NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg insists that hiring Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former media strategist is not a step toward a possible presidential run.
Howard Wolfson helped Bloomberg win a third term last year and is coming to work at City Hall as an adviser.
Wolfson has many connections to national politics, but Bloomberg says he has “no plans” to run for president in 2012.
Bloomberg said that before. And it turned out he was seriously exploring a run in 2008 while denying any interest in the White House.
Bloomberg says Wolfson was so inspired by his administration that he wanted to leave his lucrative consulting firm to work in government.
