Mayor Bloomberg endorses Sestak for Senate

On Tuesday, August 17, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made an appearance in Philadelphia to endorse Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak for U.S. Senate. Sestak is running against Republican (and Wall Street sweetheart) Pat Toomey to fill the seat that Arlen Specter has held since 1980.

In an email, the Sestak campaign made the following statement about the endorsement:

"In deciding to throw his support behind Joe, Mayor Bloomberg cited the independent, pragmatic mindset that Joe will bring to solving problems in the Senate -- much like he did in the military -- and Joe's approach to putting Americans back to work.

"Like Joe, the Mayor has shown he will do whatever is needed to create jobs and has focused on supporting small businesses as key to our economic recovery, while working to ensure our workforce has the skills required. Joe has crisscrossed Pennsylvania with his Plan for Pennsylvania Families, which contains specific proposals to create jobs, including small business tax credits and lending initiatives. This plan is projected to create millions of jobs and give small companies, which create 80 percent of all jobs, the opportunity to hire and expand."

Sounds good! But some have speculated that Bloomberg's recent endorsement of a new Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York might taint the endorsement.

On the other hand, I doubt that the hard-core Islamophobes would vote Democratic in any case.