But since his re-election in November, Bloomberg has been acting even more like a Rino. Now that he doesn't need to Republican party for campaign support -- and since he's not interested in running for higher office -- Bloomberg is behaving more like a Democrat. And a liberal one at that.
As the NY Times lays out, Bloomberg over the past couple months has:
- personally donated $100 million for stem cell research
- called for tougher gun control laws
- clashed with Republican Gov. George Pataki over NYC schools funding
- considered supporting a Democratic challenger to an incumbant GOP state senator