Craig Johnson

Here's another interesting tidbit from Mayor Bloomberg's Q&A with reporters today, as passed along by the industrious Adam Lisberg of our City Hall Bureau.

Asked if he'd get involved in any of this year's races for state Senate or Assembly, the mayor said he mostly would not -- but he did single out one lawmaker, Democratic State Sen. Craig Johnson (who is currently under fire from the AFL-CIO along with other Senate Dems):

"Generally, I have said that I will stay out of those. There are a handful, however, where I've already told the people that are running that I will support them. The courageous act of standing up for charter schools, for example, Craig Johnson out on Long Island. He was the only one that stood up about a month and a half ago. And lemme tell you, I care about our kids. And I think that's exactly the kind of guy we should have here. I don't necessarily agree with him on everything. But that's a seminal issue. Anybody can vote against giving our kids better education. I just find it unfathomable. And I will support him because of that one vote..."
This is interesting not so much in that Bloomberg says he'd back Johnson (and maybe others) on the basis of their support for education. That's been a bedrock issue in his administration. He's also been a longtime fan of nonpartisan voting.

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