David Broder: Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid with Mayor Bloomberg
Looks like we're not the only ones fed up with polarized politics.
New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.
Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to "go beyond tokenism" in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122901476_pf.html
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