Commentary: Running against Bloomberg isn't easy. I know. I was his opponent in the 2001 New York mayoral race
Three weeks before the New York mayoral election in November 2001, I got a call from Mark Mellman, the pollster working on my race against Mike Bloomberg.
"Well, I have good and bad news. The good news is that I've never had a client 20 points ahead this late in a campaign who lost. The bad news is that Bloomberg is spending a million dollars a day - not a month but a day - and gaining a
