Are They Hiring?

Chartered flights on privates jets to exotic locales around the world, first-class cuisine at some of the finest restaurants in New York City, enormous bonuses funneled quietly into your bank account, all-expense paid apartmentsm and all you-can-eat spreads at the office. Is this a summary of an episode of Robin Leach's "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"? No, rather it is a description of some of the perks that are lavished on campaign aides by New York City's billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

An article in today's New York Times details these and other delicious luxuries that Mayor Bloomberg routinely bestows on his political advisers and others who have the luck of working for him. The piece notes that with Bloomberg seeking a third term in office later this year, he appears eager and willing to spend over $80 million (on top of the over $100 million he spent to win in 2001 and get re-elected in 2005).

Is there a site where I send my resume, kind of like change.gov? I have visions of sushi at Nobu and summer weekends in East Hampton dancing in my head.