He’ll be Silent Mike.
Mayor Bloomberg, who doesn’t usually shrink from commenting on just about anything, is promising not to second-guess his successor, Bill de Blasio — who was elected on a pledge of taking the city in a different direction.
“I will not criticize,” Bloomberg said Friday on his weekly WOR radio appearance. “When you’re a new mayor, you just don’t need a previous mayor criticizing.”
“And Rudy [Giuliani] never once did. And when a few people on his staff probably said something, he stopped it right away.”
Bloomberg, who took over shortly after 9/11, said he’s handing over a far different place to his Democratic successor. “We’re going to turn over a city that financially is in great shape, crime and education and housing, traffic and all those things,” he said.
But critics point out that municipal unions under expired contracts force the next mayor to deal with years of retroactive pay that could cost billions.