Republican leaders are still reaping the dividends — $230,000 to be exact — of their decision allowing Mayor Bloomberg to run on the GOP ballot line in 2009.
Records show that the mayor made another round of generous contributions to the city’s five Republican county committees this year, in some cases accounting for nearly 100 percent of their “housekeeping” account collections over the last six months.
The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island committees each received $50,000 in March, while Manhattan took in $30,000. A source said that the Brooklyn GOP, which has yet to file its latest campaign forms, also received $50,000.
Bloomberg was registered as an independent three years ago when he asked Republican leaders for legally required sign-offs so he could run on their line for a third term.
Initially, some balked on the grounds he had abandoned the party in 2007 and was back only for the sake of political expediency.
But to help grease the skids, he delivered $375,000 to the five county housekeeping committees that year.
Since 2009, he’s contributed $815,000.