Eva Moskowitz Says She May Run For Mayor

Not a surprise to anybody paying attention to the "charter wars" - Eva Moskowitz is creating her own little fiefdoms across the city to use as power bases for a future run for mayor:

Charter school maven Eva Moskowitz may have a mayoral run in her future.

“I might run for mayor some day,” she said on the John Gambling radio show. “But right now, I’m very, very focused on educating the 10,000 kids that will be with us in 95 business days.”

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“I thought I was leaving elected office and politics in order to focus on schooling, but as you know schooling turns out to be frankly even more political than politics,” she said. “I may [run for office]. I believe public service is incredibly important. But I also love the kids.”

Moskowitz, who has clashed with Mayor de Blasio since he took office, said her current focus is expanding her Success Academy network.

“I’m very, very focused on not only creating world class schools at scale, but changing the public policy in this country that every day prevents children from getting access to the American dream,” she said.

She'll have the money to try and make herself look good in ads and some segment of the press might be behind her (say the NY Post if they're still in business when she runs.)

 

So I would never count her out.

 

Thing is, even among many charter people she's about as popular as small pox.

 

She's abrasive, arrogant,and is so devoid of attractive personality traits that she makes Andrew Cuomo seem like Regis Philbin.

 

I have no doubt she plans on running for mayor.

Whether she can actually be a serious contender after all the controversy is another matter.

But who knows?

Who'd have thought the same Andy Cuomo who had to slink away after the Carl McCall mess would have 87% approval ratings in the first year of his first term as governor?