Bloomberg left no one in charge during the blizzard while he took his winter holiday

[Hannah Bell]

Great manager of companies, cities and systems - Mayor Michael Bloomberg - left NOBODY in charge of NYC during the Bloomberg Blizzard Disaster of 2010. At least that's the impression one would get from how Bloomberg's director of communications, Howard Wolfson, responded to questions of who was in charge:

Mayor Bloomberg's aides have given conflicting accounts of who was - or was not - in charge of municipal action as the Christmas weekend blizzard bore down on the city while Hizzoner was elsewhere.

Referring to Bloomberg and to Deputy Mayor for Operations Stephen Goldsmith, our former colleague Errol Louis asked Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson on New York 1:

"If the deputy mayor and the mayor are not in New York, who's running the city? Who's running operations?"

(His deputy mayor in charge of operations Stephen Goldsmith didn't return to the city until December 27th. He also refuses to say where he was.)

Wolfson answered: "Depending on the week, whenever this was, it would be one of the other deputy mayors."

Louis followed up: "Do you know who it was?"

Wolfson: "I do not."

Yesterday, a mayoral spokesman said there is no such City Hall weekly rotation and that Bloomberg was fully in charge and in "constant contact" while he was ... elsewhere.

What kind of contact - phone, email, text message, teleconference - was there between the mayor and aides while he was ... elsewhere? How constant was it? And where exactly was ... elsewhere? The spokesman declined to say.

And that's not good enough.

What's known about Bloomberg's whereabouts and actions is that he attended midnight Mass late Friday and was next seen in the city more than 36 hours later, at 2:45 p.m. on the day after Christmas.

In between, the National Weather Service upgraded its warning to a blizzard level, the administration failed to declare a snow emergency and the Sanitation Department mobilized and embarked on its failed plowing effort.

Where was Bloomberg for those 36 hours the Daily News cannot account for?

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[Hardrada]

1. A Case for the Twilight Zone!

[Tace]

2. Bloomberg Owns A Vacation Home In Bermuda

There's a good chance that's where he was, although it's chilly in Bermuda in late December.

[Graybeard]

3. Bloomie suffering "third-term-itis".

Arrogance. New Yorkers voted twice for term-limits but Bloomie had that overturned. He feels he can do anything he wants and get away with it. Are we finally seeing the emperor has no clothes?

[KoKo]

4. Bloomberg attended Midnight Mass? He's Jewish...why would he do that?

"What's known about Bloomberg's whereabouts and actions is that he attended midnight Mass late Friday and was next seen in the city more than 36 hours later, at 2:45 p.m. on the day after Christmas."