Running for Mayor – and Boy are Their Legs Tired!

Michael Bloomberg and Bill Thompson aren’t the only two politicians running for mayor.

Seven additional candidates – representing such groups as the Rent is Too Damn High Party and the Green Party – are on the ballot. Others, like Jonny Porkpie, the self-proclaimed burlesque mayor of New York, are campaigning for write-in votes. Some are dead serious, while others are playing the race for laughs.

(A version of this story originally appeared on “219 West

,” a monthly TV news magazine show broadcast on CUNY-TV)