NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is petitioning to create another party.
The billionaire mayor is a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent. He has already secured two ballot lines for this year's election - the Republican line and the Independence Party line.
But his campaign is collecting signatures for something called the Jobs and Education Party.
It's essentially a marketing trick.
Bloomberg is already running on two lines, so the words "Jobs and Education" would just be added to one of the existing lines.
The ballot would say "Republican/Jobs and Education" or "Independence/Jobs and Education."
Jobs and schools are top concerns for city voters.
Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson says it's another way to communicate with voters.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
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