The Mayor has received a total of $4.1 million in such funds in his last three mayoral bids.

Mr. Thompson said he would probably form a committee next year to begin raising money and building interest for a possible mayoral bid in 2009.

But the comptroller's office would for the first time give her a citywide base from which she could begin a mayoral bid.

Mr. Miller, who failed in his mayoral bid, will be forced by term limits to step down next month.

He soon was put in charge of Joseph G. Armstrong's 1913 mayoral bid.

Defying the views of politicians with whom he disagreed, like those who deemed his mayoral bid doomed, was also in character.

After the unsuccessful mayoral bid, Hicks ran for city council and won.

Lynch served as campaign manager for Dinkins's mayoral bid in 1989.

But those explanations ignore the more obvious one: that he is rewarding the many police officers and firefighters for supporting his mayoral bid.

He promised yesterday that he would not use what was left of the money from his mayoral bid to finance the campaign for public advocate.