Maybe he's changed? Maybe his niece made this personal?
Granted, my family of origin aren't wealthy republican donors who supported Bush, but they are republicans who have changed since 2008. They've apologized for supporting Prop. 8. The thing that got through was facing people whom they claim to love and yet voted to discriminate against. I hope his niece has helped him to "see" that he isn't her loving uncle when he supports her being treated as a second class citizen. That and the tide has turned, and he wants to be on winning team. Just my hopeful $0.02, feel free to toss it.

Such a great dance. Bloomberg's speech was fine, but (as I harped on yesterday) all these changes now are due to a genuine Democrat having nearly toppled him the last election. NYC Controller Bill Thompson, a longtime vocal supporter of marriage equality, came within 4.5% of beating him.

Media titan Bloomberg had spent $100 million of his own $17 billion fortune to win another term. Thompson relied on ordinary political donors to raise 10% as much.

Thompson (and a bunch of excited NYC Democratic candidates happy to finally smell some blood in the water) intends to run again in 2013. So yeah, Bloomberg's gonna be making nice here and there, since he may another term if he can.

Don't get me wrong. Bloomberg's okay on a lot of stuff, especially guiding the city through a downturn with a minimum of pandering to voters' pocketbook fears (we should have been so lucky around here), and for a media tycoon mayor NYC could (and probably will) do worse someday.

But his turnaround on marriage equality stems pure and simple from the hard work of Bill Thompson to throw a genuine political scare into him.

Oops. May *try* another term if he can. Fuck.

His tax bill will always trump your rights. Bloomberg got what he really wanted this session, non-extension of the millionaires' tax. Funny for a guy who actually lives on a tax haven(Bermuda) 3-5 days of the week.

hey is that Girl Talk he's dancing to. that's some fun dance musac.

Kim @1 - I just want him to own up, if that is the case: "I was wrong, I've seen the light, I'm not a politico pandering to whomever I need at the moment." I also don't see dates on much of this evidence of past wrongs, so I'm willing to let those dogs lie IF he will step up and be a force moving forward on equality issues.

My sister worked in catering before he was elected mayor, and her company did an event for him. He didn't tip anyone. At all. That told me all I needed to know about Bloomberg, and my opinion hasn't changed with any new evidence. It's nice to see his speech, but I suspect he just did the political calculus and it came up positive for marriage equality this time.

The funny thing is, no self-respecting Republican would so much as give him the time of day. He's so anti-gun he makes Pelosi look rational. The guy's a joke.

My two cents: 1) Boo! 2) Boo! 3) Don't care. 4) Iffy. This is expected Republican behavior, and while I am not thrilled, I do have a soft spot for Libertarians. 5) Don't care. 6) Don't care. 7) Boo! 8) Booooo!!! It's the check that gets me... as if they don't already have 7 million dollars.

His speech was nice and all and if it helps get gay marriage passed in NY, yay. But I'll believe a change of heart (perfectly possible) when he *also* changes where he puts his money.

Damn, he's fine!

What? No, not Bloomberg. The go-go boy on the train.