New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg will host a fund-raiser for Senator Joseph Lieberman, at the Mayor’s residence, on November 1. He will also speak at a fund-raiser on Lieberman’s behalf in Chicago on October 25. Bloomberg was elected and re-elected Mayor as the nominee of the Republican and Indepencence Parties. Lieberman, as is well known, is running for re-election as an independent candidate.

There has been some speculation recently that Mayor Bloomberg will run for president as an independent in 2008. Bloomberg’s assistance for Senator Lieberman tends to show that Bloomberg is friendly to centrist politicians who run independently of the two major parties.