He was the perfect mayor for those turbulent times.
"Each is promising, but none is perfect," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said of the design entries.
And that seems to be the part of the campaign he likes best: listening to his supporters tell him how he'd be the perfect mayor, without having to do the hard work of raising money and campaigning, or taking abuse from the other candidates.
Their anger found a perfect target in Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
But for now, it's intriguing to watch the newly tone-perfect mayor, and to ponder how the last eight years might have been.
And it is possible that he's a perfect guy to be mayor at a time of scarcity.
He has moved up with such force going back to his days with Costa Mesa National Little League, when he pitched a perfect game in the Mayor's Cup.
I thought it would have been a perfect time for both the mayor and the governor to have been demonstrating their concern and leadership and supporting Dr. Brown.
The young developer and the mayor seemed a perfect match, publicly heaping compliments on each other at the 2014 groundbreaking for the Trump Bay Street project.
Mayor Booker is a perfect example of a family man who wants to help others.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a "perfect blue sky morning" had turned into "the blackest of nights" on 9/11.
