Thoroughly depressing New York Times piece on Saturday about Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s pricey run for reelection:

To hold on to his job as mayor this year, he has spent $65 million of his own money, according to his latest financial disclosure report, released on Friday.

Even for a man whose vast financial advantages have redefined New York City elections — and smothered his lesser-financed opponents — the amount of spending is, by any measure, staggering.

Mr. Bloomberg has spent about 40 percent more than he had at the same point in his 2005 campaign, and twice what he had spent by this point in his first run for office in 2001. Each of those races was, at the time, the most expensive municipal campaign in United States history.

The mayor has spent 16 times as much as his Democratic rival, William C. Thompson Jr., who is still scrambling to raise money from donors. And at his current pace, Mr. Bloomberg is on track to easily spend more than $100 million by Election Day on Nov. 3.

I don’t care how good a mayor Bloomberg has been. That’s flat-out obscene.

(P.S. I don’t even wanna talk about Bloomberg’s rigging the system to end-run term limits in The Big Town. That’s exponentially more obscene.)