Dick Parsons For Mayor-Vintner

Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici speculates on a possible Dick Parsons mayoralty of New York City — contrasting him with Bloomberg — in the wake of his denial to Joe Nocera in the New York Times:

”Both men, obviously, have run large media companies. Both are Republicans who could easily be Democrats. Both started their current jobs in the aftermath of disasters (9/11 for Bloomberg; the AOL-Time Warner merger for Parsons) and soothed jittery constituencies with a calm, wry personal manner.”

Nocera’s

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