Mayor Bloomberg was “very critical” of Gov. Paterson during a private powwow with Republican leaders yesterday and said former Mayor Rudy Giuliani would make a “great governor,” The Post has learned.
“He was very, very critical of Paterson,” said one source who attended the meeting.
“He said he thinks if Paterson’s the [Democratic] nominee [in 2010], Giuliani would have to run. He said he’d spoken to Rudy a while ago and said [the former Republican mayor] was thinking about it but hadn’t made up his mind yet.”
Bloomberg, who is courting Republican leaders for his re-election campaign this year, also said he thought “Rudy would beat Paterson” handily, another source said, citing recent poll numbers.
Polls conducted by Sienna College and Quinnipiac University showed Giuliani crushing Paterson.