New York votes for its mayor in a week's time and the contest is turning mean. Michael Bloomberg , the incumbent and the city's richest man, is squaring off against Bill Thompson , the Democratic underdog, over who is better equipped to guide the US financial capital out of recession with a minimum of pain.
With the challenger struggling to overtake the mayor's double-digit opinion poll lead, some of his supporters now want to turn the November 3 poll into a referendum on Wall Street by targeting Mr Bloomberg as a candidate of the rich who is aloof from the economic worries of most New Yorkers.
