Two Major Bloomberg Players Not Bound for the Ultimate Reward

We have recent movement on the fun party game that is called “Who Gets To Live in Bloomberg Valhalla.” The thing about working in City Hall is that it is actually very hard work. New York City is, obviously, a giant pain in the neck. Mike Bloomberg and his long enforcing hand, Patti Harris, are detail monsters. And you know, this system works! Say what you will about New York City, and we have, and Lord knows we don’t agree with all the choices coming out of City Hall (it serves the privileged class of the City first and best, for starters), but the trash gets picked up and the cops aren’t incessantly murdering people and there are no zombies roaming the streets. And for their attention to minutia and their ability to roll with the very real terrors of City Hall, a few long-serving staff get rewarded with post-service jobs at the stately, long-lunch-friendly Bloomberg Family Foundation, which has recently retooled how it gives money in the City. From the outside, one might have thought that long-serving deputy mayors Kevin Sheekey and Edward Skyler were going to easily shuffle off to that gravy train on the Upper East Side. Well, Sheekey got halfway there-to a job at Bloomberg LP. But Skyler, shockingly, is off for the worst flacking job in the history of finance: mouthpiecing for Citibank’s “global public affairs.” (In short, their global public affairs “kind of suck” right now.) That’s way down the list of things one would want to do, far beneath “chilling uptown and funding programs with Bill Gates.” What happened?