Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. Elected to office in 2001, in his first term, Mayor Bloomberg cut crime; created jobs; unleashed a boom of affordable housing; implemented ambitious public health strategies, including the successful ban on smoking in restaurants and bars; gained control of the nation's largest school district; and improved the efficiency of government. In 2005, he was re-elected by a diverse coalition of support. In his second term, while stabilizing the City's finances and making strategic infrastructure investments to stimulate economic growth, he has taken on a number of new challenges. He launched an innovative program to combat poverty. He's undertaken a far-reaching campaign to fight global warming. And as co-founder of a bipartisan coalition of more than 300 mayors from every region of the country, he is working to keep illegal guns out of the hands of criminals and off city streets.