A Green return to New York City government?

No, this article is not about New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's campaigns the city more environmentally friendly, it is about former New York City Public Advocate and Air America Radio President Mark J. Green considering a return to electoral politics.

Green was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1980 and for the United States Senate in 1986.  He served as the city's Counsumer Affairs Comissioner from 1900 to 1993, before being elected Public Advocate and resigning to hold that office. Green served as Public Advocate from 1994 - 2002.  While serving as Public Advocate, Green lost the three-way 1998 Democratic Party Primary election for United States Senate Seat currently held by Democrat Charles E. Schumer.  in 2001 Green was term-limited out as Public Advocate and ran as the Democratic Party's candidate for Mayor against Michael R. Bloomberg, who at the time was a Republican, a race that he lost.

Most recently, Green ran unsuccessfully in the 2006 Democratic Primary for Attorney General, a race he lost to Andrew Cuomo.  The day after losing that race, he announced his retirement from electoral politics saying, he would "never run again."

But on Saturday Green indicated that he may have changed his mind, in an interview with The New York Times, he said that he is seriously considering running next year in what is already a five-way Democratic Primary for the only elected office he's ever held, New York City Public Advocate:

I am seriously thinking again of running for public advocate.  [Since leaving office,] I realized how much I missed public service.  Events have altered the landscape, like the term-limits battle, like the economy. The stakes seem higher and perhaps, as a result, supporters are now more numerous and encouraging.

Candidates who have already announced that they are seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for Public Advocate in 2009 include Queens Council Members John C. Liu and Eric N. Gioia, Brooklyn Council Member Bill deBlasio, civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel and Manhattan Assembly Member Adam Clayton Powell, IV.