For a man who spent $70 million getting elected mayor of New York (and contemplated dropping $500 million of his own cash on a presidential campaign), billionaire Michael Bloomberg's gift of $250,000 to the redistricting ballot initiative backed by Gov. Schwarzenegger amounts to little more than loose change from the Gracie Mansion sofa (Except it wouldn't be Gracie--Bloomberg doesn't live at the official mayoral residence). But it's a nice endorsement for the initiative campaign and the governor, who needs to portray his redistricting proposal as truly bipartisan. Bloomberg is a former Democrat, former Republican, and current independent (Note to Californians: independent is New Yorkese for "Decline to State"). Democrats are already noting that Bloomberg's own redistricting efforts in New York differed in content from the California initiative.