Beutner mulls run for mayor

First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner, the wealthy financier brought in by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to revive his business team, said Friday he is inching closer to deciding whether to run for mayor in 2013. Daily News.

"I will decide sometime in March whether or not it is something I can do," Beutner said. "If I think I can add to the dialogue and that I could make a difference, I will do it."

Beutner, 50, came to City Hall a year ago and was given authority over the city's major economic departments and the Department of Water and Power. At the time, he said he had no interest in elective office.