Johnny still hanging around

From The Politicker:

He’s out of office, no longer running for election, and supposed to be weighing jobs in the private sector, but that isn’t enough to stop ex-comptroller and unsuccessful mayoral candidate John Liu from ending his perennial politicking.

Indeed, Mr. Liu, who was known to log a dozen stops across the five boroughs during an ordinary day, seems to be having trouble giving up the trappings of elected office, continuing his break-neck schedule of events even after his term as comptroller ended on December 31.

On Friday evening, Politicker spotted Mr. Liu, now back from a family vacation in California, attending a swearing-in ceremony for Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron. Mr. Liu, who was greeted warmly by those in attendance, was joined by a longtime campaign aide who insisted she was off the clock and simply volunteering for Mr. Liu.

Over the weekend, Mr. Liu was off again on a four-borough tour–relayed to reporters by an emailed public schedule he has continued to release via his campaign address “press@liunewyork.com”–also compiled by the same loyal aide.

“I’m not going to have a public schedule everyday. But we’ll have one this weekend, really not much during the weekdays, but evenings and weekends,” Mr. Liu told Politicker Friday when asked about his peculiar post-election schedule.