Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said today his boss, Mayor Bloomberg, has not yet settled on a strategy for the upcoming battle for control of the Senate, leaving the door open to the possibility that the billionaire mayor might yet write a big check for one side or the other.

“I wouldn’t rule anything out,” Wolfson said.

Following Bloomberg’s announcement yesterday that he will be supporting Democratic Sen. Craig Johnson, who is a target of the AFL-CIO for (among other things) his support of lifting the charter cap, I asked Wolfson if the mayor’s relationship with the Senate GOP has officially come to an end.

“We’ve done a lot of very good work with Senate Republicans and we have a great delegation of city Senate Republicans that we will be supporting unequivocally,” Wolfson responded.

“But the mayor has always said that’s he’s going to support somebody regardless of party whether or not they do what’s in the best interest of the city and that’s the mayor sole criteria.”

“I think what we are looking at is to see how this process unfolds. Again, we are certainly going to support Marty Golden; he’s a great senator. Andy Lanza is a great senator, Frank Padavan – they’re all great senators that the mayor is going to support.”

“If the mayor makes a decision that he’s going to support one conference or another, we haven’t made that decision yet. And again, that really does depend on what happens in this process.”

You can catch my full Wolfson interview when “Capital Tonight” airs this evening at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

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