Mayor Bloomberg is taking some heat for the full-color mailer he sent out to NYC residents that slams Albany for trying to balance the state budget for “cutting billions of dollars” from the city and touts his own efforts to hold the line on taxes, create jobs and protect “vital services.”

Those claims didn’t sit too well with NYC Minority Leader Jimmy Oddo, who released a letter he sent to the mayor after receiving the mailer, in which he asked if “protecting vital services like police and fire” means the mayor’s own budget plans to close 20 fire companies is now off the table.

“Respectfully, I ask that the appropriate individual within your administration publicly state whether the aforementioned direct mail piece does, in fact, signal a change in administration policy eliminating the threat of closing any fire companies in the FY2012 budget,” Oddo wrote.”

Bloomberg has made clear his displeasure with the state budget, taking the unusual step of spending his own cash on a budget-related TV ad designed as pushback to union spots that criticize him.

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