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November 3, 2005 -- A mayor wannabe was arrested yesterday for making death threats to a local political reporter, police said.

Christopher X. Brodeur, 38, who mounted a failed campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination, was busted at his Lower East Side home yesterday for allegedly leaving the threats on the office voice mail of New York Observer reporter Ben Smith.

Brodeur was charged with aggravated harassment and resisting arrest, because he allegedly refused to let cops cuff him.

Authorities believe that Brodeur left the messages in retaliation for a column Smith posted on his blog, The Politicker, on the paper's Web site.

In a message left last month, Brodeur said, "I could shoot you in the f- - -ing face. I'd be a hero like Bernhard Goetz," a law-enforcement source said.

Brodeur has a history of making threats. Some of his other targets have been other members of the media and officials from the mayor's press office.

"We are also investigating similar threats against another reporter," said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne.