In the most interesting electronic artifact of the mayoral race to hit reporters’ inboxes yesterday, the press shop of the Democratic front-runner, Fernando Ferrer, substituted for its usual barrage of statements and public schedules the campaign’s version of “What I Did on My Summer Vacation.”

The dispatch, sent by Mr. Ferrer’s press secretary, Christy Setzer, mocked Mayor Bloomberg’s appearance at an event announcing the youthful winners of the New York Post’s Summer Reading Essay Contest, and purported to contain the submission of “one very special entrant.”

Excerpts from the essay, entitled “Mike’s Summer Adventure,” include:

“My name is Mike Bloomberg, and this summer I had a super adventure! You see, I’m the mayor of New York City, and that means I get to do lots of fun things. One super-fun thing I did this summer was try to get the Olympics to come to my city! I thought, it would be like a big party! …

“So I worked very, very hard to bring the Olympics to my city, and oh my gosh, it was so much fun! I traveled across the world – I went to Greece, and Ghana (that’s in Africa!), and Singapore, and Germany. I met lots of celebrities, and went to great parties. …

“But when I told everyone about my great idea, with the stadium and the Olympics, no one was very fun. They said that we had to do things like build schools – because right now they’re too crowded – and pay teachers and police officers more. …It’s so much more fun to ride around in my helicopter or stay in my big house in Bermuda.”

Ms. Setzer said the dispatch, while not written by Mr. Ferrer, was approved by “the campaign.” She called the essay a lighthearted take on serious issues at the center of the mayoral race.

Less amused was the Bloomberg camp. A spokesman for the campaign, Stuart Loeser, said in a statement yesterday: “Although the winners of today’s contest can write better than the Ferrer campaign, the Ferrer campaign wins first prize for doing the best job at embarrassing [sic] their candidate with this pathetic attack.”

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Intensifying a sparring match begun during Sunday’s Democratic candidates’ debate, Rep. Anthony Weiner yesterday stepped up his criticisms of the speaker of the City Council, Gifford Miller, faulting Mr. Miller for an apparent unwillingness to cut waste from the city budget.

While unveiling his “Small Business Bill of Rights” at Elm Drugs in the Stuyvesant Town section of Manhattan, Mr. Weiner said that if Mr. Miller – who dismissed Mr. Weiner’s proposals to cut 5% from the city budget as “gimmicks” on Sunday – could not find ways to eliminate waste, he should “get out of the way” to make room for a mayoral candidate who can. The pugnacious congressman also took a swipe at Fernando Ferrer. Mr. Weiner said he couldn’t answer questions about how his policy proposals differed from the former Bronx borough president’s because Mr. Ferrer had yet to come up with any ideas to compare them to.

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The Latina Political Action Committee, an upstart group of Hispanic women, endorsed Mayor Bloomberg for re-election yesterday. The group’s outreach coordinator, Raquel Batista, said the vote was close, with Mr. Bloomberg winning just one more vote than he needed to capture the group’s endorsement. The Democratic front-runner, Fernando Ferrer, who is the only Hispanic candidate in the race, came in a close second. “We believe that folks went with Bloomberg because of the leadership he’s shown in New York City,” Ms. Batista said yesterday afternoon in City Hall Park. Mr. Bloomberg thanked the group of 80 women for their apoyo – support – and said he was dedicated to making New York more accessible to New Yorkers who don’t speak English, as well as to improving schools and creating more opportunities for women in business.