Bloomberg and his possibility of running

[Honeycombe8]

He backed 25 Democrats in the mid-terms, and 21 of them won (most of them women). Impressive. He donated $100 Million for the mid-terms.

[nycbos]

1. He also donated 1.3 billion to Johns Hopkins for financial aid.

So the school can be need blind.

[msongs]

2. no billionaires thanks. they pay the $$ and want their reward. nt

[Power 2 the People]

3. +1

Especially ones that switch parties so often like Bloomberg.

[Honeycombe8]

4. He seems to fall in line w/the Democratic Party Platform. Just as much as Bernie does...

if not more so.

[Power 2 the People]

7. Stop & Frisk

No thanks.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Presidents don't deal with state or municipal law enforcement regulations.

I remember the s&f issue, but not the details, since I don't live there.

[Power 2 the People]

11. It was very bad. Unlawful search and seizure that dehumanized and targeted minorities.

from 2002 to 2011, black and Latino residents made up close to 90 percent of people stopped, and about 88 percent of stops – more than 3.8 million – were of innocent New Yorkers. Even in neighborhoods that are predominantly white, black and Latino New Yorkers face the disproportionate brunt. For example, in 2011, Black and Latino New Yorkers made up 24 percent of the population in Park Slope, but 79 percent of stops. This, on its face, is discriminatory.

Bloomberg flows with the political wind. As a New Yorker I can tell you that Bloomberg talks a good game but he will switch back to Republican if the office he wants is held by a Democrat.

[link:https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-facts|]

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Lol. You HAVE to be joking.

Yeah, Bernie wants to raise the retirement age and “cut entitlements” and quotes Churchill while doing it.

And Bernie wants to raise the retirement age.

A billionaire wants YOU to do more with less. Good luck with that.

To reduce the deficit we must cut entitlements

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Mike_Bloomberg_Social_Security.htm

Q: Your thoughts on the sequester?
BLOOMBERG: Winston Churchill once said, "You can always depend on America to do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities." We've had a democracy for 235-odd years and it works in the end, and that's what's in important. Sequestering is here. It will go on for a while. It's not going to be the end of the world as we know it. And everybody was saying, "Oh, the worst-case scenario is exactly what we're going to implement." And now they're into the real world and they'll try to find ways to do more with less, and then hopefully Congress will come together and modify sequestering to cut things back where we can afford it and not where we can't. And keep in mind, no program to reduce the deficit makes any sense whatsoever unless you address the issue of entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, interest payment on the debt, which you can't touch, and defense spending. Everything else is tiny compared to that.

[Honeycombe8]

10. Oh, yikes. I didn't know that. That's not a Democratic Party position at all. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

5. OMFG. NO. Fuck. NO. Just. Fuck. No.

n/t

[Honeycombe8]

6. LOL. You really need to learn how to say how you truly feel.