Who Needs New Hampshire? The Bloomberg Campaign Is Ramping Up in Massachusetts.
William T Wade Jr/ZUMA While the rest of the Democratic field frantically barnstormed New Hampshire on Saturday, a field director for Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign was opening his pitch to a room full of volunteers about an hour beyond New Hampshire’s southern boundary, in Massachusetts. This time of the year in New England, presidential organizing…
Bloomberg and Steyer Make Top 10 List of Biggest Super-PAC Donors Ever
On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court opened the super-PAC era with its 5-4 ruling in the Citizens United case. While the decision left the limits on donations to politicians in place, it blew open caps on outside spending—money given to groups that campaign for or against candidates without officially being part of their campaigns.…
Bloomberg Is Saying All the Right Things About Party Unity—For Now
Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Michael Bloomberg hasn’t been a Democrat for long. The billionaire White House hopeful began his adult life in the party of FDR, but he switched to the GOP when he ran for mayor of New York City in 2001, winning the endorsement of Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg later became an independent…
Michael Bloomberg Has a Toxic Legacy on Lead
Democratic presidential candidate former New York City mayor.Justin Sullivan/Getty This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. When Cordell Cleare went to meet the mayor of New York City for the first time in winter 2003, she expected to be disappointed. The Harlem mother had spent…
Bloomberg Just Bought CityLab—and Put Half Its Reporters Out of a Job
Rick Scuteri/AP Journalism has had a rough year full of layoffs across the country, and Bloomberg Media, the company owned by the latest entrant in the 2020 Democratic primary, just made life worse for a handful of reporters. Earlier this week, Bloomberg Media announced its first acquisition in more than a decade, buying CityLab, an…
Bloomberg Is Starting His Campaign With A Big Asset—His Gun-Control Group’s Email List
Michael Bloomberg speaks at a Moms Demand Action rally in Nashua, NH, in 2018.Cheryl Senter/AP Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 Democratic race Sunday with a potent asset: The vast trove of email addresses amassed by Moms Demand Action, the nonpartisan gun control advocacy organization hosted under the umbrella of…