Bloomberg leaves the Republican Party!
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has left the GOP and switched to unaffiliated status.
Gosh, if he runs, it’s going to be so exciting! A third-party candidate with BILLIONS (all he earned himself) to spend. Oh, wait, this isn’t good news for Hillary. Definitely not good news. New York. New York. Forget about the money issue. They share virtually the same constituency… Not good. He’s going to be like a Ralph Nader to the Dems, only more massive.
Michael Rubens Bloomberg
birthday: February 14, 1942 (Valentine’s Day!)
that makes his age 65 years old
electrical engineering degree from Johns Hopkins University, 1964
MBA from Harvard Business School
worked for Salomon Brothers
started own company, Bloomberg LP
settled a few sex-discrimination suits
first wife: Susan Brown
two daughters: Emma and Georgina
(Georgina Bloomberg in Born Rich with Ivanka Trump)
current girlfriend: Diana Taylor (stylish director at Wolfensohn & Co., former state superintendent of banks — she’s got a brain!)
TV guest appearances:
Law & Order
The Apprentice
All My Children (afternoon soap opera)
asked by New York Magazine if he ever smoked pot:
Quote: “You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.”
POLITICAL CAREER
was a lifelong Democrat, but in 2001 joined the Republican Party because the Democratic mayoral primary was too crowded
got Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement
2002
successfully threw the first pitch at a Mets game
threw the ball into the dirt later for the Yankees
net worth according to Fortune magazine: $13 billion
annual salary as New York mayor: one dollar
– rides the subway to work
– raised property taxes to help solve fiscal crisis after 9/11
– enacted the bans on smoking and trans fat in New York
– major crime has dropped 30% in NYC during his term
– supports gay marriage, abortion rights, gun control, stem cell research
2006
performed Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” at a party with staffers