Micheal Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia, will serve as Bloomberg's national political chair.

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“Mike Bloomberg is my kind of leader,” Nutter said in a release issued by Team Bloomberg Friday morning. “He cares about the drug crisis, gun violence, the environment and access to high-quality healthcare for all Americans.”

...That’s the messaging Bloomberg’s camp is hoping will resonate with voters who might be wary of a candidate who became a Republican to run for office in 2001, and owes his political career to Rudy Giuliani — then the New York mayor helping the city heal after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and now a national defender of Trump....

Bloomberg called Nutter “an innovative mayor who made one of America’s biggest cities stronger and safer.” He will head to Philadelphia on Saturday to open his first field office in the state there.

He will then go to Detroit and Milwaukee, both in battleground states, to set up headquarters there as well. This is all being done in the service of generally skipping the first four voting states and instead focusing on Super Tuesday.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/20/michae-bloomberg-announces-nutter-endorsement-pennsylvania-088609

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1. this gets my attention. i was at a speech nutter gave once.

i was at a conference for ceramics educators in philly several years ago.
nutter was the key note. he talked about a trade school there. iirc, it was an old school that was revitalized under nutter.
i cant recall the name and a quick search just now didnt bring it up.

anyway, it had a culinary school, which may have been there, but they added other crafts, like woodworking, textiles and pottery and such.
it really blossomed. but the thing that actually had me in tears was that filling the school w beauty was a core principal.
it was saturated w art and flowers, and as much beauty as they could shoehorn into the building.

he is a smart man, and this is just the kind of healing that should really be a much bigger priority in these fucked up times, and those to come.
sorta feel that way about bloomie. i feel he has a global perspective that goes beyond law making.

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3. Maybe this?

Maybe not, that was just from a quick search. This Old House is desperate for young people to enter the trades and started Generation Next. This focus is something that would definitely work in PA, MI, and WI and we don't win without those states. This may be a bit premature but I'm wondering if a Bloomberg/Nutter ticket might be able to beat IMPOTUS/VP Space Force.

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4. def not it. i will dig.

the conferences are all out there. i will see if i can find it.

i wouldnt go that far, but he would make a hella cabinet member. sec of ed would be an evolutionary leap.

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2. I'm glad to see so much focus on PA, MI and WI.

Without them, we lose.