Bloomberg donates $2 million to register black voters in key states

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Bloomberg donates $2 million to register black voters in key states
By Tim Perry and Stefan Becket
March 9, 2020 / 12:02 PM / CBS News


Washington — Fresh off his departure from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg has poured $2 million into efforts to boost turnout by African-American voters in eight key states, an indication of his intention to continue bankrolling Democratic causes ahead of November's elections.

"Voter suppression efforts across the country have been a barely disguised effort to keep Black Americans and other Democratic-leaning voters from the polls," Bloomberg said in a statement on Monday. "I've always believed we need to make it easier for all citizens to register and vote, not harder."

The $2 million donation, as first reported by The Washington Post, will go to the group Collective Future. A Bloomberg aide said the former mayor signed off on the donation before he exited the race following Super Tuesday last week, and the funds were transferred to the group on Friday. The donation has been in the works for six weeks, the aide said.

Collective Future is the nonprofit arm of The Collective PAC, whose mission is to "fix the challenge of African American underrepresentation in elected seats of power throughout our nation."

Collective Future said in a release that the funds will be used to partner with civic groups and hire field organizers to boost voter registrations in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin, with the goal of registering 500,000 black voters.

"There is a critical need for Black voter engagement across the country in the 2020 election and beyond and we are deeply grateful to Mike Bloomberg for his partnership and dedication to this critical cause," Quentin James, president of The Collective, said in a statement. "His significant financial contribution will propel our work to historic levels and we are hopeful that this game-changing investment will be supported and replicated by those who embrace the need to advance the Black community."

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[bluestarone]

1. So happy to hear this!!

TY Mike!! To me this is HUGE!!

[highplainsdem]

2. Fantastic! Thanks, Mike!

[IronLionZion]

3. Bloomberg is doing good things

I got to hand it to him. He's putting his money in the right places.

[oasis]

4. Blue Tsunami 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊q

[NurseJackie]

5. That's going to help Biden the most.

[sheshe2]

6. Some good news!

[George II]

7. Bloomberg is a good man. I really like him.

[R B Garr]

8. Now this will get him much needed goodwill. A great investment of a couple million. nt

[renate]

9. I'm so glad he didn't get take his ball and go home after the debate and Super Tuesday

Good for him. A lot of people in a similar situation would have given the Democrats a big FU on his way out the door, because he honestly got NO respect from anybody on the debate stage, or off it afterwards, really.

I admire him for not resenting what happened, for his resilience, for his keeping his word, and for his awareness that defeating Trump is essential.

[Grown2Hate]

10. THIS. This is what I keep railing about (to anyone that will listen IRL)! We need to spend

our money getting people registered, and equally as important, driving awareness to make sure people are CHECKING their registrations NOW, WAY ahead of the Election (especially in places with those sickening "voter roll purges&quot .

HELL YES. There isn't a better way to spend money this ENTIRE Election, IMHO. So happy to see this.

[Vivienne235729]

11. Mike Bloomberg is woke AF. I love that he just gets it and gets it done.

Thank you!!

[betsuni]

12. Oh, so PACs and billionaires aren't all evil?

There's a guy running for president who keeps yelling about that. I wish it would stop.

[KewlKat]

13. I hope he helps the Native Americans with there registration issues...having to

have a street address...

[SiliconValley_Dem]

14. Wow! They mean it this time! Fighting voter suppression this early is so important

Bloomberg will have earned a few opportunities to participate in Biden administration with blue ribbon task forces and other positions.

Get out the vote efforts need serious dollars and new ideas for both helping elderly poor and infirm get to polls but also connecting dots for college kids on campus very early on about what they must do to qualify to vote