Bloomberg was worth $54.1B in November. Now it's $61.5B

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10. Thanks for sharing these links. I have read a lot about Stop and Frisk and his enduring defense of

it as well as his claim, utterly unfounded, that it brought down the crime rate. A few months before he apologized to the AA community he’d so impacted, according to NYT, he was still unapologetic about the policy and, in fact, laughed at the idea of “an apology tour.”

Apparently, what changed was that he decided to run.

Personally, I don’t trust him, don’t see him as a savior, and find the idea that he can buy the nomination sad. It is also true that he is a media mogul, so a huge advantage there. I’d rather a
Sanders presidency if my guy can’t get in.

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OPINION
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
STOP AND FRISK
A few Sundays ago, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg popped his head into the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn and said something I genuinely didn't see coming. The trip came amid swirling rumors that Bloomberg was, once again, considering a run for president in 2020, this time as a Democrat. Those of us who follow politics closely have seen this movie before: Just about every four years, Bloomberg very publicly ponders the prospect of running for president, only to decide at the last minute that he doesn't want to do it. This time, though, is different.

Bloomberg, like other billionaires, has been vocal in recent months about exactly how little he likes the proposals from Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders to tax extreme wealth. He, like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is apparently gravely concerned that the Democratic Party is moving too far left, and doesn't think demonizing the rich is going to get us anywhere. Which is why Bloomberg decided to go to a megachurch in Brooklyn and tell the mostly black audience he had changed his mind: The most controversial policy of his mayoral tenure, stop-and-frisk, had been a mistake after all.

This was a policy Bloomberg had defended tooth and nail for years. In fact, he had gone to that same church in 2012 and declared unequivocally that stop-and-frisk saves lives, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary and objections from racial justice and civil liberties advocates who argued, correctly, that the policy was unconstitutional.

But when I saw what Bloomberg said, I thought one thing immediately: This guy really wants to be the president.

https://www.newsweek.com/bloomberg-defended-stop-frisk-years-now-hes-sorry-give-me-break-opinion-1474523