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Reading List:
✓ “In 2002, the first year Bloomberg was mayor, 97,296 of these stops were recorded. They surged during Bloomberg’s tenure to a peak of 685,724 stops in 2011, near the end of his third term. Nearly 90 percent of the people who were stopped and frisked were innocent of any wrongdoing”: You Must Never Vote for Bloomberg by Charles M. Blow (New York Times)
✓ Michael Bloomberg’s Right-Wing Views on Foreign Policy Make Him a Perfect Candidate for the Republican Nomination by Mehdi Hasan (The Intercept)
✓ The surging Democratic presidential candidate and Bloomberg LP have fielded nearly 40 sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits over decades: Why Is Bloomberg's Long History of Egregious Sexism Getting a Pass? by Laura Bassett (GQ)
Disparaging comments. Demeaning jokes. As the mogul reportedly considers a 2020 presidential run, it remains an open question whether his long-alleged history of undermining women will affect his chances: ‘I’d Do Her’: Mike Bloomberg and the Underbelly of #MeToo by Megan Garber (The Atlantic)
✓ "We need to confront the shameful legacy of discrimination, not lie about it like Mike Bloomberg": Warren Slams Bloomberg for Blaming 2008 Financial Meltdown On End of Redlining Policy by Julia Conley (Common Dreams)
✓ Bloomberg education plan to promote charter school expansion by Carl Campanile (New York Post)
✓ Michael Bloomberg On Marijuana: Legalizing 'Another Addictive Narcotic' Is Perhaps the 'Stupidest Thing Anybody Has Ever Done' by Tim Marcin (Newsweek)
✓ I’m an art teacher. Mike’s policies gutted my school. During those years, I was lucky to have enough copy paper for my students to draw on. How Bloomberg Trashed Public Education in New York by Jake Jacobs (The Progressive)
✓ The billionaire’s long history of contradictions, gaffes, and self-owns, in his own words: A List of Things Bloomberg Actually Said About Fat People, Rape, George W. Bush, and J.Lo by Tim Murphy (Mother Jones)
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