'This is a bad idea... really bad': Bloomberg data strategy firm makes bid to run Biden campaign

[SheltieLover]

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Not no, but HELL NO!


‘This is a bad idea… really bad’: Bloomberg data strategy firm makes bid to run Biden campaign
Published 12 mins ago on April 10, 2020By Common Dreams



Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the first critics to raise alarm Friday afternoon after The Intercept reported that a digital strategy firm owned by billionaire Mike Bloomberg “is in serious talks” to win a contract to take over work on Joe Biden’s general election campaign against President Donald Trump.

“Along with Biden’s campaign,” journalist Ryan Grim, who broke the story, reported, the firm—called Hawkfish and which ran Bloomberg’s primary campaign—is now “courting a wide swath of other progressive and Democratic organizations, opening up the possibility of Bloomberg gaining significant control over the party’s technology and data infrastructure."

More at link.

[The Magistrate]

1. Bloombeg's Media Operation Was Top-Notch, Ma'am

Recruiting them to Mr. Biden's campaign is a sound decision.

[mcar]

2. I agree

I really don't care what the Congresswoman thinks. We are going to need lots of ammunition.

[SheltieLover]

8. I concur

Probably the best I've personally ever seen. It's distrust in his motives & having another billionaire calling the shots that scares the hell out of me.

I'm concerned that they would do a superior job then at the last minute when everyone trusts them, they drop a huge bogus bomb. Like a Comey bomb.

[Flaleftist]

22. +1

[Blue_true]

29. I agree. They did some hard hitting stuff against Trump.

Plus, this may be a way for Bloomberg to give money to democrats by basically doing work at cutrate prices, allowing democrats to do other things with the money they save on media.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Smacks Of Purity Testing

There is only one goal! Get rid of Trump.
We are in "backs against the wall", " any means necessary " mode.

[crickets]

35. +1

[kurtcagle]

4. I'm okay with this

Bloomberg wants Trump out, has endorsed Biden, and ran some of the most effective ad campaigns of the primary season. Frankly, AOC notwithstanding, I've been hoping to hear that Bloomberg and Biden have been in talks.

[LaurenOlimina]

5. I thought this was a good thing?

[JDC]

6. Didn't he gave a giant, high tech op?

Why is it bad to use those resources?


This was touted as a big positive (potentially) when Bloomberg dropped out.

[RandySF]

7. Why is it a bad idea?

[msongs]

9. its the bernie crowd unhappy - aoc, common dreams nt

[SheltieLover]

10. And

why isn't Bloomberg funding this? Perhaps he is & I'm missing something.

I just do not trust him.

[Hekate]

17. Where does it say he is not funding this?! He promised to spend a billion bucks of his own money....

...to get Trump the hell out of the WH, and he has been spending it hand over fist.

[Flaleftist]

23. He may run in the operation in the red. I believe he sincerely wants Trump defeated.

And probably could care less if he doesn't make a profit off this, like other firms will want to do.

[Blue_true]

30. He could be implicitly funding it by offering the services at a really low bid.

By not making a profit, he spins the savings back to democratic campaigns.

[texasfiddler]

11. What is the frickin problem?

With COVID-19. Online targeted campaigning will be critical.

[renate]

12. His firm was PHENOMENAL--I was pretty pumped about Bloomberg solely on the basis of their work

Not about him personally, necessarily, but because the firm he hired was so excellent that they would have (and I hope will) run rings around the Trump campaign.

I guess I understand her concerns, but wouldn't any firm have access to the DNC's technology and data infrastructure? I assume that if it's Bloomberg's firm, they won't turn around in the next election and sell their outstanding services to the RNC if the RNC is the top bidder next time.

[Doremus]

13. Have to believe that AOC knows a smidge more about the insides of campaign machinery than I do.

If she says Bloomberg owning Dem infrastructure is a bad idea I concur.

Now that I think about it, I don't even need to know who AOC is to know this is a bad idea. Course, I distrusted him from way back when he was a repuke and privy to their campaign machinery, all the way back to 2018.

[SheltieLover]

15. Yes! Absolutely!

[Hekate]

14. Bloomberg is on our side & is willing to spend money to get Trump out for the good of the country...

Like a lot of us here, Mike Bloomberg is a single-issue voter this year. The difference between him and the rest of us is he is a self-made billionaire with resources the rest of us can't even imagine.

I see you searching for words to express yourself. Perhaps the words are: "Thank God."

[Squinch]

16. This is a GREAT idea!

[tirebiter]

18. David Plouffe and who ever he can hire need to be the spear

Call in the Obama crew to run this show. Plouffe can read numbers better than anyone else.

[Hoyt]

19. Doesn't bother me a bit. Bloomberg has shown his commitment to stomping trump.

We need to stop throwing crud without thinking it through.

[texasfiddler]

20. Why do some Democrats want to fight

with one hand tied behind their back? Brad Parscale will be sitting on 1 billion. I don’t think the DNC is prepared or setup to fight this. COVID 19 makes this even more important in the swing states. This is not a bad idea.

[lapucelle]

21. And the threats have already begun...

Link to tweet

[The Magistrate]

32. This Person Is A Joke, Ma'am

She seems to think she will defeat Rep. Wasserman Schultz in a primary:

If Perelman wants to make mount a legitimate challenge to Wasserman Schultz, the married mother of two must ramp up her fundraising efforts.

According to the latest FEC filings, Perleman has raised roughly $39,000 with $25,000 of that coming from “other loans.” Wasserman Schultz has raised about $700,000.

https://floridianpress.com/2019/10/wasserman-schultz-faces-another-primary-election-challenger/

This shows some serious class:

Perleman, who supports the whole gambit of issues that the “socialist Democrats” in the U.S. Congress are pushing, used a recent story about Wasserman Schultz’s battle against breast cancer to drive home her point that the popular congresswoman does not support the Medicare for All measure.


Threats from people unlikely to crack the Keynes Constant in a primary are hardly a reason to shiver, or to reject an expert media operation.

[lapucelle]

24. Why is 0casio Cotez linking to Ryan Grim?

He's one of the morons who helped to elect Trump.

It's Time To Bury Donald Trump Once And For All
Oct 08, 2016

Helping make Trump the biggest loser in American history doesn’t require you to vote for Hillary Clinton. A vote for anybody other than Trump ― Green Jill Stein, Libertarian Gary Johnson, writing in your own name ― drives down Trump’s overall national percentage by driving up the total turnout.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bury-donald-trump_n_57f86063e4b068ecb5deac56

[SheltieLover]

26. Good question!

I'm not a huge fan of AOC for some of the actions she has reportedly taken but I personally do not trust Bloomberg, yet I want more than anything for our party to unite & reclain every state & fed office to save our country.

[The Magistrate]

33. This Is Simply Stupid, Ma'am

Mr. Grim seems the sort of fellow who would step from his house with his shoes on his head and his feet in his hat.

[BlueLucy]

25. I don't find The Intercept credible.

[stillcool]

27. some things never change...

Where's my pitchfork?

[TheBlackAdder]

28. Facebook, Twitter, Google.... Nothing is ever FREE.... Nothing is ever FREE.

[clutterbox1830]

31. I don't a major problem with this. Bloomberg's campaign team was really good all things considered.

It is much better than Biden's team imo.
Just that Bloomberg was not a good candidate.

Of course, nothing is for free, but I don't see Biden's team improving anytime soon.

[Baked Potato]

34. The Billionaires want control.

When the cash starts flowing the oversight will disappear.

[Zeus69]

36. Excellent

This is the infrastructure/media/outreach Biden needs to counter the Republican machine.