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November 29, 2019
Three Ohio papers to be cut to clear $3.1B Apollo purchase
New York PostThe 121-year old Dayton Daily News and two other Ohio newspapers will shrink to three days a week from daily publication to appease regulators who on Monday approved a $3.1 billion acquisition of Cox TV stations and newspapers by private equity firm Apollo Global Management.
The Leon Black-led Apollo proposed cutting back the print editions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dayton Daily, among others, to get around Federal Communications Commission rules banning the same owner from having a TV station and daily newspaper in the same market.
The so-called duopoly rules were all but dead in recent years until a federal appeals court in Philadelphia reimposed them in September — throwing an unexpected wrench into Apollo’s acquisition plans for Cox Media Group.
To sidestep the rules, Apollo in late October proposed cutting the frequency of the three Ohio papers, arguing they would no longer be producing a print paper seven days a week and therefore would not draw FCC scrutiny.
The Leon Black-led Apollo proposed cutting back the print editions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dayton Daily, among others, to get around Federal Communications Commission rules banning the same owner from having a TV station and daily newspaper in the same market.
The so-called duopoly rules were all but dead in recent years until a federal appeals court in Philadelphia reimposed them in September — throwing an unexpected wrench into Apollo’s acquisition plans for Cox Media Group.
To sidestep the rules, Apollo in late October proposed cutting the frequency of the three Ohio papers, arguing they would no longer be producing a print paper seven days a week and therefore would not draw FCC scrutiny.
November 28, 2019
Her campaign slogan will be “a unique perspective on criminal justice policies”
Pro-Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft
Source: The Guardian
A pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress who is aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar in Minnesota has been charged with a felony after allegedly stealing from stores.
Danielle Stella was arrested twice this year in Minneapolis suburbs over allegations that she shoplifted items worth more than $2,300 from a Target and goods valued at $40 from a grocery store. She said she denied the allegations.
Stella, a 31-year-old special education teacher, was reported this week to be a supporter of the baseless “QAnon” conspiracy theory about Donald Trump battling a global cabal of elite liberal paedophiles.
This week Stella also described Minneapolis as “the crime capital of our country”. She has in the past complained that local police were “overworked and overburdened” and said that, if elected, she would work to reduce crime.
Read more: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/25/danielle-stella-republican-ilhan-omar-charged-felony-qanon-trump
Her campaign slogan will be “a unique perspective on criminal justice policies”
November 28, 2019
Always good to have an excuse for failure...seems to work for Trump.
Progressive journalist: MSNBC doesn't try to hide 'contempt' towards Gabbard
The HillProgressive journalist Michael Tracey claimed Tuesday that MSNBC is has dropped all pretenses for their “contempt” towards Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).
The political news contributor said the left-leaning network has treated her fellow 2020 Democratic candidates, including businessman Andrew Yang and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unfairly, but he argued that with Gabbard it, “crosses a certain threshold.”
“Fundamentally they’re beholden to whatever the market incentives are and right now it’s within their market interests to depict Tulsi as an infiltrator, as a Trojan horse in the Democratic Party and not deal on the substance with what she’s saying which is why over and over again they tar her as a Russian plant essentially,” Tracey told Hill.TV.
“There’s nobody who can really offer any kind countervailing view because it’s just not economically advantageous for them at this point,” he added.
MSNBC didn't immediately return Hill.TV's request for comment.
The political news contributor said the left-leaning network has treated her fellow 2020 Democratic candidates, including businessman Andrew Yang and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unfairly, but he argued that with Gabbard it, “crosses a certain threshold.”
“Fundamentally they’re beholden to whatever the market incentives are and right now it’s within their market interests to depict Tulsi as an infiltrator, as a Trojan horse in the Democratic Party and not deal on the substance with what she’s saying which is why over and over again they tar her as a Russian plant essentially,” Tracey told Hill.TV.
“There’s nobody who can really offer any kind countervailing view because it’s just not economically advantageous for them at this point,” he added.
MSNBC didn't immediately return Hill.TV's request for comment.
Always good to have an excuse for failure...seems to work for Trump.
November 28, 2019
Presidential candidate and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock touted on Tuesday that in 2016, he won election as a Democrat in a state that heavily voted for President Donald Trump. Though Bullock is polling at less than 1 percent nationally, and will not be participating in next week’s Democratic presidential debate, he thinks that he has an opportunity to come out ahead in the race.
During an interview with Boston Public Radio Tuesday, Bullock said that his experience in Montana has shown him that people can transcend political partisanship for the common good, and he hopes to bring that mentality with him to Washington, D.C.
“Most people’s lives are too busy to care about politics, but they want a safe community, they want a decent job, they want good schools, a roof over their head, clean air and clean water, and a belief that you can do better for that next generation than yourself,” Bullock said. “Those are the values that I’ve organized around and I think those are the values that can transcend.”
On Tuesday morning, Bullock officially filed his paperwork to appear on the ballot in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Feb. 11, 2020.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock Says He's Prepared To Tackle Dysfunction In Washington
WGBH-TVPresidential candidate and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock touted on Tuesday that in 2016, he won election as a Democrat in a state that heavily voted for President Donald Trump. Though Bullock is polling at less than 1 percent nationally, and will not be participating in next week’s Democratic presidential debate, he thinks that he has an opportunity to come out ahead in the race.
During an interview with Boston Public Radio Tuesday, Bullock said that his experience in Montana has shown him that people can transcend political partisanship for the common good, and he hopes to bring that mentality with him to Washington, D.C.
“Most people’s lives are too busy to care about politics, but they want a safe community, they want a decent job, they want good schools, a roof over their head, clean air and clean water, and a belief that you can do better for that next generation than yourself,” Bullock said. “Those are the values that I’ve organized around and I think those are the values that can transcend.”
On Tuesday morning, Bullock officially filed his paperwork to appear on the ballot in the New Hampshire Democratic primary on Feb. 11, 2020.
November 28, 2019
Here's what bugs Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bennet about the front-runners
Yahoo FinanceMichael Bennet didn’t make the debate stage, but he has some thoughts about the rest of the field.
During an appearance on Yahoo Finance’s On the Move on Friday, the Democratic Senator from Colorado ran through the shortcomings he sees in the candidates who did make the stage.
When asked if he watched Wednesday’s debate, he said he saw part of it and wanted to jump through the screen “basically for the entire hour and a half.” The Senator missed a decent chunk of the debate, which had a total running time of closer to two and a half hours.
“What bugs me the most is that we're not focused on an agenda that will actually unify the Democratic party and win back some of the 9 million people who voted twice for Barack Obama and once for Donald Trump,” he said, adding that the solution “is staring at us in plain sight.”
Speaking of two of his fellow senators — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — Bennet said that "getting sidetracked on Bernie's ideological commitment and Elizabeth’s ideological commitment to Medicare for All isn't going to make a difference for the kids that I used to work for the Denver public schools."
During an appearance on Yahoo Finance’s On the Move on Friday, the Democratic Senator from Colorado ran through the shortcomings he sees in the candidates who did make the stage.
When asked if he watched Wednesday’s debate, he said he saw part of it and wanted to jump through the screen “basically for the entire hour and a half.” The Senator missed a decent chunk of the debate, which had a total running time of closer to two and a half hours.
“What bugs me the most is that we're not focused on an agenda that will actually unify the Democratic party and win back some of the 9 million people who voted twice for Barack Obama and once for Donald Trump,” he said, adding that the solution “is staring at us in plain sight.”
Speaking of two of his fellow senators — Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — Bennet said that "getting sidetracked on Bernie's ideological commitment and Elizabeth’s ideological commitment to Medicare for All isn't going to make a difference for the kids that I used to work for the Denver public schools."
November 28, 2019
Near the end of the latest Democratic debate, Cory Booker did something unusual for a presidential candidate: He admitted that his campaign was in trouble. “I have not yet qualified for the December stage,” the senator from New Jersey confessed, “If you believe in my voice and that I should be up here, please go to CoryBooker.com. Please help.”
The plea worked. A surge of contributions pushed Booker past the donor threshold needed to quality for the next debate, which is scheduled for December 19. But that might not be enough. To take the stage, Booker also needs at least 4 percent in four national or state polls or at least 6 percent in two polls from early states. As of November 24, according to The New York Times, he doesn’t have a single one. If that doesn’t change between now and the cutoff date of December 12, Booker’s campaign will be left for dead.
How has a candidate whom CNN last December placed fourth in its power rankings—ahead of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, not to mention Pete Buttigieg, who didn’t even make the list—found himself trailing Tulsi Gabbard, Tom Steyer, and Andrew Yang in both Iowa and New Hampshire? The answer has a lot to do with Booker’s unwillingness to stand up for what he once believed. Since early this year, Democratic moderates who are uneasy about Joe Biden have been casting about for a candidate. But Booker, by refusing to challenge his party’s left in the early debates, took himself out of contention. And now it may be too late.
In his early political career, Booker embodied the market-friendly, fiscally conservative ethos of Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party. In 2002, when he ran for mayor of Newark as a darling of Wall Street who supported school vouchers, New York magazine called him “essentially a Clinton Democrat.” Jesse Jackson dubbed him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” In 2011, Booker enraged New Jersey’s public-employee unions by backing Governor Chris Christie’s effort to cut health and retirement benefits for teachers and other state workers. And the following year, Booker—who during the 2012 election cycle received more than one-third of his campaign contributions from the finance industry—famously called on Barack Obama’s campaign to “stop attacking private equity” in an interview on Meet the Press.
Cory Booker Blew It
The AtlanticNear the end of the latest Democratic debate, Cory Booker did something unusual for a presidential candidate: He admitted that his campaign was in trouble. “I have not yet qualified for the December stage,” the senator from New Jersey confessed, “If you believe in my voice and that I should be up here, please go to CoryBooker.com. Please help.”
The plea worked. A surge of contributions pushed Booker past the donor threshold needed to quality for the next debate, which is scheduled for December 19. But that might not be enough. To take the stage, Booker also needs at least 4 percent in four national or state polls or at least 6 percent in two polls from early states. As of November 24, according to The New York Times, he doesn’t have a single one. If that doesn’t change between now and the cutoff date of December 12, Booker’s campaign will be left for dead.
How has a candidate whom CNN last December placed fourth in its power rankings—ahead of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, not to mention Pete Buttigieg, who didn’t even make the list—found himself trailing Tulsi Gabbard, Tom Steyer, and Andrew Yang in both Iowa and New Hampshire? The answer has a lot to do with Booker’s unwillingness to stand up for what he once believed. Since early this year, Democratic moderates who are uneasy about Joe Biden have been casting about for a candidate. But Booker, by refusing to challenge his party’s left in the early debates, took himself out of contention. And now it may be too late.
In his early political career, Booker embodied the market-friendly, fiscally conservative ethos of Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party. In 2002, when he ran for mayor of Newark as a darling of Wall Street who supported school vouchers, New York magazine called him “essentially a Clinton Democrat.” Jesse Jackson dubbed him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” In 2011, Booker enraged New Jersey’s public-employee unions by backing Governor Chris Christie’s effort to cut health and retirement benefits for teachers and other state workers. And the following year, Booker—who during the 2012 election cycle received more than one-third of his campaign contributions from the finance industry—famously called on Barack Obama’s campaign to “stop attacking private equity” in an interview on Meet the Press.
November 28, 2019
Harris faces uphill climb amid questions about who she is
Washington PostGREENVILLE, S.C. — Sen. Kamala D. Harris had everything she needed to make her pitch. Big yellow cutout letters spelled “Justice for the People” on the stage behind her. White folding chairs splayed out ahead of her, most of them filled, and their occupants seemed happy to see her. Nothing smelled of a flailing campaign.
“I’m spending a lot of time in what I am now thinking of and considering to be my second home, South Carolina,” Harris told the crowd, drawing some nods of approval.
“I’m also spending a lot of time in Iowa,” she added.
It was typical of Harris and her campaign, which has often displayed a desire to be everything to everyone that has instead left voters with questions about who she is, what she believes and what her priorities and convictions would be as president.
As a result, her candidacy is now teetering, weighed down by indecision within her campaign, her limits as a candidate and dwindling funds that have forced her to retreat in some places at a moment she expected to be surging. After last week’s debate in Atlanta, where she won high marks, her advisers were simply hoping she did well enough to inspire people to donate enough money so that she could air a new ad. As of Wednesday, they hadn’t.
“I’m spending a lot of time in what I am now thinking of and considering to be my second home, South Carolina,” Harris told the crowd, drawing some nods of approval.
“I’m also spending a lot of time in Iowa,” she added.
It was typical of Harris and her campaign, which has often displayed a desire to be everything to everyone that has instead left voters with questions about who she is, what she believes and what her priorities and convictions would be as president.
As a result, her candidacy is now teetering, weighed down by indecision within her campaign, her limits as a candidate and dwindling funds that have forced her to retreat in some places at a moment she expected to be surging. After last week’s debate in Atlanta, where she won high marks, her advisers were simply hoping she did well enough to inspire people to donate enough money so that she could air a new ad. As of Wednesday, they hadn’t.
November 28, 2019
President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Alex Azar, and his Medicare chief, Seema Verma, are increasingly at odds, and their feuding has delayed the president’s long-promised replacement proposal for Obamacare and disrupted other health care initiatives central to Trump's reelection campaign, according to administration officials.
Verma spent about six months developing a Trump administration alternative to the Affordable Care Act, only to have Azar nix the proposal before it could be presented to Trump this summer, sending the administration back to the drawing board, senior officials told POLITICO. Azar believed Verma’s plan would actually strengthen Obamacare, not kill it.
Behind the policy differences over Obamacare, drug pricing and other initiatives, however, is a personal rivalry that has become increasingly bitter. This fall, Azar blocked Verma from traveling with Trump on Air Force One from Washington to Florida in early October for the unveiling of a high-profile Medicare executive order — an initiative largely drawn up by Verma's agency — said six officials with knowledge of the episode, which played out over days. Only after Verma complained to White House staff was she allowed on Trump’s plane, according to seven people familiar with the situation. HHS disputed the account, saying that the White House had identified space limitations on the plane.
Azar is a Cabinet secretary who oversees the 80,000-person Health and Human Services department, while Verma runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare and accounts for the lion's share of the overall HHS budget. That often affords the CMS administrator outsize autonomy and public visibility.
Clashes among top HHS officials undermine Trump agenda
PoliticoPresident Donald Trump’s health secretary, Alex Azar, and his Medicare chief, Seema Verma, are increasingly at odds, and their feuding has delayed the president’s long-promised replacement proposal for Obamacare and disrupted other health care initiatives central to Trump's reelection campaign, according to administration officials.
Verma spent about six months developing a Trump administration alternative to the Affordable Care Act, only to have Azar nix the proposal before it could be presented to Trump this summer, sending the administration back to the drawing board, senior officials told POLITICO. Azar believed Verma’s plan would actually strengthen Obamacare, not kill it.
Behind the policy differences over Obamacare, drug pricing and other initiatives, however, is a personal rivalry that has become increasingly bitter. This fall, Azar blocked Verma from traveling with Trump on Air Force One from Washington to Florida in early October for the unveiling of a high-profile Medicare executive order — an initiative largely drawn up by Verma's agency — said six officials with knowledge of the episode, which played out over days. Only after Verma complained to White House staff was she allowed on Trump’s plane, according to seven people familiar with the situation. HHS disputed the account, saying that the White House had identified space limitations on the plane.
Azar is a Cabinet secretary who oversees the 80,000-person Health and Human Services department, while Verma runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which administers Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare and accounts for the lion's share of the overall HHS budget. That often affords the CMS administrator outsize autonomy and public visibility.
November 28, 2019
Bloomberg is fifth in the Predict Primary market
NAME COST CHANGE
Biden 27¢ NC
Buttigieg 20¢ -1¢
Warren 19¢ 2¢
Sanders 17¢ NC
Bloomberg 12¢ 1¢
November 28, 2019
https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/mike-bloomberg-delivers-remarks-after-filing-for-democratic-primary-at-arizona-state-capitol
Mike Bloomberg Delivers Remarks After Filing for Democratic Primary at Arizona State Capitol
“Great to be here in Phoenix and to meet with some voters and hear about the issues that are most important to them.
“Arizona, as you know, is a crucial battleground state, but you don’t often see presidential candidates around here.
“And the fact is: President Trump is about the only one spending any money here and in some of the other swing states around the country – and that’s a big problem for our party and I am determined to change exactly that.
“Democrats, I think, have a chance to win Arizona, and turn it from red to blue if we nominate somebody who makes winning here a top priority, and if we nominate someone who builds the kind of broad coalition that is needed to win in states like Arizona.
“The path to the presidency goes through right where we are standing right now. And this is the road that I’m taking. This is why I’m here, and I’m here at the beginning of my campaign rather than later on.
“I just wanted to briefly tell you why I’ve decided to enter this race. I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and to unite and rebuild America. It’s really that simple.
“We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions. And if he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage.
“The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election. We must begin rebuilding America – by investing at home, and restoring our nation’s credibility and moral leadership abroad.
“I believe that my unique set of experiences in business, in government, and in philanthropy will enable me to both win and lead. I’m a problem solver and a doer – not a talker.
“I’ve spent my entire career bringing people together to tackle big problems – and to fix them. It has worked well in business – and in running the country’s largest, most progressive city. It can work in Washington, it can work in Phoenix, and we’ve got to pull together and make it work for all of America.
“I’ve got a track record of taking on tough fights – and winning. I’ve taken on Trump on gun violence – and beat him by helping to put stronger gun laws in states across this country. I took on Trump the climate denier – and beat him by helping to close more than half of the nation’s dirty coal fired power plants that pollute our air and threaten our climate.
“I know what it takes to beat Donald Trump, because I already have in New York, in Washington, and in State Houses across the country. And I will do it again.
“Now, growing up, I never thought I’d run for president. I didn’t know anybody who’d ever run for president before. My father never earned more than $6,000 a year, the best year of his life. I managed to work my way through college and get an entry-level job in New York.
“And then, when I was 39-years-old, I got laid off. I didn’t quite know what to do next. But I had an idea to start a company – so I took a chance.
“Today I’m glad to say that our company employs 20,000 people and it generates large profits, all of which I donate to helping people across the country and around the world.
“My company pays employees well, provides the best health care benefits money can buy, and if someone has a baby, they get six months of paid maternity or paternity leave.
“In short, I run my company according to my values: honesty, integrity, fairness, and inclusion. And that’s the same approach that I brought to city government.
“I was elected mayor of America’s most diverse city just weeks after the attacks on 9/11. It was really a frightening time for our city and our country. But we rebuilt the economy with new jobs and new opportunities for everybody – people on all rungs of the economic ladder.
“We worked with our teachers to negotiate the largest raise in teacher salaries in America, and we improved graduation rates by 42 percent.
“We cut murders in half while reducing incarceration by nearly 40 percent.
“We also cut the city’s carbon footprint by 14 percent and created new programs to combat poverty.
“And we expanded health care and strengthened immigrant communities.
“Since leaving City Hall, I founded the largest gun safety group in history. Now it has six million supporters. We are working closely with Gabby Giffords and her husband.
“I created a campaign to take on the biggest polluters and climate threats.
“I know how to take on the powerful special interests that corrupt Washington. I know how to win – because I’ve done it, time and time again.
“I will be the only candidate in this race who isn’t corruptible, who isn’t going to take a penny from anyone, and will work for a dollar a year who over 12 years in office built a reputation for unmatched honesty and competency.
“Over the course of this campaign, I’m going to outline plans for: creating good-paying jobs; providing quality health care for every American; stopping gun violence; reducing incarceration; fighting climate change; supporting our veterans; fixing our broken immigration system; taxing wealthy people like me; re-establishing America’s place in the world as a force for peace and stability; and protecting women’s rights to control their bodies, and everyone’s right to be who they are and marry who they love.
“But more than plans, I will offer the leadership to turn plans into reality, to roll up my sleeves, to motivate our country to unite and rebuild America – and make it better and fairer. I’m ready to get working.”
“Arizona, as you know, is a crucial battleground state, but you don’t often see presidential candidates around here.
“And the fact is: President Trump is about the only one spending any money here and in some of the other swing states around the country – and that’s a big problem for our party and I am determined to change exactly that.
“Democrats, I think, have a chance to win Arizona, and turn it from red to blue if we nominate somebody who makes winning here a top priority, and if we nominate someone who builds the kind of broad coalition that is needed to win in states like Arizona.
“The path to the presidency goes through right where we are standing right now. And this is the road that I’m taking. This is why I’m here, and I’m here at the beginning of my campaign rather than later on.
“I just wanted to briefly tell you why I’ve decided to enter this race. I’m running for president to defeat Donald Trump and to unite and rebuild America. It’s really that simple.
“We cannot afford four more years of President Trump’s reckless and unethical actions. And if he wins another term in office, we may never recover from the damage.
“The stakes could not be higher. We must win this election. We must begin rebuilding America – by investing at home, and restoring our nation’s credibility and moral leadership abroad.
“I believe that my unique set of experiences in business, in government, and in philanthropy will enable me to both win and lead. I’m a problem solver and a doer – not a talker.
“I’ve spent my entire career bringing people together to tackle big problems – and to fix them. It has worked well in business – and in running the country’s largest, most progressive city. It can work in Washington, it can work in Phoenix, and we’ve got to pull together and make it work for all of America.
“I’ve got a track record of taking on tough fights – and winning. I’ve taken on Trump on gun violence – and beat him by helping to put stronger gun laws in states across this country. I took on Trump the climate denier – and beat him by helping to close more than half of the nation’s dirty coal fired power plants that pollute our air and threaten our climate.
“I know what it takes to beat Donald Trump, because I already have in New York, in Washington, and in State Houses across the country. And I will do it again.
“Now, growing up, I never thought I’d run for president. I didn’t know anybody who’d ever run for president before. My father never earned more than $6,000 a year, the best year of his life. I managed to work my way through college and get an entry-level job in New York.
“And then, when I was 39-years-old, I got laid off. I didn’t quite know what to do next. But I had an idea to start a company – so I took a chance.
“Today I’m glad to say that our company employs 20,000 people and it generates large profits, all of which I donate to helping people across the country and around the world.
“My company pays employees well, provides the best health care benefits money can buy, and if someone has a baby, they get six months of paid maternity or paternity leave.
“In short, I run my company according to my values: honesty, integrity, fairness, and inclusion. And that’s the same approach that I brought to city government.
“I was elected mayor of America’s most diverse city just weeks after the attacks on 9/11. It was really a frightening time for our city and our country. But we rebuilt the economy with new jobs and new opportunities for everybody – people on all rungs of the economic ladder.
“We worked with our teachers to negotiate the largest raise in teacher salaries in America, and we improved graduation rates by 42 percent.
“We cut murders in half while reducing incarceration by nearly 40 percent.
“We also cut the city’s carbon footprint by 14 percent and created new programs to combat poverty.
“And we expanded health care and strengthened immigrant communities.
“Since leaving City Hall, I founded the largest gun safety group in history. Now it has six million supporters. We are working closely with Gabby Giffords and her husband.
“I created a campaign to take on the biggest polluters and climate threats.
“I know how to take on the powerful special interests that corrupt Washington. I know how to win – because I’ve done it, time and time again.
“I will be the only candidate in this race who isn’t corruptible, who isn’t going to take a penny from anyone, and will work for a dollar a year who over 12 years in office built a reputation for unmatched honesty and competency.
“Over the course of this campaign, I’m going to outline plans for: creating good-paying jobs; providing quality health care for every American; stopping gun violence; reducing incarceration; fighting climate change; supporting our veterans; fixing our broken immigration system; taxing wealthy people like me; re-establishing America’s place in the world as a force for peace and stability; and protecting women’s rights to control their bodies, and everyone’s right to be who they are and marry who they love.
“But more than plans, I will offer the leadership to turn plans into reality, to roll up my sleeves, to motivate our country to unite and rebuild America – and make it better and fairer. I’m ready to get working.”
https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/mike-bloomberg-delivers-remarks-after-filing-for-democratic-primary-at-arizona-state-capitol
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