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Michael Bloomberg is the media entrepreneur behind the popular Bloomberg media company that serves up daily news and views for the business world across America and the world. He is ... currently serving as the 108th mayor of New York, taking the reigns from the previous mayor Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg started out as a trader on Wall Street and after seeing an opportunity to improve the way financial data is stored and used he started his own company. As the company grew it expanded into different forms of media including a business news service, Bloomberg business radio, Bloomberg business television station, Bloomberg Internet and various publishing operations.
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Michael Bloomberg was a lifelong member of the Democratic Party. When it became clear that he would be unable to win the Democratic nomination for Mayor, he abruptly switched his party affiliation to Republican in order to run in the Republican primary. The Republican party, seeking a better candidate to face a strong Democratic challenge from attorney and public advocate Mark Green, welcomed Michael Bloomberg as the best chance to retain the Mayor’s office. Bloomberg’s background as a successful businessman was particularly appealing in the wake of the rebuilding efforts after 9/11.
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Michael Bloomberg has on numerous occasions been accused of sexually harassing women under his employment. T. Diane Winger sued Mr. Bloomberg for sexual harassment, alleging that he had made explicit comments about her body and encouraged her to spend time alone with him. The lawsuit was withdrawn in 1999.[17] High level Bloomberg employee Sekiko Garrison claimed she was forced to quit after becoming pregnant. Garrison claimed that Bloomberg told her twice to "kill it" when she informed him she was having a baby. He ... added, according to Garrison: "Great! Number 16," a reference to the number of company women on maternity leave.
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Michael Bloomberg has always approached his political career utilizing his business experience, adapting when necessary and striving for efficiency. Once a general partner at Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street investment bank, Bloomberg later founded Bloomberg L.P., currently the largest financial news and data company in the world. Though a Democrat, he went over to the Republicans for the 2001 ballot for mayor of New York City. Re-elected in 2005, he became an Independent two years later and was considered a possible late runner for the 2008 presidency for that party.
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On Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg, who had purchased the New York City and State Republican Party at a fire sale, announced he was leaving the GOP. The next morning, he highlighted a managerial achievement that underlines the rationale for his all-but-declared independent presidential campaign. With the press corps gathered at City Hall, he held a ceremony to mark the 50 millionth call to New York’s 311 hotline. This innovation, borrowed from Chicago, has made it far easier for residents to contact city government with their problems. Bloomberg, in high spirits, put his arm around the operator who had received the call and asked with a wink if she was planning to run for president.
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Michael Bloomberg was just a year old when, in 1943, the author Esther Forbes published a children's novel, "Johnny Tremain," the tale of a young Revolutionary-era silversmith apprentice in Boston on the eve of war. The book would come to dominate Bloomberg's imaginative life. As a boy growing up in Medford, Mass., he recalls, "I must have read it 50 times." In the great rhetorical scene at the heart of the story, the revolutionary James Otis addresses a small tavern gathering that includes Sam Adams, John Adams and John Hancock, reminding the nascent rebels that their fight is not only national but global. America would make war, Otis said, so that "there shall be no more tyranny." Between deep sips of grog, he went on: "The peasants of France, the serfs of Russia.
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