It allowed him to reduce political risk, because he could foot the bill for policy experimentation himself, instead of leaving it to the taxpayers. When his administration wanted to reduce the number of garbage trucks on the road by splitting them between general waste and recyclables, he could use private money to underwrite the new equipment.
Read: A Bloomberg presidential run comes down to one question. In short, the money Bloomberg spent in office helped him to be more popular and successful as mayor than he otherwise would have been.
Bloomberg is generally seen as one of the most effective mayors in the history of the city. How much of that perception is based on the money he spent on ad campaigns that promoted his anti-smoking and healthy-eating initiatives; or on flying state legislators to his home in Bermuda, where they golfed and often walked away with big checks for their reelection committees; or on funding education-reform groups that backed his efforts to seize control of the public schools from the state government?
How much of what seemed to be his organic grassroots support can be traced, directly and indirectly, to outlays of cash? Garcetti has tried to copy them, albeit without the massive personal wealth to subsidize them. For his presidential run, top staff members of the Bloomberg nonprofits promoting gun control, climate-change prevention, and city innovation have started working for the campaign.
He has unapologetically hamstrung the huge news organization he owns, Bloomberg News, which has gone from publishing implicitly pro-Bloomberg editorials in the weeks before he made his run official to suspending the editorial board and having many of the same people who were writing them also move over to the campaign; the political reporters there worry about not being taken seriously anymore.
Using the standards by which other candidates are judged, all of this would be considered campaign expenses or hidden costs. But that misunderstands the nature of politics and the importance of money in politics. Officially, this money was given anonymously—but the foundation was in such close contact with city hall about which groups received the checks that government staff would reach out to reporters to flag the list of anonymous donations as soon as it was released by Carnegie.
In , halfway through his third term, this was all moved to Bloomberg Philanthropies, housed out of the same mansion on the Upper East Side that has largely been taken over by his presidential campaign. Never was it clearer than during his extension of city term limits. I covered the Bloomberg administration for eight years, and I remember standing outside the handful of show hearings the city council held concerning his term-limits extension in The rooms at city hall were packed with people who had never taken an interest in municipal affairs before, but were now showing their support for extending term limits.
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Some passengers with wheelchairs are charged extra on every ride, according to a Justice Department lawsuit. The former Wall Street executive and former Republican previously said he didn't solicit donations for his campaign , choosing to self-fund it instead. From his early days working on Wall Street to his generous philanthropic donations, here's how the former presidential candidate made — and spends — his billions. The moderate former Republican was a late-entry candidate who joined the race in November , eight months after he said he wouldn't be running for president in He's also the richest person to run for president in US history.
According to his website, Bloomberg grew up in a middle-class family and was in the Boy Scouts. He landed a job at Salomon Brothers in New York City, where he spent countless hours counting out stocks and bonds in the bank's vault. Originally called Innovative Market Solutions, the company aimed to make it easier for traders to wade through data. When he wanted to run for a third term as mayor, Bloomberg campaigned to change the law that limited officials to only two terms in office — and won.
Her career includes serving as deputy secretary to former New York governor George Pataki , superintendent of banking for the State of New York, managing director at Wolfensohn Fund Management, and vice chair of Solera Capital, a women-owned private equity firm. The couple met in at a Citizens Budget Commission luncheon when she was at Wolfensohn, the Times reported. Taylor hit the campaign trail for Bloomberg, who she "always thought" would be "a really good president," she told The Washington Post.
Emma Bloomberg, his older daughter, is active in the nonprofit world , having spent more than six years at the Robin Hood Foundation. She's now the CEO of Murmuration , a nonprofit with the goal of reducing inequality and improve outcomes for children. Bloomberg's younger daughter, Georgina Bloomberg, is a professional equestrian and author of young adult novels. Georgina is a New York University graduate and is a self-described animal lover who has reportedly rescued five dogs , a pig, a goat, two mules, and two miniature horses.
At one point in , Bloomberg owned a whopping 14 properties worldwide , with homes everywhere from New York to London to Bermuda. The Southampton estate includes a 22,square-foot Georgian mansion with 11 bedrooms and eight bathrooms. According to Bermuda's Royal Gazette, Bloomberg is still a part-time resident as of The seven-bedroom Chelsea townhouse became Bloomberg's second home in the city, where he had already owned an apartment on Cadogan Square for years.
The building, which has been called "the world's most sustainable office," won the Stirling prize for architecture. Bloomberg's , square feet of office space in the building span 29 floors. The Bloomberg campaign previously said that Bloomberg would sell his company if he's elected president, and Microsoft has been rumored as a potential buyer.
Alongside fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Bloomberg has signed the Giving Pledge, vowing to donate at least half of his wealth to charity.
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