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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on February 14, 2020, 05:01:20 pm

Title: Chait Wonders: Why Is No One Talking About Bloomberg’s #MeToo Issues?
Post by: PeteS in CA on February 14, 2020, 05:01:20 pm
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/02/13/chait-wonders-no-one-talking-bloombergs-metoo-issues/

Chait Wonders: Why Is No One Talking About Bloomberg’s #MeToo Issues?

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... Jonathan Chait raises it again in the context of the oppo research emerging over Bloomberg’s old defenses of stop-and-frisk.

Bloomberg’s #MeToo issues should create an even bigger problem for him, Chait argues ...
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Before we get to Chait’s argument about which story is bigger, let’s recall Megan Garber’s initial report in September 2018 about Bloomberg’s office comportment:

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What is not fully addressed in the Times article, however—and what is not fully explored in the many similar pieces that consider the current iteration of Mike Bloomberg’s presidential ambitions—is a series of stories about him, accumulated over decades, that suggests in the aggregate a distinct pattern when it comes to his treatment of women: reports of disparaging comments made about women’s bodies and appearances. Allegations of a deeply sexist work environment at the company that Bloomberg founded and, for many years, ran. Stories that linger like exhaust in the air every time Mike Bloomberg is mentioned as, potentially, the next president of the United States. …

From 1996 to 1997, four women filed sexual-harassment or discrimination suits against Bloomberg the company. One of the suits included the following allegation: When Sekiko Sakai Garrison, a sales representative at the company, told Mike Bloomberg she was pregnant, he replied, “Kill it!” ...
Title: Re: Chait Wonders: Why Is No One Talking About Bloomberg’s #MeToo Issues?
Post by: musiclady on February 14, 2020, 05:23:38 pm
He's a Dem.  It doesn't matter how sexist they are.  They get a pass.


(Republicans didn't used to, but I guess some do now.....   :shrug:)