{"id":177268,"date":"2019-11-07T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/07\/great-another-self-important-billionaire-throws-his-hat-into-the-presidential-ring\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T00:46:00","slug":"great-another-self-important-billionaire-throws-his-hat-into-the-presidential-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/11\/07\/great-another-self-important-billionaire-throws-his-hat-into-the-presidential-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Great, Another Self-Important Billionaire Throws His Hat into the Presidential Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/07\/us\/politics\/michael-bloomberg-president-2020.html\">Michael Bloomberg<\/a> who appears to be upset that he will have to pay more taxes under a Sanders or Warren presidency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Michael R. Bloomberg is actively preparing to enter the Democratic presidential primary and is expected to file paperwork this week designating himself as a candidate in at least one state with an early filing deadline, people briefed on Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s plans said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and billionaire businessman, has been privately weighing a bid for the White House for weeks and has not yet made a final decision on whether to run, an adviser said. But in the first sign that he is seriously moving toward a campaign, Mr. Bloomberg has dispatched staffers to Alabama to gather signatures to qualify for the primary there. Though Alabama does not hold an early primary, it has a Friday deadline for candidates to formally enter the race.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Bloomberg and his advisers called a number of prominent Democrats on Thursday to tell them he was seriously considering the race, including former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the retired majority leader who remains a dominant power broker in the early caucus state. Aides to Mr. Bloomberg also reached out to Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the problem with the Democratic Party Presidential primaries are that there are not enough arrogant billionaires in the race, said no one ever.<\/p>\n<p>If you think that Kamala Harris has problems because of her record as District Attorney and California Attorney General, just imagine how &#8220;Mayor Stop and Frisk&#8221; will be received by minority voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s Michael Bloomberg who appears to be upset that he will have to pay more taxes under a Sanders or Warren presidency. Michael R. Bloomberg is actively preparing to enter the Democratic presidential primary and is expected to file paperwork this week designating himself as a candidate in at least one state with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,405,406,403],"class_list":["post-177268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}