His record regarding women and minorities should eliminate him from any consideration to be president, and if he were a Republican he would have been run out of town long ago. But oodles of cash make Democrat "principles" appear very malleable indeed.

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When it comes to dealing with race relations, former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg wants us to believe that he has grown and changed.

In November, just days before he officially made his late entry into the 2020 presidential race, Bloomberg went to a black church in Brooklyn and apologized for the discriminatory “stop and frisk” law enforcement tactics he embraced as mayor.

After a recording surfaced of him boasting of deploying police into minority neighborhoods to “throw them up against the wall and frisk them,” Bloomberg insisted that the words he spoke in 2015 do not reflect who he is today. “I have taken responsibility for taking too long to understand the impact it had on black and Latino communities,” he said.

It is time for Bloomberg to face a similar reckoning with his record on the treatment of women in the private-sector business that made him a billionaire.

Over the years, there have been reports — and a series of lawsuits — contending that a toxic workplace culture existed at Bloomberg’s spectacularly successful business-information company.

The latest revelations, in a deeply researched story by my Post colleague Michael Kranish, add to evidence that Bloomberg himself fostered that environment, with profane, misogynistic comments. He is said to have been especially fond of making jokes suggesting that female employees should offer oral sex to colleagues and clients.

Kranish also found more verification to longstanding allegations that Bloomberg berated employees who got pregnant. One former employee said he heard the billionaire ask an expectant saleswoman whether she planned to “kill it.”

Bloomberg has denied having said that. But his spokesman Stu Loeser told Kranish: “Mike openly admits that his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life and some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong.”

Still, Bloomberg has also gone to great lengths to assure that those who claim they were the victims of his mistreatment will never be able to speak for themselves publicly. In reaching legal settlements with women who have sued him, he has bound them to confidentiality agreements, and he refuses to release their depositions.

That means his actions in the private sector, unlike his record as mayor, can never be held up to independent scrutiny. Instead, Bloomberg expects us to accept his word that his company achieved an “enviable record” on gender.

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Note how the MSM is rather quiet when it comes to Bloomberg's past misdeeds. Now why would that be given its past obsession with the issues of racism and misogyny?

Bloomers steps into it again.

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Presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared to belittle both farmers and factory workers in 2016 comments made at a university forum, continuing a trend of old remarks resurfacing to plague the billionaire's bid for the Democratic nomination.

Joining the Distinguished Speakers Series at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, Bloomberg was responding to a question about whether it is possible to unite people in middle America and the coasts. One of the issues standing in the way of that, Bloomberg said, was the inability of blue-collar workers to adapt to the information economy even if they have their education subsidized.

"The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer," Bloomberg said. "It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it's 2 percent in the United States."

Bloomberg continued: "Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter. It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn, and so the challenge of society of finding jobs for these people, who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing. But the thing that is the most important, that will stop them from setting up a guillotine someday, is the dignity of a job"

Bloomberg, who has faced a litany of negative stories in the past week about his past comments regarding women, African-Americans and others, concluded his point, saying, "the problem is not the redistribution of wealth, it is the job where you go in every day."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloombe...n-2016-comments

Yep, telling farmers and factory workers they are dunces should go over very well in the industrial Midwest and the farm states. Go, Mikey.