Reply #99: He's the founder of Bloomberg L.P. which sells financial information

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(via company-developed software) to Wall Street firms. Bloomberg L.P. also owns Bloomberg Radio Network/Bloomberg Television.

He has held no other political offices besides Mayor of New York.

As to his background, he was a general partner in Solomon Bros. He doesn't live in the traditional NY Mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, but in his own Upper East Side residence. He frequently rides the NYC subways to work at City Hall, even when the alerts are up.

There's an article on Wikipedia which has lots of info on his political opinions/aspirations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

For my part, I can't buy that he's NOT running for President. He changed his political affiliation from Democrat to Republican in an opportunistic move to become NYC's mayor, he paid millions upon millions of dollars in his re-election bid which he was bound to win anyway, and he can fund a Presidential run without asking for a single donation. Now, when he can't run again for Mayor of NY, he's changed his political affiliation again: if he's not running for something, why bother? :shrug:

I've been thinking that if Fred Thompson runs (as seems increasingly likely), he'd get the nomination without a sweat. I figured he'd be the one we'd have to run against: now, I'm not quite so sure of that. We've been all but destroyed by two terms of the "MBA President", now we're threatened with the CEO-Billionaire President? Fuck.