Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s namesake company reportedly promoted his campaign’s website until an article pointing it out was published.
You don’t get to be a billionaire without some cheating, so no surprises here.
committed a bloomer, as the Brits say
Very efficient. Don’t want to have potential voters expend energy if they don’t have to.
A Bloomberg spokesman said on Twitter that the function has been updated and called the issue an “oversight.”
An “oversight.” Like the link was just magically there all on its own, we didn’t notice it, and therefore didn’t change it. Or, we told Bob to fix that and I guess he just forgot about doing that.
Those damn Ukrainians are at it, again!
Bloomberg was tired of Trump getting to be the single biggest threat to the future of this nation, so he decided to be a spoiler candidate.
What Bloombers’s dealio is that because he’s more rich than Trump then he can out businessman Trump. Bullshit, the President is not in charge of company or a host of companies. Government is not a business.
Anyone with a Bloomberg terminal is probably a Bloomberg (or Trump) voter to begin with, but still very wrong.
Bloomberg’s barely a candidate and already the conflicts of interest are epic. And might I didn’t become a Democrat to vote for a billionaire spending oodles of dollars on his candidacy instead of doing the hard grassroots type of work and engaging with real people on the ground. I think he’s running in the wrong party.
We all know his reason for running is that Trump is too Trump and most of the genuine Democratic contenders are not Trump enough. He’s just the baby-bear representing neo-liberal capitalism.
So have we now entered the ”anything goes” presidential campaigns?
Citizens United has got to be STOPPED!!!
We don’t know that. It could have been anyone. It could have been a billionaire sitting on his couch aboard his yacht moored in New Jersey.
I have become unpleasantly aware in recent days while streaming music on YouTube that Bloomberg has made a massive ad buy with a particularly annoying Horatio Alger theme.
Because nothing helps you appreciate Schubert better than having the music interrupted by yet another septuagenarian New York plutocrat telling you why he needs to be king-emperor.
And he was on CBS this morning lying about how he was never asked about stop & frisk until he started campaigning…
This whole thing is mostly a non-story. Bloomberg’s campaign url is mikebloomberg.com … and he has had a website of some variety at that url since 2001. Previously, the site contained nuggets of wisdom from Mikey, along with whatever agenda he was pushing at the time. When he announced his candidacy twelve days ago, the existing site was converted into a campaign site rather than purchasing a new domain or setting up the campaign site at a subdomain. So the site that had been perfectly legit to link to him on the Bloomberg terminal suddenly became questionable. But it’s because the content on the website changed, not because anyone was cooking the url for the terminal. It’s good they’ve removed the link from the terminal now, but the sequence of events actually matters here.
A more important observation is that Bloomberg LLC, which Mikey represents as a “high tech” exercise in entrepreneurialism, is sort of a hack from a software engineering perspective. The old Bloomberg hardware was completely customized (with lots of strange Bloomberg character sequences). This makes it hard to replace them. At some point, the cost of using custom built hardware (which was unusual even when Bloomberg started up). BTW, he went after Quotron, which was worse. (Quotron is no more.) At some point they decided that using standard Windows PC was cheaper, but massively customized the keyboard and character set. It is very hard to use these with standard middleware or web software. Bloomie’s problem is that there are many alternative sources for the same data now; he never understood the Internet nor did he understand the rules about raw trading data (which is more or less public domain). So those very expensive Bloomberg terminals are now not very competitive; Fidelity will give similar capabilities for free to their brokerage customers. So Bloomberg depends on keeping a bunch of aging hardware in place to hold their customer base while they try (with some success) to build up Bloomberg News, which is credible and comes over the Internet (and on their cable channel). The problem there is that while I don’t have any particular issues with them, a lot of people in retail services think Bloomberg is, well, I won’t repeat their anti-Semitic utterances here. Suffice it to say that they prefer the insider-trading besotted screaming old white guys on CNBC.