After an audio clip of Mike Bloomberg making charged remarks about young black and Latino men unexpectedly surfaced online, the former mayor's vast network kicked into action
Mike Bloomberg’s highly-disciplined presidential campaign was suddenly facing a crisis beyond its control.
Meanwhile, in a conference room at his Times Square headquarters, the mayor assembled about 20 black pastors for a pre-scheduled meeting that lasted more than two hours and included face time with Bloomberg. The meeting was originally planned to discuss Bloomberg’s latest initiative aimed at helping African Americans, but the recording quickly came up.
But Bloomberg, in the roughest 48 hours of his young campaign, rallied a vast network of black surrogates and community leaders whose causes he’s backed or personally invested in to vouch for his character as he works to contain the firestorm. Butts said Bloomberg’s financial support of causes important to black New Yorkers throughout his time in office and after helps alleviate concerns about his past embrace of the policing tactic stop and frisk. Butts recalled Bloomberg offering his economic development operation a handsome check in 2008, timed to the bicentennial of his Abyssinian Baptist Church. “He used his money, which is one of the reasons I continue to support him, to express his sincerity,” Butts said.
“It’s really ahistorical to point out [problems with] stop and frisk as if the ‘94 crime bill that pre-dated Bloomberg’s mayorship didn’t exist,” said Tubbs, referencing tough-on-crime legislation that was championed by Joe Biden and supported by Bernie Sanders.
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