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...Audio of remarks Bloomberg made at the 2015 Aspen Institute conference surfaced in which Bloomberg defended his mayoral administration's policy of heavily policing black neighborhoods using stop-and-frisk, arguing that "Minority neighborhoods" have more crime and making derogatory comments about young men of color.
...Keel's DSA colleague Jefferson Hodge mentioned that he knew five or six people in local Democratic politics who had been offered gigs by the Bloomberg campaign at around $8,000 a month; Hodge said he would no longer call them friends.
...Bloomberg wraps up his speech, walks offstage, greets the audience for a few minutes, and leaves, to the tune of "Beautiful Day" by U2. Bloomberg hasn't done a townhall-style event yet, where he'd have to take more questions from the audience, and he doesn't do much retail politics.
...In Greensboro, Bloomberg punched back at Trump's taunts about his height; Trump has branded him "Mini Mike." "My answer is Donald, where I come from, we measure height from the neck up," Bloomberg said.
...Particularly among older black voters I spoke with - a key demographic on which the Biden campaign is counting for support - there's a sense that Bloomberg is best equipped to defeat Trump, and several said they found Bloomberg's apology for stop-and-frisk at the start of his campaign sufficient.
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