{"id":7523,"date":"2006-05-26T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T16:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7523"},"modified":"2006-05-26T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T16:38:35","slug":"might-bloomberg-switch-parties-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/might-bloomberg-switch-parties-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Might Bloomberg switch parties (again)?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Usually I don’t cover mayoral issues very closely, but because New York Mayor [tag]Michael Bloomberg[\/tag] (R) is something of a national figure, I think it’s interesting that he seems to be straying<\/a> further and further from his [tag]Republican[\/tag] Party.<\/p>\n

Mayor [tag]Bloomberg[\/tag] lashed out against [tag]conservatives[\/tag] yesterday for ignoring science and common sense on issues like stem-cell research, global warming and even evolution.<\/p>\n

Making his latest foray into national issues, the mayor blamed ideologues for trying to drag the nation back decades by disputing scientifically proven facts.<\/p>\n

“Today we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don’t happen to agree with their agendas,” he told medical graduates of his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg also denounced intelligent design creationism, the conservatives’ handling of the Terri Schiavo incident, and said those who deny the seriousness of global warming are “driven by ideology and short-term economics.”<\/p>\n

This comes the same week Bloomberg announced that he would not attend<\/a> the GOP’s state convention next week.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg was a life-long Dem before he ran for mayor in 2001, but he has recently expressed liberal opinions on immigration, abortion rights, gun control, gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the death penalty. There’s also been some speculation that Bloomberg will endorse Eliot Spitzer and\/or Hillary Clinton this year. Might he switch back to the Dems? It seems like a distinct possibility.<\/p>\n

During a Fox News interview this week, Bloomberg was asked how his support for legalizing virtually all illegal immigrants conflicts with his party affiliation. He replied, “Which [tag]party[\/tag]?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s not seeking re-election, so this isn’t necessarily about job security. Maybe he’s just sick of the [tag]GOP[\/tag]. If so, he’s certainly not the only one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Usually I don’t cover mayoral issues very closely, but because New York Mayor [tag]Michael Bloomberg[\/tag] (R) is something of a national figure, I think it’s interesting that he seems to be straying further and further from his [tag]Republican[\/tag] Party. Mayor [tag]Bloomberg[\/tag] lashed out against [tag]conservatives[\/tag] yesterday for ignoring science and common sense on issues like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}