Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg thinks the rest of the country could learn a thing or two from the policies in California.
The former New York City mayor opened his first campaign office in California in Los Angeles on Monday, telling supporters that he admired the state for being a leader on issues like gun control and protecting illegal immigrants.
“I think that California can serve as a great example for the rest of this country,” Mr. Bloomberg said, City News Service reported. “You have led the way on climate change, on fighting gun violence and on criminal justice.
“And you have, as importantly, welcomed immigrants with open arms,” he said. “Because unlike our president, you understand immigration doesn’t threaten America, immigration strengthens America.”
Conservatives, including President Trump, have pointed to California’s homelessness and drug crises as examples of the setbacks of unrestrained liberalism. Mr. Bloomberg, however, claimed Monday that the Golden State “is something the rest of the country looks up to” and has “been a leader in an awful lot of things,” the Associated Press reported.
Samantha Zager, a regional communications director for Trump Victory, the joint effort between the Republican National Committee and Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign, responded to Mr. Bloomberg’s comments in an statement to City News Service on Sunday, saying the former mayor was a “complete embarrassment as mayor and he has brought those same socialist policies with him on the presidential campaign trail.”
“From his radical stance on the Second Amendment to his attempts to regulate every detail of Americans’ lives, Californians have already seen what a Bloomberg presidency would mean for them,” Ms. Zager said.
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We’re learning about California alright. About who not to vote for and what not to allow or do. What a maroon you are Bloomberg!
Yup. IF CA is for it. THE REST of the nation, should be AGAINST IT.
I remember Trump saying one time that someplace was a Shi*thole. If you look up Shi*thole in the Dictionary, it says California. Yes I want my state to be filled with illegal aliens living on the sidewalk and having to read a map for all the feces to avoid in the streets. I’m retired but I don’t think working tax payers want to support people that refuse to work or learn to speak English. When Bloomberg opens his mouth Sh*t comes out. How are these people going to get what’s coming to them? I’m pretty sure the Easter bunny and the tooth ferry are out.
Being there’s sites out there TRACKING the piles of feeces out there, of course it’s a ****hole.
He’s right. California has 12 percent of the population but 34 percent of people on welfare. Let that sink in. 1/3 of the US population on welfare lives in California.
And as of fiscal year 2017 they were in debt for 1.3 Trillion dollars.
LETS hope the fed have the BALLS to say “WE WON’T bail you out!”
Here’s another “fun fact” about California: 25% of the population is illiterate.
I am surprised its not higher..
The illiterates are collage graduates and vote Democrat.
He’s kinda right. California can serve as an excellent BAD example for the country. Otherwise known as a “cautionary tale”. Make the same absurdly ridiculously stupid mistakes as CA and your state can also end up covered in drug needles and human feces.
But on the plus side, they are drowning in debt and people/businesses are fleeing as fast as they can. So there’s that.
But as often said, MANY OF THOSE fleeing, are bringing their SAME IDIOTIC liberal policies with them..
I have lived in California since 1974 and I can assure you that true Californians are fed up with the example that Democratic controlled California has been to us and the rest of the nation.
Bloomberg is wealthy, but that does not cover up the fact that he is deranged.
THEN WHY ARE You not voting these scum OUT?!
OK… so this jackass thinks the rest of the country should import 100s of thousands of illegal aliens.. run their state on a debt they could …NEVER… pay… increase cost of housing so no one can afford it… embrace MS-13…. and let piles of human waste stack up on the sidewalk. Great platform… thumbs up there Mikey… go for it!
Apparently the idiot, Bloomberg, has not been in California or paid any attention so what is happening there…I don’t think any state wants to follow in California’s footsteps!!!!
SANE californians don’t want CA to be in the mess they’re in..
Dems just can’t seem to stop expressing their contempt for America & all it’s citizens, the legal ones anyway.
Bloomberg is an arrogant pompous dilettante wannabe tyrant overlord.
He even garbled his message re: it obvious to all that CA is a leader in a lot of awful things – not an awful lot of things.
How to shoot up, not share needles, use sidewalks for restroom, pay high taxes and many more lessons too numerous to list! Boomberg is a bigger idiot than I first thought!
agree with you, Calif USED to be a fine leader in a lot of things until Brown came back. The difference between walking San Francisco and the 90’s is a far cry from now. You can only ask them to move their tents on the sidewalks, you can’t make them. Too many defecate on the doorsteps of businesses and leave their free needles everywhere. Can’t ride BART, you’ll get accosted or worse. LA was dirty back then, can’t imagine it now.
You don’t hear Nancy P. talking about her San Francisco!!! It USE to be a beautiful place, in fact most of California was a beautiful place, then the demo-dummies took over…
Take a look at it now!!! What a shame!!!
You have GOT to be kidding me! Well, at least he has shown us what he is – no moderation in this candidate! No common sense.
he is dodging vetting process by not participating in Dem debates.
lots of ads, sound bites but no substance. What I have found so far:
– believes in wide open immigration.
– Climate change zealot
– Second Amendment repeal, except for elites like himself.
– When he says “America” he means himself and other well off progressives
You left out legislate us into total submission, but he can’t do that if we are armed.
AND tax us into obscurity.
and don’t forget he wants to re-make the White House with open cubicles
Yes. Please California, show us how we can all have gigantic homeless encampments; human feces and hypodermic needles in the street; huge illegal populations ignoring (or exempt from) our laws while leeching public services; unnecessary wild fires because of lack of land management; insane governmental regulations on nearly all human activity (building, private land use, etc); on and on and on.
I don’t know how anyone can take this fool seriously.
1000 comedians out of work and this jerk’s trying to be funny.
Unbelievable.
No thanks, Mr. Bloomberg!
While you may add “eliminating plastic straws” to the list of accomplishments, there are many other things California is neglecting;
-the homeless population
-putting illegals above American citizens when it comes to education, homes, public assistance, etc.
-letting the urban area sidewalks become infested with feces, spent needles, third-world diseases, etc. Now they are reduced to defecating in supermarkets because the sidewalks are too filthy.
-Severe water rationing and absurd fines, because they have not spent any money on infrastructure (Dams) to collect rainwater and snow melt for the growing population- instead using it to pander to illegals.
-Almost any fines now are severely punitive in nature (red light cameras, etc.)
-Sanctuary cities that harbor many MS-13 thugs that have murdered more folks than ll those in mass shootings across the nation!
So, that’s a big NO from me, Mr. B
What he calls accomplishments, i call BULL…
Yeah, but we’ve got a great train to nowhere. Welcome to California, but bring your own tent.
This idiot has just ruined his chance of being elected.
California is THE worst state in our country; people poop on the streets and shoot drugs…. it is essentially a terrorist home base for the libs and socialists and illegals to war on the USA
As soon as Mr. Bloomberg is elected President, he will outlaw all large-sized, sugary soft drinks. That should solve all our problems, and make everything move along like a California rapid rail system. Maybe he can ask Jerry Brown to be VP, because Jerry will need something to do, until we can elect him governor again.
Excuse me, they’re coming to take me back inside now.
He wants to take away our guns along with Gov. “Blackface” Northam of Virginia and George Soros. I invite all three of them to come and try to take mine.
They’ve already passed red flags laws here in your neighbor to the North, Maryland. In my county, Anne Arundel, the cops have already come to people’s houses heavily armed and confiscated legally owned weapons, no court order needed! As for your situation, you can thank all the “enlightened” people in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. Most people in the Great State of Virginia are good, decent, and law abiding. Unfortunately, I’m afraid the influx of highly paid government contractors with their ultra-liberal educations in Northern Va has doomed the rest of the state.
ANd how is that “Seizing guns, no court order needed” LEGAL?? SUE THE COPS and the state for violating your rights!
Amazing how NO ONE mentions how Bloomie made his billions! Could it be because he made it all on [gasp] WALL STREET? Quick, someone tell Fauxahontas and Bernie!
Yes, and he can thank Trump for that, because of Trumps policies, Wall Street is booming. Only a democrat made richer by Trumps success at moving the stock market up would actually cut off the hand the feeds them. Democracy is a total failure, regardless of the place or the time. The reason they’re doomed is because they have a serious problem from the neck up.
DemoSocialist politicians have turned California into a bum-ridden, crime-ridden, tax-ridden hellhole with the largest population of bums and criminal illegals in the nation. Yes, we can learn a lot from California – such as how NOT to run a state.
Go on the internet and check out the total CA debt to see how the DemoSocialists have managed the state finances.
Gavin Newsom has allowed more than 700 brutal criminals to escape the death penalty. – another example of how the Demos favor criminals.
the dems not only favor criminals –they are criminalcrats–
the evidence grows each and every day
Which is why we must get out and vote.. ALL OF us conservatives.
I didn’t think there was anyone dumber than AOC, this guy just proved me wrong. But then, they’re both from NY…’nuff said.
It is a brilliant example of what NOT to do.
That is exactly why we should never vote for a democrat, period, he is saying that the rest of the country should be a crap hole like kalifornia, how can anyone in their right mind even consider that?
But California is next to perfect, in a left wing socialist society. California is a perfect example of what the liberal Dem’s are trying to create, and it’s also a perfect example of why it won’t work, ever.
I’ve lived here for 50 years and in the process of moving. There are homeless people in every neighbothood, living in tents, sidewalks, shopping carts turn on their sides, and in their cars on the street or in parking lots of shopping centers.
Heroin needles in the streets.
People pooping in the sidewalks and in the street.
People peeing on buildings.
The government giving preferential treatment to illegals.
Theft crimes of less than $950 not being prosecuted.
Often taking a hour and a half to drive 20 miles.
Highest taxes in the country, including property tax, sales tax, employment taxes, income taxes…it just doesn’t stop.
If it’s not taxed, there’s a fee. Recently they limited how much water a person can use per day or pay a huge fine-through the individual water agencies.
There’s are many reason people are leaving CA, it’s unsafe, too expensive, and filthy.
Good luck, Harrison. It’s a shame such a great state has come so low under the Democrats. Unfortunately, the younger generation is being educated by ultra liberal nutcases, so naturally they are inculcated with these stupid ideas. My two daughters are in that highly educated, ultra liberal category. My son, thank God, didn’t succumb to the nonsense in college.
There’s are many reason people are leaving CA, it’s unsafe, too expensive, and filthy.
PITY way too many of them fleeing, are BRINGING their insane liberal ideals with them!
When I leave California, I ain’t taking anything, but my American flag, my dog, and my guns with me, and maybe my lady friend.
Pity more are not like you, and LEAVE their liberalism behind..
I really want to be like California. I want to step in human excretion, and get stuck by used hypodermic needles just walking down the street. I also want to park my car where someone can break into it, and steal with no repercussions, or rob me on the street again without repercussions. I appreciate the homeless defecating in the isles of supermarkets. The tents blocking the sidewalks, and sewage overflowing onto the streets makes me want to go there. Outrageous taxes, and regulations are just what the rest of the nation needs. Well excuse me, but I would rather live somewhere else…almost anywhere else with the exception of New York City, Seattle, Portland, and Washington DC.
Choices are getting less and less, huh?
Also lead the Country on companies leaving the state, residents leaving the state, unfunded tax liabilities, rampant homelessness, high crime, etc. Everything is a fortune and taxes are through the wazoo. But that’s never reported! It’s a beautiful area but “hell” to live in. Our Country is now working better than it has in years, the last thing we need to do is follow CA’s example and ruin our prosperity. If Dems would let the hate go and work for the company it would be even better, they make me sick!
This man is an idiot. I do not know how he had the smarts to become a billionaire.
As a California resident I can tell you California is no example for anyone unless you want to learn how to ruin a once beautiful state.
He’s proof positive, one doesn’t need brains to make it rich.
It ain’t hard to become a billionaire, making the first million is the hard part.
I don’t know what he;s smoking, but I want some. I live in Ca. and it’s the model of a third world country. It’s almost impossible to find anyone that can speak english and forget manners. I;m sure what old Bloomie likes about Ca. is the harvesting of votes so all democrats can win. when the polls close, over 1/2 of the Republicans are winning, by morning all the democrats have won. The people did not get to vote for this, the democrat Ca. Congress passed the law and the rest of us have to live with it. Now they are trying to overturn 13, so they can have more money to blow on the train to no where.
What we should learn from California is what NOT to do! Idiots running the state are now losing people by the thousands, moving to other states. They, and Bloomberg, are apparently too stupid to check out and read the tons of information rejecting the socialist crap coming from the United Nations on “Climate Change”. Just one book, “Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science”, lays bare all the facts on the socialist agenda behind the “Global Warming Caused By Man” fraud, names names and provides facts that apparently cannot be refuted by the so called “scientists”.
No thanks, Mr. Bloomberg! I know what you are up to. You come here ,Kiss A## and make a grate Flop in the State that has all the VOTES, legal and illegal and the electoral votes that you think mite win you the Nomination. You are not Kiss my A##.
This is a “killer moment” for Bloomy. I liken it to Hillary’s comment that she was gonna put the coal mines in the country out of business. Neither of these pols thought before they spoke. Dumb, Dumb, Dumb!
With this fool…pull up the pant legs…it’s too late for the boots.