Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens "Mike" Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is a businessman and mayor of New York City. Download high resolution version (500x710, 44 KB)Source: http://www. ... Download high resolution version (500x710, 44 KB)Source: http://www. ... Michael Bloomberg on Wall Street File links The following pages link to this file: Michael Bloomberg ... February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ...

Bloomberg was born and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He made his fortune selling financial information terminals to Wall Street firms. Bloomberg L.P. also began a radio network (the flagship station is 1130 WBBR-AM in New York City). Prior to founding the company, he was general partner at Salomon Brothers, where he headed equity trading, sales and, later, systems development. Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... Boston is the capital of and the largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. ... View up Wall Street from Pearl Street Wall Street is the name of a narrow thoroughfare in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. ... Bloomberg L.P. is a Financial Media Company founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1982. ... Salomon Brothers was a Wall Street investment bank. ...

Mr. Bloomberg is among the world's richest people, with a net worth approaching $5 billion. List of billionaires (in US dollars) worldwide, based upon Forbes magazines annual listing of The Worlds Richest People (2005): Names in bold face are new to the list. ...

Michael Bloomberg is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 with a BS in electrical engineering and from Harvard University with a Master of Business Administration degree. Bloomberg has since donated $100 million to Johns Hopkins University, as well as serving as the chairman of the board of the university from 1996 to 2002. ΦΚΨ (Phi Kappa Psi) is a U.S. national college fraternity. ... While the terms fraternity and sorority can be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, including the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, International and the Shriners, fraternities and sororities are most commonly known as social organizations of higher education students in the United States and Canada but... The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with the study and application of electricity and electromagnetism. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... The Johns Hopkins University is an internationally prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He has written an autobiography, Bloomberg by Bloomberg (1997, ISBN 0471155454).

Bloomberg is a practicing Jew.

His daughter Georgina Bloomberg is featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the children of the extremely wealthy. Born Rich is a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the worlds richest families. ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ...

Mayor of New York

In 2001 he was elected mayor, succeeding Rudy Giuliani, who—despite increased popular sentiment for a third term following the September 11 terrorist attacks—was required to leave office because of term limits. Bloomberg, a lifelong Democrat, ran for mayor as a Republican (or Republican In Name Only), reportedly to avoid the crowded field in the Democratic primary. He defeated Herman Badillo in the Republican primary to go on to the general election. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ... The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks carried out in the United States on September 11, 2001. ... A term limit is a provision of a constitution, statute, or bylaw which limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... RINO stands for Republican In Name Only, a disparaging term for a member of the United States Republican Party whose words and actions are thought to be too fiscally or socially liberal. ... A primary election is one in which a political party selects a candidate for a later election by all registered voters in that jurisdiction (nominating primary). ... Herman Badillo (born August 21, 1929 in Caguas, Puerto Rico) was the first Puerto Rican to become a U.S. Congressman. ...

In the general election he also had the ballot line of the Independence Party. With Giuliani's endorsement, he defeated the Democratic candidate, Mark J. Green, by 50%-48%. The Independence Party is a political party in the U.S. state of New York. ... Mark J. Green is a public interest lawyer, author and politician living in New York City. ...

Among his political positions and policies:

• He supports the movement to allow gays and lesbians the right to marry, though he has appealed a decision legalizing gay marriage because he has stated he wants to ensure it is permitted under New York State law:

"My personal opinion is that anybody should be allowed to marry anybody. I don't happen to think we should put restrictions on who you should marry.... What the city doesn't want to have happen is people getting a marriage license and then six months, or one year later, or two years later, finding out it's meaningless" [1]  (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=10&u=/ap/20050208/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage)

• In the 2001 campaign, he criticized Green for refusing to rule out a tax increase, but during his first year in office, Bloomberg proposed a 25 percent increase in the property tax. The City Council approved an increase of 18.5 percent. [2] (http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/politics/nyc-budg0131,0,6901160.story)
• He has supported moves to restrict public smoking during his time as mayor, removing the last indoor public areas where one could smoke in the city: bars and clubs.
• He supports legal abortion.
• Since 2003, he has become increasingly assertive in demanding federal anti-terrorism funds be distributed to municipalities based on risk and population rather than any other measure.
• He has been a strong proponent of the proposed West Side Stadium.

Bloomberg will be up for re-election in 2005. In late 2004 or early 2005, he gave the Independence Party $250,000 to fund a phone bank seeking to recruit volunteers for his re-election campaign. [3] (http://nydailynews.com/front/story/268291p-229740c.html) Some possible Democratic opponents may be former Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller. Bloomberg also faces some opposition from Republicans in a primary challenge from former City Councilman Tom Ognibene and investment banker Steve Shaw. Gay, in addition to meaning happy, also means, simplistically, preferring the same sex in current usage, though to tie down the word to a specific cultural meaning might be to misrespresent a huge community of individuals who find themselves described by the word gay. The term gay, or lesbian for... A lesbian (lowercase L) is a homosexual woman. ... Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage, and—less frequently—homosexual marriage) refers to marriage between partners of the same gender (for other forms of same-sex unions that are different from marriages, see the articles linked in that section). ... Smoking is cool. ... Categories: Stub ... A nightclub (often dance club or club, particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ... Terrorism is a controversial term with multiple definitions. ... The West Side Stadium (also known as the New York Sports and Convention Center) is a proposed football stadium (perhaps also serving other purposes) to be built on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City as a new home for the New York Jets, currently based at Giants... Contents // Categories: Politics stubs | Stub | 2005 elections | New York elections ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fernando Ferrer served as Borough President of the Bronx in New York City from 1987 to 2001. ... C. Virginia Fields was elected Borough President of Manhattan in 1997 and is a current Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City in 2005 C. Virginia Fields received her BA from Knoxville College in Tennessee and her Masters in Social Work from Indiana University. ... Anthony D. Weiner (b. ... New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller. ... Thomas Ognibene is currently running for mayor of New York City against incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg and investment banker Steve Shaw in the New York City Republican party primary showdown in 2005. ... Steve Shaw (born 1975) is a Republican candidate and former investment banker currently positioning himself against incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former City Councilman Tom Ognibene in September 2005. ...

See also

Election results for mayor of New York The mayor of New York is elected every four years. ...

Rudolph William Louis Rudy Giuliani III, KBE (born May 28, 1944) served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1994 through December 31, 2001. ... For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ...

External links

• Mike Bloomberg for NYC webpage (http://www.mikebloomberg.com/)
• Gotham Gazette 2005 webpage (http://www.gothamgazette.com/campaign2005/52)