Posted on 02/06/2020 9:51:30 PM PST by Ken H
MIKE BLOOMBERGS PRESIDENTIAL campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups.
The Intercept found that exact passages from at least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building Americas Future Educational Fund, and other organizations. Bloomberg co-founded Everytown for Gun Safety, a political organization focused on gun control, and Building Americas Future Educational Fund, a nonprofit working on infrastructure investment and reform, and has chaired them in the past, and he was listed as a co-author on the educational funds reports. He is not clearly affiliated with the other sources. The plagiarized sections ranged in length from entire paragraphs to individual sentences and fragments in documents that were between five and 14 pages long.
On Wednesday afternoon, The Intercept sent a detailed query to the Bloomberg campaign. By Thursday morning, one of the plans was completely taken down, while others were changed. Asked about the plan that was removed, spokesperson Julie Wood said the campaign would notify The Intercept when it was posted again.
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Nobody re-invents the wheel
Wholesale, across-the-board plagiarism is no accident. This was a directive from upper campaign management. Very possibly from the little Bloomberg himself. Stick a fork in him. He’s toast.
well if he stole ‘em from Biden then they were already stolen from someone else. Master plagerizer.
He was never toast to begin with, just a narcissist spending tons of money and giving regular folks paychecks as he does. Let him spend a billion or 2 for all the good it will do him politically.
Hey, Bloomberg: If you’re going to copy someone, at least find an A student to copy from.
LOL
Maybe he should have spent a little more on ideas.
bttt
Plagiarism is Joe Bidet’s specialty
Bloomberg’s a sham candidate, he’s just running to get past FEC restrictions. He’s only in to try to weaken Trump.
Nobody said Bloomberg was a genius, just that he was a good businessman.
You can be a rich blooming idiot and run for president while chewing gum at the same time.
Soon, Nancy will give Bloomberg credit for the recent good economy because of the Bloomberg stimulus, not because of Trump's policies.
I've had it up to here with Bloomberg. Hat tip PDJT.
Mr Blommberg has zero fresh ideas of his own.
If he were POTUS he’d be the Deep State’s perfect POTUS, because he is and always been just a technocrat, claiming he can run the ship better than others, but setting its course is left to the “experts” working for him. Of that he has no ideas of his own.
And he is so wimpy.
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