Bloomberg's sexist remarks fostered company culture that degraded women, lawsuits allege

ABC News ^ | December 15, 2019 | Tom Llamas , Lucien Bruggeman , Sasha Pezenik , Tonya Simpson and Matthew Mosk

[McGruff]

Mike Bloomberg has on repeated occasions faced and fought allegations that he directed crude and sexist comments to women in his office, including a claim in the 1990s that he told an employee who had just announced she was pregnant to "kill it."

"He told me to 'kill it' in a serious monotone voice," the woman alleged in a lawsuit. "I asked 'What? What did you just say?' He looked at me and repeated in a deliberate manner 'kill it.'"

Bloomberg has repeatedly denied that specific allegation -- which arose in a discrimination lawsuit that was settled out of court. But over the years a number of women have alleged in legal filings that Bloomberg’s use of lewd comments around co-workers fostered a frat-like culture at the company he founded and still owns. Quotes attributed to him in court filings include, "I’d like to do that piece of meat," and "I would DO you in a second."

[McGruff]

Welcome to the Democrat primary Mr. Bloomberg

[Paladin2]

Cut off his access to Coca-Cola...

[Springman]

Well this gives him street cred to run in the Democrat Party.

Hi McGruff, working a lot, don't get to post much.

[McGruff]

Hey buddy, Merry Christmas.

[ifinnegan]

“He told me to ‘kill it’ in a serious monotone voice,” the woman alleged in a lawsuit. “I asked ‘What? What did you just say?’ He looked at me and repeated in a deliberate manner ‘kill it.’”

Why would that bother liberals?

That’s what “pro-Choice” means.

[backwoods-engineer]

But “kill it” regarding children is official DEMONRAT policy. How can the ABC propaganda organ complain?

[familyop]

But feminism is not for bosses, you see. It’s a tool to break common families in order to keep them from rising to compete with bosses.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Kill it."

Well, it's a good thing he didn't assume its gender.

[Candor7]

The #MeToo harpies will tear Bloomberg to shreds.

SEE ME, MR. BLOOMBERG!

[pepsi_junkie]

The press doesn’t write bad stories about dems unless an Obama or Clinton tells them to. Since this is Stephanopolous’ gang, obviously this is a Clinton ordered hit.

[exDemMom]

Well, it’s obvious that someone in the DemocRAT party sees him as a threat. The DemocRATs normally do not care about sexual misconduct, so the fact that they are bringing it up means they want to take him out.

As a tool, allegations of sexual misconduct are effective against Republicans because we actually value moral and ethical behavior, and even a suggestion that a Republican is not a saint has been sufficient to suppress the vote just enough to give the win to the DemocRAT. We’ll see if such allegations go anywhere with Bloomberg.

Maybe I’m reading this wrong. Maybe Bloomberg’s decision to enter the race was a proactive defense against prosecution for sexual misconduct. Since apparently, being a DemocRAT candidate is a shield against being held responsible or even being investigated for illegal/immoral activity.

[Texas Eagle]

Well, it’s obvious that someone in the DemocRAT party sees him as a threat.

Probably Hillary.

[miss marmelstein]

Although I believe this guy will never be president, Mark Green who was way ahead in the polls to be mayor of NYC, ran a “kill it!” ad prior to 9/11. Do you know that that ad helped to kill his candidacy? The media said it was a disgrace for Green to bring this alleged incident up.

Of course, I always believed the story.