Morning Jolt: These New Candidates Come with Heavy Baggage

Let's close out this week with a quartet of surprises . . . that may not be quite so surprising, depending upon your level of cynicism: Michael Bloomberg was apparently a raging sexist before running for mayor; Deval Patrick made an egregious decision about a convicted sex offender while governor; Rashida Tlaib has run afoul of Federal Election Commission rules about payments to candidates; and Ivanka Trump has turned out to be a lot wonkier than I expected.

Michael Bloomberg, Notorious Creep

The New York Times reminds us that Michael Bloomberg, the divorced and never-remarried 14th-richest man in the world who has declared he's automatically going to heaven, was once notoriously crude in his public comments about women:

It was a cheeky birthday gift for a hard-charging boss, a 32-page book of one-liners compiled by colleagues at his company. "The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit ...

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These New Candidates Come with Heavy Baggage Jim Geraghty Let's close out this week with a quartet of surprises . . . that may not be quite so surprising, depending upon your level of cynicism: Michael Bloomberg was apparently a raging sexist before running for mayor; Deval Patrick made an egregious decision about a convicted sex offender while governor; Rashida Tlaib has run afoul of Federal Election Commission rules about payments to candidates; and Ivanka Trump has turned out to be a lot wonkier than I expected. Michael Bloomberg, Notorious Creep The New York Times reminds us that Michael Bloomberg, the divorced and never-remarried 14th-richest man in the world who has declared he's automatically going to heaven, was once notoriously crude in his public comments about women: It was a cheeky birthday gift for a hard-charging boss, a 32-page book of one-liners compiled by colleagues at his company. "The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit ... Read More ADVERTISEMENT Top Stories The GOP's Jackson Pollock Impeachment Strategy Jonah Goldberg When you throw everything against the wall to see what will stick, don't expect the result to be a coherent picture. Impeachment Theater of Trolls Kyle Smith The Democrats know they're engaged in a futile exercise that exists only to draw attention. They don't have the muscle to take out the president. Black South Carolina Leaders Distance Themselves from Buttigieg Campaign's 'Douglass Plan' Tobias Hoonhout Devine, Thigpen, and Cordero all denied that they intended their correspondence with the Buttigieg campaign to be read as an endorsement of the candidate. ADVERTISEMENT Elise Stefanik Stood Out on Day One of the Impeachment Hearings John McCormack New York representative Elise Stefanik was clearly the strongest Republican questioner of the first day of public impeachment hearings. A Defining Statement of Modern Conservatism Rich Lowry The fundamental lesson of "A Time for Choosing" is not that we need another Reagan in the sense of someone exactly replicating his policies and tropes. But we do need national politicians who, like Reagan, have a worldview that they have thoroughly absorbed and thought through. New York County Passes Bill That Could Jail People if They 'Annoy' a Cop Katherine Timpf This week, the Monroe County legislature in upstate New York approved a bill that would make it illegal to "annoy" a police officer or first responder — and violators could face up to a year in jail. An Icon for Saint Greta Thunberg John Hirschauer In San Francisco, a Biblia pauperum for Thunberg disciples. Katie Hill Accuses McConnell of Prioritizing the 'NRA's Money' Over 'Our Kids' after Calif.... Mairead McArdle Two people were killed and three injured when a 16-year-old male student opened fire Thursday morning at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita. ADVERTISEMENT What NR Is Reading Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent Michael R. McGowan & Ralph Pezzullo “An excellent look into the murky world of Undercover. McGowan proves to be one of the top UCAs in the FBI. A must read.” — Joseph Pistone, aka Donnie Brasco LEARN MORE Photo Essays Venice Flooding Apollo 12 ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.