{"id":568,"date":"2007-07-29T14:52:50","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T21:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:11:19","slug":"guess-this-answers-my-question-about-mayor-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Guess This Answers My Question About Mayor Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20070729\/bloomberg-sexual-harassment\/\">From the AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NEW YORK &mdash; Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks his mind and that is a big part of his cachet in anything-goes New York.<\/p>\n<p>But new details from a sexual harassment lawsuit he settled in 2000 and other racy comments over the years show how his blunt style could prove a liability if he runs for president as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Before his election as mayor in 2001, Bloomberg was the target of a sexual harassment suit by a female executive who accused him of making repeated raunchy sexual comments while he was chief executive of his financial company, Bloomberg LP.<\/p>\n<p>Among the allegations in the complaint:<\/p>\n<p>_Bloomberg asked the woman who sued if she was giving her boyfriend &quot;good&quot; oral sex.<\/p>\n<p>_He said &quot;I&#8217;d like to do that&quot; and &quot;That&#8217;s a great piece of a&#8211;&quot; to describe women in the office.<\/p>\n<p>_When he found out the woman was pregnant, he told her &quot;Kill it!&quot; and said &quot;Great! Number 16!&quot; _ an apparent reference to the number of women in the company who were pregnant or had maternity-related status.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the AP: NEW YORK &mdash; Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks his mind and that is a big part of his cachet in anything-goes New York. But new details from a sexual harassment lawsuit he settled in 2000 and other racy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=568\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-bloomberg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}