{"id":2454674,"date":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321057"},"modified":"2020-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T07:00:00","slug":"bloomberg-campaign-comes-to-glenwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/bloomberg-campaign-comes-to-glenwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg campaign comes to Glenwood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diana Taylor speaks about Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg ahead of the presidential primary at the Morgridge Commons in Glenwood on Monday afternoon.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Republican or Democrat, Michael Bloomberg is still Michael Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the former New York mayor\u2019s campaign surrogate and partner Diana Taylor told an audience Monday in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe believes in health care for everybody at an affordable rate, he believes in combating climate change, he believes in education, he believes in all the things that I think everybody wants for themselves and their families,\u201d Taylor said at a campaign stop in Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republican Party has gone way to the right, and (Bloomberg\u2019s) values are now more affiliated with the Democrats than they are with the Republicans. But he has not changed his values one iota,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Garfield County Democratic Party has asked every presidential campaign to come to the county, but only Bloomberg\u2019s campaign responded according to county chair John Krousouloudis.<\/p>\n

Taylor, a banking industry executive and former New York superintendent of banking, who also is Bloomberg\u2019s romantic partner of 20 years, recently stepped into the role of campaign surrogate. Monday\u2019s informal stop at Morgridge Commons was one of several events on the Western Slope.<\/p>\n

Many of the 50 people in the audience had already made up their minds for Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I saw that he was in the race, I thought, \u2018This guy\u2019s built a business empire, he\u2019s run New York City, I think he\u2019s going to be really effective,\u2019\u201d said Eagle County resident Claire Noble, who has already mailed in her primary ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cRunning New York City for 12 years really, really, really impressed me,\u201d said Chris Coyle of Carbondale.<\/p>\n

Open questions<\/p>\n

A frequent criticism of Bloomberg\u2019s political record is his support of stop and frisk, and his comments defending them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way you get the guns out of the kids\u2019 hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them,\u201d Bloomberg said at a 2015 Aspen event, according to recently resurfaced audio from former Aspen Times journalist Karl Herchenroeder.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg has apologized for the policy multiple times since announcing his campaign in November.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I didn\u2019t fully understand the unintentional pain it caused young black and brown kids and their families. I should have acted sooner and I should have stopped it, and I didn\u2019t, and I apologize for that,\u201d Bloomberg said at a Saturday campaign stop in Virginia, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n

Taylor, responding to a question about the wisdom of apologizing for stop and frisk, defended the reasoning behind heavy policing of minority areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City, and a lot of other cities, had a huge problem, and that was, the kids were dying in the street,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look at black and brown boys and young men, (guns are) the highest cause of death,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg looked at the fastest way to solve the problem, and decided that if you get guns off the street, they can\u2019t shoot each other, according to Taylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fastest way to do that was through stop and frisk,\u201d she said, adding that Bloomberg also addressed education and community issues, founding what eventually became President Barack Obama\u2019s My Brother\u2019s Keeper program.<\/p>\n

Getting to the White House<\/p>\n

Bloomberg has been running a campaign against Trump while the other Democrats are focused on the early primary states, according to Taylor.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael is everything (President Donald) Trump wants to be,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

But to get the nomination, Bloomberg will have to win big in the March 3 primary extravaganza known as Super Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u2019s self-funded campaign has 10 times the number of people on the ground in Colorado as other campaigns, according to one staffer.<\/p>\n

Colorado is one of 15 Super Tuesday states where candidates seek a big win March 3.<\/p>\n

One attendee said he appreciated the event, but that he would still support Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar in the primary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t change my mind. I think Mike Bloomberg is a fair enough candidate, but I worry about two rich guys from New York City fighting in the battle for the presidency,\u201d Nick Kelly said.<\/p>\n

tphippen@postindepedent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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