Chris mcnickle lecture on bloomberg

Examine the bipartisan legacy of a remarkable billionaire politician

Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory against all odds just weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack left him facing challenges unlike any mayor in history. For the next 12 years, he kept the city safe, managed budgets through fiscal crises, promoted private sector growth, generated jobs, built infrastructure, protected the environment, supported society's cultural sensibilities, and achieved dramatic improvements in public health.

Bloomberg was an activist executive who used government assets boldly and wisely for the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. His time as mayor was not without controversy. Bloomberg supported stop and frisk police tactics that a judge ruled unconstitutional, and jailhouse violence rose to levels so severe

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Michael Rubens Bloomberg &#;born in Boston on February 14, to a Jewish family-- is an entrepreneur who elected mayor of New York City just after the 9/11 terrorist attack. He was facing myriad of challenges unlike any mayors in US history, and he proved to be successful in governing the city and restoring it from the severe destruction.

During his eight years of twelve years tenure, he kept the city safe with the record low crime (then touted as the safest big city in America), managed budgets through fiscal crises, generated jobs, built infrastructure, improved public health, etc.

However, his remarkable success was tainted by his ambition to run the third term of mayoralty despite it&#;s out of rule.

He forced a change in the city charter &#;which limit the mayoralty term to högsta two consecutive terms-- to allow him to serve a third term. Despite elected for the third term, his performance declined.

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The Inaugural McNickle Lecture on Integrity in Government

PROGRAM

Please join us at Roosevelt House as we proudly present the inaugural McNickle Lecture on Integrity in Government, featuring Nicholas Confessore, political and investigative reporter at The New York Times and a writer-at-large for the Times Magazine, covering the intersection of wealth, power, and influence in Washington and beyond.

Drawing on his recent landmark report on data integrity, regulators, and referenda in Silicon Valley, Mr. Confessore will speak on Zuckerberg’s Dream, America’s Nightmare? The Future of Policy and Politics in a Privatized Public Square.  Mr. Confessore’s other recent work for the Times has focused on super PACs and campaign finance issues in the and presidential campaigns.  He was part of a team of reporters whose coverage of the downfall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting.

Before joining the paper in , Mr. Confessore was a