New York, New York
March 5, 2020
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I must say, I was quite shocked when I received
the press release saying “Bloomberg to Lead Communist Ticket in 2020.”
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Well, you would never have received that press
release if this Bloomburg guy hadn’t kicked in a lot of dough.
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You were that low in funds?
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You bet.
At our last annual Gus Hall Lecture we had to serve store brand
bagels. We used to get a check every year
from Mr. Browder.
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Bill Browder?
The millionaire financier whose grandfather was General Secretary of the
party in the 30s and 40s? He gives money
to the communists?
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Gave – past tense. We told him we needed the money to put
together a publication of his grandfather’s speeches. I guess he finally caught on because we haven’t
heard from him for some time.
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But that all changed.
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That’s right.
One day we got a call from this Bloomberg fellow saying that he was
ready to make a sizeable donation to the Party if we would make him our
Presidential candidate.
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And it was that easy?
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To tell you the truth, we weren’t even going to
run a candidate this year, but we figure this will be a good way to get the
brand out.
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Still, it’s pretty ironic that Mike Bloomberg,
one of the richest men in the world, is running as a communist.
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Wait. It’s
that Bloomberg? I thought it was the Ike Bloomberg, the old editor at Forward. A Trotskyite is one thing, but ... but ... this is really embarrassing. I wondered where he could have come up with the money.
- What are you going to do now?
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Not much we can do. He pretty much bought the party. I wish now that I had asked some more
questions about his running mate.
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Who’s that?
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Some guy named Romney.
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