A friend of mine spends part of his summers at the Bohemian Grove getaway for the elite. He always invites me. I would rather walk into a burning house. In July or August he told me Bloomberg was telling everyone there he is "definitely" running for president (as a Democrat). Yecchhhh.Early Monday, reports started circulating that his political team was vowing to spend more money on electing female congressional candidates in the midterms "than any individual ever has before." God save us! How about spending it on the best candidates regardless of gender? Oh, wait-- he has too burnish his image with women for 2020... I get it. So supposedly he's spending $80 million on the midterms. I haven't been able to find out how much of that is earmarked for women candidates-- nor which women he's bankrolling.At an EMILY's List event, he said "I will be putting more money into supporting women candidates this cycle than any individual ever has before because if we're going to win, it's going to be women that get us there. And I want to do my part."Yesterday, Elena Schneider reported for Politico that Everytown for Gun Safety, a group Bloomberg funds "is rolling out a $5 million digital ad campaign targeting 15 House races," which were targeted just at DCCC Red to Blue candidates, targeting suburban districts that the DCCC has decided are "top tier." The GOP incumbents targeted and their Democratic opponents are:
• CA-48: Dana Rohrabacher v Harley Rouda• CO-06: Mike Coffman v Jason Crow• CO-06: Karen Handel v Lucy McBath• KS-03: Kevin Yoder v Sharice Davids• MN-03: Erik Paulsen v Dean Phillips• MI-08: Mike Bishop v Elissa Slotkin• NJ-03: Tom MacArthur v Andy Kim• VA-10: Barbara Comstock v Jennifer Wexton
The open seats being targeted-- and the Democratic candidates) are CA-49 (Mike Levin), NV-03 (Susie Lee), NV-04 (Steven Hosford), FL-27 (Donna Shalala), MI-11 (Haley Stevens), NJ-11 (Mikie Sherrill ) and WA-08 (Kim Schrier).Let's see... any progressives on the list? Mmmmmm... well, a couple are relatively progressivish. But no Berniecrats, that's for damn sure. And not a single one who's signed on to our Medicare-For-All co-sponsor page, even though I invited several to do so.
