Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign has struggled to fully address the nominee's well-documented history with women and people of color. One key aspect of that struggle is Bloomberg's own company, Bloomberg LP. Indeed, some of the candidate's purportedly most outrageous remarks were originally memorialized by his own employees in an actual booklet that has been passed around, samizdat -style, for decades by his former staffers, journalists, and political operatives.
The booklet β "The Portable Bloomberg: The Wit and Wisdom of Michael Bloomberg" β was crafted by Bloomberg LP employees looking to roast their boss by compiling his allegedly most crude, sexist, and seemingly off-color quips over the years. It was presented to him as a gift for his 48th birthday, on Valentine's Day Insider recently obtained a copy of the booklet, and is publishing it below.
The Washington Post first published the document on Saturday morning, as part of a larger package about Bloomberg's behavior toward women. The paper's story builds upon Business Insider's original investigation , in November , into a number of lawsuits filed by former Bloomberg employees. It was a "smoking gun of sorts: an actual example of literal hard-ass words," Wolff wrote in New York magazine , which extracted some of the book's more salacious epigrams.
Wolff verified the book's contents by contacting a former Bloomberg executive named Elisabeth DeMarse an editor's note introducing the book is signed "E.
Her introductory note made clear: "Yes, these are all actual quotes. No, nothing has been embellished or exaggerated. And yes, some things were too outrageous to include. DeMarse said Bloomberg was quite proud of the book at the time. He wanted everyone to get a copy.
