Bloomberg Used Prison Labor To Make 2020 Campaign Phone Calls
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Via The Intercept:
FORMER NEW YORK CITY mayor and multibillionaire Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg used prison labor to make campaign calls. Through a third-party vendor, the Mike Bloomberg 2020 campaign contracted New Jersey-based call center company ProCom, which runs calls centers in New Jersey and Oklahoma. Two of the call centers in Oklahoma are operated out of state prisons. In at least one of the two prisons, incarcerated people were contracted to make calls on behalf of the Bloomberg campaign.
According to a source, who asked for anonymity for fear of retribution, people incarcerated at the Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center, a minimum-security women’s prison with a capacity of more than 900, were making calls to California on behalf of Bloomberg. The people were required to end their calls by disclosing that the calls were paid for by the Bloomberg campaign. They did not disclose, however, that they were calling from behind bars.
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I think this is a bit of a stretch. Won't vote for Bloomberg due to his policies on guns & soda and his promotion of the nanny state, but to blame him for the resources that a private company uses? He hired / contracted with a private firm which happens to provide jobs for incarcerated prisoners. Not really a gotcha moment IMO.
I’ve never received a spam political call that made me want to vote for anyone. Hopefully this spam will backfire on him.
What a pile of BS.
Here, let me help you:
There, I fixed it.
Many major US corporations use prison labor this includes the US Government.
Prison labor makes 100 per cent of all helmets for the US Military.
This article is a real swing and a miss.
Here our cities/towns are close together. I can hit another city in a matter of five minutes and they all share a county jail. I passed through one city the other day and they had prisoners setting up the town Christmas decorations.
I disagree. It's a pure dinger over the center field wall. This is simply classic Democrat hypocrisy.
Complain about low wages and lack of jobs and then pay the lowest wages possible and not hire from the available work force. Hiring inmates over able bodies folks who ARE NOT incarcerated just reeks of hypocrisy. And a billionaire doing so just to save money makes it even worse.
Dinger!
Bloomberg is not a Democrat. He is an independent who has the understanding of politics to not run as an independent and thereby unintentionally help Trump.
Sorry John, he's running as a Democrat. Most of his platform leans liberal.
So the apple is still an apple.
Again, which he claims he didn't know. And how about Trump who hired people and never paid them. I guess he gets a pass?
Wrong John. He is running as a Democrat in a field of democrats. Sorry, he is not liberal enough for you.
I didn't call John a liberal. Please read more carefully, and you shouldn't be labeling.
Again, its his campaign. The buck stops on his shoulders. No mulligans or free passes. Just like Trump never gets from the media.
Hmmmmm did i give Trump a pass? Is this article about Trump?
I'll grant you that the Buck stops with him, hence why he acknowledged it, instead of brushing it aside.
Tacitly you did if you voted for him. And when people claim outrage over one candidate's behavior, they have to be just as outraged when it comes from someone they support. And it is as much about Trump as it was about Shiff.
C'mon man.
Show me a candidate who meets all your expectations and i'll show you a candidate who will never exist. My choices were made for me by the system that exists today. The candidate i really preferred didn't make it through the Democrat primary so you don't have me read properly at all.
Yeah, like a lot of people i voted for Trump. The lesser of the two evils offered. The thought of that other person getting in was unconscionable to me. Still is in comparison to Trump.
I'm not laughing. You take things too far.
Utterly preposterous. This is why we have a "war" going on. So be it.
Yes so be it John because you are making it so. Another act of the unconscionable.
So be it and you better buckle up. It's going to get much worse for you in 2020
People who truly believe that Trump is fitter to be president than Hillary Clinton was should not be allowed to vote.
Here, fixed it for you:
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Any call about voting for somebody make me more likely to vote against them, just the same as any call wanting me to buy something or give money turns me against the caller
LOL Charger... then you must vote for no one. All I get is robo calls
Why would I do that? According to my future son in law, they all say they didn't do it and then physically and or sexually threaten him.
Funny, I live in a small rural town on the AZ/Mexico border and I do not recall when the last time I recieved a call about a political poll or asking to support a particular candidate. I guess I should consider myself fortunate to live where I do.
Indeed!
From the same article:
LOLOLOLOLOLOL.. at least one other time... and a republican doing it. Talk about not news.
How silly. This reminds me of a seed complaining that Trump cheats at golf.
This seed is implying that Bloomberg himself knew that this particular subcontractor was using prison labor and approved of it.
Damn, politics is a slimy game; no wonder it is difficult to get good candidates.
Is anyone aware that the Federal Prison Industries operating under the name UNICOR is a US government owned company which uses prison labor.
This article on Bloomberg contracting with a company that uses prison labor is really a huge nothing burger if you consider that the US GOVERNEMENT has it's own company that uses prison labor.
They have been involved in DOJ inspections and they are the group that produced faulty helmets to the US military. They are government themselves so the contracts are no bid in reality.
In addition dozens of major US corporations use prison labor.
Kavika..
Facts hurt.
I do wonder why we don't get more out of our prisoners. We feed them and provide them utilities all day, and what do we tax payers get back for it? There are plenty of potholes here in Michigan needs filled and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do it. Not to mention Trump's Wall. Wouldn't it be poetic justice to have imprisoned border jumpers building Trump's great wall for a fraction of the price to us Americans? That's how you get Mexico to pay for the wall.
Mexico is never paying for that wall. That should be obvious at this point.
That's getting pretty off topic but I didn't vote Trump assuming he would make that happen. I always took it as a "hold my beer and watch this" type statement. I have no problem investing in the security of my own country as a tax payer same as I would invest in my own home security. I would rather do that then send soldiers and resources to countries that hate us and our way of life.
You might have taken it as a "hold my beer and watch this" type statement, but I am sure that the crowds chanting with Trump believed him. And while I agree with border security and investing in it, I believe in smart security and a wall is not that.