enthusiastic message of a nation ready to fall in love with michael bloomberg and convince people to vote for him, right? mark: yeah, no, i hate it when you get campaign calls, but you sort of always assume it is a genuine volunteer, and when it s not, you kind of assume they ve paid, you know, out of work actors or somebody to do it. the idea that it is a guy he s locked up in jail and has a choice between sewing mail bags or hammering license plates or making telephone calls for mike bloomberg, it doesn t seem like a good comment on the health of his campaign. no. i mean, may be, in some ways, it s somewhat symbolically fitting for bloomberg.t i mean, this is someone he s not an ideological, far left person. i guess he is a sort of centrist. but centrism can be authoritarian in and of itself. this is a man who wanted to
admitted to employing prisoners in oklahoma to make phone calls on bloomberg s behalf. robby soave is a senior editor at reason and author of theto book panic attack. he joins us now. the bloomberg campaign has severed connections with the oklahoma penal system. what actually is the objection to what mayor bloomberg accidentally found himself doing, using prisoners to make campaign calls? o yeah, i think every one, right, left, and center, is going to agree that it doesn t look good.ne it may be perfectly legal, but i don t think it looks ethical. to be using people who are locked up, to be making calls on behalf of your campaign. i mean, what kind of statement is that about your campaign, if the people you are getting excited about it, literally they have no choice but to even leave the building? so i don t think that sends an
prison, and to go to prison, only about 40% of prisoners serve a year of their time, so they are on the street relatively soon, which is how you get, in a city like baltimore, a situation we have offenders with ten priors coming at 36% of homicides are committed by people on parole. mark: is this going to get worse before it gets better? i hope not. we know what to do. we know how to attack this fooblem. we have models like the city of new york. mark: if they just elects they right kind of mayor. i think it will take political will. mark: thanks a lot, rafael. michael bloomberg entered the democratic primary late and has his work cut out for him trying to catch up.p. in a recent ad, speaking of the incarcerated, bloomberg touted his credentials as a job creator. this guy gets things done.ls bloomberg built a global news and information company by taking on of the toughest competition, creating 20,000 jobs. mike s steady leadership will build an economy where everyone can ge
the new year, right here on tucker carlson tonight. don t miss it. earlier this year, the left rallied to defend the city of baltimore against trump. now that city is about to have the deadliest year in its entire history. that s next. plus, michael bloomberg, one ofa america s richest men, so why is he using prison labor to make calls for his campaign? we will try to find out. that is coming up after the break. is coming up after the break.
i m more concerned about who is going to better the lives of the majority of americans, and that would include people of color. and also, we have to think about the fact thatr. the democratic party, if you listen to the clip that you played with simone sanders, she was talking about leadership within the party. tom perez is a dominican american from maryland. we ve got other leaders and people who have run for office, more women and people of color in congress than ever before.e, and none of them are republican, or very few. so again, i think that our party is diverse, the party is listening to people of color and to women, and that is the strength of the party. but what we need is somebody with conviction. and that is where i think bernie sanders has got a lot of strength, because he has been the same his entire career, unlike many of the other people that have run. mark: well, let me pute it this way, though. because the last time we spoke, that was when there was a little bit of c