L. A. Mayor antonio via ago says here to explain his full throated endorsement of president ial candidate Mike Bloomberg its all on this edition of. Welcome to politicking on larry king he was elected the 1st latino mayor of los angeles and nearly a century made an unsuccessful bid for the california Governors Office and 2018 remains active within the Democratic Party most recently demonstrated by his the dorsal end of the Mike Bloomberg campaign for the presidency well talk about that and a lot more as Antonio Vieira goes joins me in studio why did you endorse Michael Bloomberg because i know because i worked with him you know the joke i like to tell the press is that. On my inauguration day. He was there al gore and a whole slew of Democratic Leaders my staff told me. Michael bloomberg is here. To why dont you and they said no but hes here so almost immediately started working from one coast to the other to improve our schools both. Maire bloomberg and myself inherited schools that w
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Dorsal end of the Mike Bloomberg campaign for the presidency well talk about that and a lot more as and tony of arrow goes joins me in studio why did you endorse Michael Bloomberg because i know because i worked with him you know the the joke i like to tell the press is that on my Inauguration Day palosi was there al gore and a whole slew of Democratic Leaders my staff told me. Michael bloomberg is here. To why dont you and they said no but hes here so almost immediately started working from one coast to the other to improve our schools both. Maire bloomberg and myself inherited schools that were failing for 50 years in my case one out of 3 schools are failing schools going to much better than that we Work Together to improve those schools dramatically or Graduation Rate went up by more than 40 percent in new york and in l. A. And he raised teachers salaries by 40 percent work and theres against gun violence you know crime big issue even though new york has a safe big city and and the
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My name is caitlin emma. I am a federal budget and congressional appropriations reporter on capitol hill for politico. Just a quick reminder to you guys here in the audience and those tuning in on the lifestream, tweet your questions with the hashtag statesolutions. I have a circuit here and i will track those and hopefully we will get to one or two at the end of our time today. So i am here with rhode island governor gina raimondo, shes serving in the second term as estates democratic governor and she recently delivered her sixth state of the dress. We have a lot to get to and we definitely want to talk on state policy with the time that we have. But i kinda wanted to start with some news that you made earlier this week regarding 2020. I saw you endorsed Michael Bloomberg for president. Youre the former chair of the democratic governor association. We have a number of candidates to choose from here. I know mayor bloomberg has previously backed your gubernatorial ambitions. But Vice Pr