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Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg will hold a campaign event this Monday in Burlington, according to his state director in Vermont.

Details of where and when remain to be ironed out, R. Christopher Di Mezzo said on Thursday. The event will be open to the public and press, he said.

Vermont and Maine are the only Super Tuesday states that Bloomberg has yet to visit, according to Di Mezzo. On March 3, those states will be among more than a dozen that will vote in presidential primaries.

“He’s running a national campaign, and Vermont is one of our 50 states,” Di Mezzo said of Bloomberg. “He’s competing everywhere.”

WCAX-TV first reported news of Bloomberg’s visit. The billionaire former mayor of New York City joined the Democratic primary field last November.

While he faces long odds, Bloomberg has used about $250 million of his vast personal wealth to attack President Donald Trump in television ads. The 77-year-old candidate has indicated he’d spend $1 billion during the campaign and would even use that cash to support the eventual nominee in the event it’s not him.

He’ll face tough sledding in Vermont, home of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Di Mezzo, the state director, is the campaign’s first hire in the state. On hiatus as a spokesperson for the Vermont Democratic Party, Di Mezzo only started on Saturday.

“We’re looking to open an office in Burlington, hopefully in the next week or so,” Di Mezzo said.

So is he confident in Bloomberg’s odds?

“Absolutely,” Di Mezzo said. “I think he has a chance everywhere he’s competing.”

Sasha Goldstein is Seven Days' deputy news editor.

17 replies on “Bloomberg to Hold Campaign Event in Burlington on Monday”

  1. Trump and his supporters pray that Bernie will be the nominee, if not the nominee then at least the winner of many primaries who gets screwed at the convention by the super delegates sending his naieve young brownshirt followers into a rage.

  2. Two points to be made:

    1) Unemployment claims are low, because the boomer generation is checking out of the labor market, or working part time jobs. It’s not because the economy is booming; it is NOT. It is limping along at just over 2% growth, with 1.5% inflation, give or take. And many global markets are doing worse. This is a fragile time, not a boom time.

    2) I like Bernie. Gave him money, in fact. But I also like Bloomberg. He’s honest, genuine, socially conscious, and realistic about government’s role. The fact that he put himself outside the media circuses masquerading as ‘debates’, is a strategy. The DNC is obviously in thrall to, or captive of, media opportunities.

  4. The fact that there was a war in 1944 does not change the fact that unemployment was lower than it is now, although it provides a rationale. The statement to which I replied was factually incorrect. THAT was my point.

    But in any case, the WWII rationale disappears when applied to 1951 and 1952 when the rate was also lower than today’s (I didn’t bother to cite 1945 when it was lower as well, since the WWII rationale applies to about 3/4 of the year).

    The claim made by Trump and his acolytes is simply wrong. It has no basis in fact. They don’t care; I do.

  5. I know Mike Bloomberg. Had breakfast with him in NYC, when I considered an anchor position at 1010WINS.
    He’s genuine, capable, and reasonable. Like Bernie, he cares. But he also knows that to promise is one thing, to propose programs than can actually be supported financially, quite another.

    He did a great job as mayor of a city of over 7 Million, he’ll do well for our state one tenth that size.

  7. Hey JohnGreenberg, do you think the unemployment ‘rate’ in 1944 had anything to do with the all hands on deck effort to support the US war machine in WW2? From what I’ve read, everybody was working back then.

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