Mike Bloomberg wants you to text him back

[brooklynite]

Cleveland Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As part of his multimillion investment in Ohio presidential campaign, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is trying to slide into your text messages.

Bloomberg, a Democrat, has already launched an ad blitz in the state and hired a staff of nearly 100 people. The latest move for the campaign, which has eschewed the traditional route of focusing on the first-four states instead opting for later, more delegate-rich territory is reaching out to voters via text message.

“Hi I’m Jo from Mike Bloomberg’s campaign,” one of the messages reads. “With so much at stake, Americans deserve a Democratic candidate who can beat Donald Trump. Will you support Mike?”

By now everyone is used to online and television ads. They’re commonplace, especially in this election which has already seen more than $500 million spent on television alone. Even political phone calls have been around for decades.

Thougthfully, he never asks for money like Biden, Sanders and Warren do.

[msongs]

1. and sell your data to anyone with a cent to spend nt

[brooklynite]

2. No different than every other campaign...I get dozens of campaign emails every month...

from candidate I didn't sign up with. Doesn't bother me.

[Wabbajack_]

3. Great

People love getting strange texts out of the blue asking them for something

[ancianita]

4. Thoughtfully? Seriously? He doesn't ask because it's plain to his text database that he doesn't have

to.

Just HOW has this billionaire actually made his money? Has anyone looked into that?

[brooklynite]

5. Um, yes. He built a financial data/news terminal that everyone wanted to use...

Were you expecting something more evil?

Bloomberg, having designed in-house computerized financial systems for Salomon, went on to set up a company named Innovative Market Systems (IMS). His business plan was based on the realization that Wall Street (and the financial community generally) was willing to pay for high-quality business information, delivered as quickly as possible and in as many usable forms possible, via technology (e.g., graphs of highly specific trends).

Bloomberg, along with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, and Charles Zegar, developed and built a computerized system to provide real-time market data, financial calculations and other financial analytics to Wall Street firms. The machines were first called "Market Master Terminals" and later became known as "Bloomberg Terminals." In 1983, Merrill Lynch became the company's first customer, investing $30 million in IMS to help finance the development of "the Bloomberg" terminal computer system. As of 1983, IMS was selling machines exclusively to Merrill Lynch's clients; in 1984, Merrill Lynch released IMS from this exclusive deal.

The company was renamed Bloomberg L.P. In 1986 5,000 terminals had been installed in subscribers' offices.By 1990, it had installed 8,000 terminals. Over the years, ancillary products including Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Message, and Bloomberg Tradebook were launched.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I got one from him yesterday (mine was from Rhonda instead of Jo)

I'm curious where his contact list came from because I don't get many texts from people I don't know personally. I do get them from the Warren campaign because I gave them my number at one point.