[rad-green] 'I Bough...—I, I Got Them ': Bloomberg Almost Admits to Buying Members of Congress

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/26/i-bough-i-i-got-them-bloomberg-almost-admits-buying-members-congress
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/26/i-bough-i-i-got-them-bloomberg-almost-admits-buying-members-congress>Common
Dreams          February 26, 2020'I Bough...—I, I Got Them': Bloomberg
Almost Admits to Buying Members of Congress"When people show you who they
are..."by Jake Johnson, staff writer*

*Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg looks on during the Democratic
presidential primary debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center on February
25, 2020 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)*

Billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg almost said during the Democratic
presidential debate in South Carolina Tuesday night that he "bought" the 21
freshman members of Congress he financially supported in the 2018 midterm
elections.

"Let's just go on the record. They talk about 40 Democrats," Bloomberg said
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/25/mike-bloomberg-congress-donations/>,
referring to the number of House seats Democrats gained in 2018.
"Twenty-one of those are people that I spent a hundred million dollars to
help elect. All of the new Democrats that came in and put Nancy Pelosi in
charge and gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I
bough...—I, I got them."

Critics seized upon Bloomberg's "Freudian slip" as evidence of the
billionaire's outsized influence on the U.S. political process and belief
that he has control over the politicians who take his money. The former New
York City mayor has already spent more than $400 million
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/15/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-spending.html>
of
his personal wealth on advertising thus far in the 2020 Democratic
presidential primary.

"When people show you who they are..." tweeted
<https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1232524040977473536> *TIME*
editor-at-large
Anand Giridharadas.

Watch:

"I bough-- I got them" -- a Freudian slip from Bloomberg
pic.twitter.com/tE9ANV711D <https://t.co/tE9ANV711D>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 26, 2020
<https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1232480499588681728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), who was elected to the House in 2018, wrote
<https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1232496395153637376> in response
to Bloomberg's remarks, "Let the record reflect you did not and cannot buy
my seat."

"We prefer our politicians unbought," added
<https://twitter.com/sunrisemvmt/status/1232486241515515904> the youth-led
Sunrise Movement, which endorsed
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/09/grasping-scope-climate-crisis-and-fully-embracing-green-new-deal-youth-led-sunrise>
Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president.

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