The program will start promptly at 6:00 pm.
Space is very limited, and RSVP is required by September 4.
$20 fee for non-CUP Members.
Please contact Ashleigh at agibson@nycup.org with any questions or to RSVP.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Born on February 14, 1942 in Boston and raised by middle-class parents in Medford, Massachusetts, Michael Bloomberg was taught at an early age the values of hard work and civic responsibility. He attended Johns Hopkins University, where he paid his tuition by taking out loans and working as a parking lot attendant during the summer. After college, Mike went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1966, at the age of twenty-four, he moved to New York City to take a job with Salomon Brothers, an investment bank.
With a vision of an information company that would use emerging technology to bring transparency and efficiency to Wall Street's trading firms, he founded Bloomberg LP in 1981. Today, Bloomberg LP has over 250,000 subscribers to its financial news and information service. Headquartered in New York City, the company now has employees in more than 100 cities.
As his company grew, Mike began to devote more of his attention to the issues that he felt most passionate about. He became a generous donor of his time and resources, and he has sat on the boards of numerous charitable, cultural, and educational institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, where the prestigious School of Hygiene and Public Health was renamed the Bloomberg School of Public Health in recognition of Mike's dedication and commitment to health care issues.
Already deeply involved in New York civic affairs, Mike decided he could make an even bigger positive impact on the city by running for office and bringing his brand of independent leadership to City Hall. He defied the pundits and upset the entrenched political order by winning the votes of New Yorkers looking for leadership after the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
While many wondered about New York's future after the attacks of 9/11, Mayor Mike brought the forward-looking agenda, optimistic spirit, and independent leadership necessary to get New Yorkers through that uncertain time. He took bold action to create jobs and grow the economy. He wrested control of New York's schools from the unaccountable Board of Education and instituted much needed reforms. He cut crime even further while fostering positive community relations and protecting New Yorkers against terrorist attacks. He built affordable housing, expanded parkland, and improved efficiency in the City's agencies.
In 2005, Mike was re-elected by the broadest, most diverse coalition of support in the history of America's largest city. He ran for re-election on his record of lower crime, higher graduation rates, more jobs, and less wasteful spending. Endorsed by every major newspaper and a broad coalition of labor unions, business associations and other groups, Mike's victory united New Yorkers of every ethnicity, from every neighborhood, and from every political party behind his vision of an even better future.
Mike has built and expanded on the successes of his first term in his second. Crime continues to fall due to the NYPD's vigilant efforts; test scores and graduation rates continue to rise as a result of the much-needed reforms that have turned around the public school system. Due to Mike's reforms, New York serves as a model for other cities across the country and around the world. Yet Mike has refused to rest on his laurels. Instead, he has tackled new problems. To staunch the flow of illegal guns into the city, he has sponsored legislation to crack down on criminals and formed a national coalition of mayors to fight for tougher gun laws. To provide parents and students with more options and better information, he has opened new charter schools throughout the city and surveyed parents about the progress the schools are making. And to create new jobs and help New Yorkers through these difficult times, Mike has rezoned neighborhoods across the city to create new jobs and housing, and developed a nine-point plan to create or save 400,000 jobs by providing small businesses with much-needed loans to allow them to stay in business, investing in infrastructure projects that provide New Yorkers with quality jobs, training workers for the jobs of the future and changing tax policies that discourage job creation. Across all five boroughs, Mike continues to work hard to make each borough of New York City a great place to live and work.
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