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John Surico

JOHN SURICO writes for the Village Voice and other publications.

Mike’s Labor Legacy

By John Surico

In his 2006 inaugural address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg vowed to avoid “partisanship and prejudice.” Over the next three years, he would leap up a hundred spots on Forbes’s Billionaires List, the single largest increase by any individual in the world.

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