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    Sergio HernandezJohn Cook
    5/03/13 11:34am

    John Cook also deserves credit for putting me in touch with the Yale folks in the first place.

    And shout-out to Elizabeth Wolstein and Raffi Melkonian, of Schlam Stone & Dolan, the lawyers who supervised the original lawsuit and litigated the appeals.

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      -______-Sergio Hernandez
      5/03/13 11:51am

      bloomberg pls

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    KatieInAtlantaJohn Cook
    5/03/13 11:26am

    If I had to guess, this was a preemptive move by Bloomberg. If he wins this case, he might not have to turn over emails (in other cases) that could do some real damage.

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      XyzzyKatieInAtlanta
      5/03/13 11:37am

      It seems to me there was nothing preemptive. He fought as hard as he could to avoid releasing them and only did so because he exhausted all his options. He had no choice.

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      KatieInAtlantaXyzzy
      5/03/13 11:54am

      No, I meant that his fighting the release of innocuous emails is preemptive. As in, "I'm fighting this now so perhaps I won't have to fight the release of damning emails later."

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    김치전!John Cook
    5/03/13 11:33am

    All questions beginning with "Why did Bloomberg...?" can be answered with "Because he's a dictatorial, bumptious, censorious shitass."

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      CheeseSandwichJohn Cook
      5/03/13 11:37am

      And this children is one of the hall mark problems of education in this country. Too many people in too many positions of power with no understanding at all of the educational realities on the ground.

      I laugh so I don't cry.

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        AssFault on the Highway to HellJohn Cook
        5/03/13 12:06pm

        Obv'y before she left office, she commissioned a student at an underperforming local school to sew her a gray felt shirt in home economics class in exchange for some much-needed grocery money.

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          XyzzyJohn Cook
          5/03/13 11:38am

          Sergio, thank you so much for this reporting. The details are hilarious and at the same time it opens a window into the dirty machinations of ed. politics under Bloomberg.

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            araucaniadJohn Cook
            5/03/13 11:47am

            Bravo Gawker and Sergio Hernandez.

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              vegetablelollipopJohn Cook
              5/03/13 12:07pm

              In addition to being an "imperial asshole" (very well chosen and apt words, John Cook) and a "secretive, entitled, arrogant prick," Bloomberg is also a predatory racist. Let's not forget his stop-and-frisk campaign and vilification of all black males because of the behavior of some black males in the city. How could anyone from a historically oppressed minority group like Bloomberg, who is Jewish, endorse so overwhelmingly and zealously a kind of police-state profiling system that mirrors the kind of hateful surveillance tactics used in the past on his very own ancestors? What kind of soulless parasite ignores the inhumanity of racism? By Bloomberg's filthy illogic, and by Ray Kelly's degenerate illogic, most Euro-American bankers in NYC should be stopped-and-frisked because some of their unbelievable malfeasance has blighted our nation manifold. And so I say, spit hurling from my lips as the words crack out of my mouth: Fuck you, goddamn racist Bloomberg—may you rot in motherfucking hell with all the other arrogant bigots who bought their elections you filthy secretive, US-constitution-rolling-back-scum-eating-piece of petrified shit.

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                madameboJohn Cook
                5/03/13 5:54pm

                Whatever. The only reason the HR guy who hangs up on Post reporters is still employed at Hearst is because he was BFFs with Cathie and now his ever-expanding personal finance editor wife (with the compulsive shopping issue and the 6 grand cockapoo)—they gain after getting that 7 carat ring amirite? —gets Hearst editors on The Today Show (with increasing less frequency. I might add). And is still a big time ASME judge despite not having edited a magazine article in more than a decade!

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                  Drunk FairyJohn Cook
                  5/03/13 11:41am

                  Why?

                  Because Bloomberg is a tyrant who doesn't believe in transparency and accountability among government officials, including himself. He answers to the rich liberal elites of New York City, not the plebs of NYC.

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