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I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.
Michael Bloomberg
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Michael Bloomberg
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: February 14
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Former Mayor Of New York City
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Michael Rubens Bloomberg
Michael R. Bloomberg
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