Diana Taylor, longtime partner of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, advised those bothered by his nondisclosure agreements to “get over it.”
“It was 30 years ago,” she added in an interview with CBS News.
Taylor has been romantically linked to Bloomberg since 2000 and has held many high-profile jobs in the private and public sector.
“I grew up in that world. It was a bro culture,” she said, concerning the unsavory comments Bloomberg made that prompted the NDAs. “We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.”
Diana Taylor, @MikeBloomberg’s long-time partner, tells @CBSNews about his company’s non-disclosure agreements.
“I grew up in that world. It was a bro culture… We have come a very, very long way and Michael Bloomberg has been at the forefront of that change.” pic.twitter.com/0m3m4SACG3
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) February 25, 2020
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) hammered Bloomberg about the NDAs at the Nevada debate, pressing him to release his former employees from them right there on stage. He declined, saying that all he did was tell a few “jokes.” The response elicited boos from the debate audience.
The pressure grew so great that Bloomberg bowed a few days later, agreeing to release three women who’d signed NDAs about his personal comments from their contracts. He also swore to stop using NDAs at his company, and to install other structural reforms like family leave and equal pay.
Mick Mulvaney was Bloomberg’s partner, who knew?
“Get over it” is a phrase that basically means “you are right of course, but I got away with it so stop talking about morality when it is power that counts.”
Is B’s campaign having his partner do the talking on this a good thing? Or should he be speaking for himself? I can’t decide…
Those reforms should have already been in place, but it’s good to see the pressure applied by Warren and others having an impact and forcing change. This should be what the article is about, not Bloomberg’s partner’s statement.
I agree. NDAs are common. NDAs that cover criminal behavior, which some of Trump’s NDAs do, are different. Bloomberg was not acting out of the mainstream for the time, and I believe Taylor that he has changed. There were probably few CEOs that did not tell a dirty joke 30 years ago. That is not to excuse the behavior, which was as disgusting then as it is now. But we need to talk about more serious stuff like how to beat Trump. This focus is ridiculous.