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Jeff Goodell

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Jeff Goodell

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Bloomberg gets frustrated with the slow and complicated nature of Washington politics. He thinks real progress happens by starting with local communities and building upward, rather than relying on top-down decisions.

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