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Michael Bloomberg

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.

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Michael Bloomberg is saying that the constant lawsuits during elections in New York make the process ridiculous and difficult. He believes these legal battles increase the cost of running for office, which discourages many people from trying to run.

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