By: Chris Sandersberg
Word has gotten out that presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg’s daughter Emma has secretly gotten hitched to a man described as a “disgraced charter school advocate.” It is her second marriage.
The groom in question is Jeremiah Kittredge, one-time chief executive officer of an organization that was decidedly pro-charter school.
In fact, it appears the couple enjoys secrecy. The wedding has been nobody’s business for a year. In fact, she also did not make public her divorce from her previous husband.
The nuptials were handled by Rabbi Daniel Gropper of the Community Synagogue of Rye in Westchester County.
Before, the only hint of Emma’s re-marriage came in a previously unnoticed January 2019 synagogue newsletter. It welcomes the couple and Emma’s daughter from her first marriage, Zelda, as new members, and wishes them “Mazel Tov,” or good luck, on their marriage,” reported the New York Post. “Kittredge led the once prominent Families for Excellent Schools, which spent nearly $10 million on TV ads and lobbying for charter schools in 2014, after Mayor de Blasio succeeded Bloomberg as Mayor. Kittredge was an outspoken critic of the city’s public schools.”
Nearly two years ago, in 2018, Kittredge was canned by Families for Excellent Schools-Advocacy, in the wake of sexual harassment allegations that stemmed from an incident that occurred in November 2017.
Politico reported that the female in question wrote about the incident on social media, leading to the eventual investigation. “At the time, the woman wrote: ‘Just three weeks ago, at the single ed reform conference I attend each year, another attendee, a guy much younger than me, sticks his head in my chest, tells me my boobs are supple (seriously? Who uses that word?) and then rides up an elevator with me late at night commenting on how big my boobs are.’ The post was immediately sent to members of Families for Excellent Schools’ board. He was fired nearly two months later,” reported The Daily Mail.
Bloomberg has had some rough going. Progressive filmmaker and activist Michael Moore blasted the Democratic National Committee for allegedly lowering the standards allowing candidates to participate in the next primary debate, saying that the rule change is an effort to help Bloomberg buy the nomination without demonstrating popular support.
“I watched the debate in Iowa here two weeks ago — the all-white debate — and the fact that the Democratic, the DNC will not allow Cory Booker on that stage, will not allow Julian Castro on that stage, but they are going to allow Mike Bloomberg on the stage? Because he has a billion (blank)ing dollars!” Moore told Real Clear Politics.
