Democratic debate viewers cannot escape Mike Bloomberg
 
 
If he didn't get his message across during the debate, all former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg had to do was wait for the commercial break.
During Tuesday night's Democratic debate in South Carolina, 60-second ads for Bloomberg aired during the first two commercial breaks. This didn't go over well on Twitter, where people, like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, were upset at CBS for letting Bloomberg purchase the ad time:
Over the last three months, Bloomberg has spent more than $500 million of his own money on campaign advertisements.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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