Kevin Connor
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Kevin Connor
@kvnc
researching corporate power and other things / formerly @twittlesis
Buffalo, NY انضم Temmuz 2008
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Chuck Schumer's sister-in-law was Ticketmaster's lead outside counsel on its LiveNation merger.
Schumer – then a member of the antitrust subcommittee – never recused himself. He initially pledged to fight the merger, then went silent.
news.littlesis.org/2014/02/27/sch…
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@ghkelly1969 @buffalotroll Not just husband, also law partner in the tiny practice they have together. callocchialaw.com/about-us.html
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@buffalotroll Never mind, I found it. It's worth noting that Callocchia's husband, Frank, represented Brown in in his ballot lawsuits.
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@JerryGoldfeder @MayorByronBrown @SellsBryan you keep attempting this framing as if you are defending democracy, when in fact you are just propping up (and profiting from) a two-tiered legal system where people who have the money to buy lawyers like you don't need to play by the rules
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A month into Trump's coup attempt, Blackstone CEO and GOP donor Stephen Schwarzman: "If you got a call from the president, you'd probably help him, wouldn't you?" businessinsider.com/blackstone-ceo…
Schwarzman promoted Trump conspiracy theories about PA results:
ft.com/content/558f2a…


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Asked what he feared most about impact of budget cuts on NYC, Cuomo's biggest billionaire donor said...taxes: "The thing that I worry about most is stupid legislation, such as what happened in Albany last year with residential assets, and unsustainable tax increases.”
Michael Kink@mkink
Here's Governor Cuomo's biggest billionaire donor cheering Democratic losses, in case you're wondering why New York's high-profile leader has been underground for days.... MakeBillionairesPay.info has the donor stats: makebillionairespay.info/andrewcuomobeh… #TaxTheRich #MakeBillionairesPay
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Ken Fisher: "There was no landslide either way, and it looks like gridlock will ultimately win the day...[stocks] like gridlock...fundamentals on this front are shaping up nicely, in our view"
fisherinvestments.com/en-us/marketmi…
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Steven Roth: "I think pretty clearly the sweep is off the table. And I think that's from my point of view and probably from most folks' point of view, a very, very good thing."
seekingalpha.com/article/438501…
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Wall Street billionaires cheer Dem losses/deeply divided country, set their sights on austerity:
Leon Cooperman: "the most important thing that came out of the election results thus far is the repudiation of the left" fool.com/earnings/call-…
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Check out our new report on the Chamber, its push against use of the Defense Production Act to produce PPE, and its corporate backers. One finding: @3M, maker of N95 masks, has both a board seat and meeting room at the Chamber.
public-accountability.org/report/unmaske…
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“Do not let our lives be lost because of the almighty dollar. Our lives count, as does everyone else on this earth.”
A group of detainees at Batavia Federal Detention Center have issued a powerful statement:
justiceformigrantfamilies.org/new-page-2
#FreeThemAll
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@markpoloncarz @TheBuffaloNews @ECDOH Isn’t travel to an affected area one of the criteria that qualifies people for tests (along with hospitalization, other conditions)? So people who have symptoms who haven’t traveled, aren’t hospitalized, and don’t have conditions aren’t getting tested?
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Good update from @TheBuffaloNews on the local #Coronavirus/#Covid19 cases and actions @ECDOH and I are taking:
Erie County coronavirus patient total stands at 7; Allegany County reports
buffalonews.com/2020/03/15/man…
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Kevin Connor أُعيد تغريده

BREAKING: 30 @CCIAction and @IAStudentAction members are refusing to leave @JoeBiden’s statewide headquarters in Des Moines over his lies about #MedicareForAll and his ties to the insurance company CEOs who are funding his campaign.

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