#Lobbying

1/ Thread. I think I solved #PardonGate & #PardonsForSale: *The request for pardon was for Nickie Lum Davis who worked as a consultant for Elliott Broidy.*Why?- The lobbyist last name
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Today is 6 months since the pandemic was declared.Amid heartbreak, something dark is happening at the top.Take Jeff Bezos. Say he gave each of his 876,000 employees a $105,000 bonus
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Trump Jack Abramoff, Paul Erickson & Maria Butina connectionhttps://twitter.com/potter_black/status/1022177122251665412 After Jack Abramoff was released from prison... https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/abramoff-congress-lobbying-ro
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The #KochBrothers want “freedom” alright: freedom to poison our environment and sicken our kids without government interference. We cannot let them get their polluted hands on our Constitution! #NoConCon https://thinkprogress.org/to-blo
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Between 2006 and 2010 I ran the @Childrensfood campaigning to improve children’s diets with great colleagues like @Kath_Dalmeny and @jackieschneider. We were calling for things like protecting kids from junk
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Biden announced he intends to appoint former US Rep Xavier Becerra to HHS. I’ve been seeing him lauded as a single payer supporter, so I decided to look into it.
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Tonight, my mother finally criticized Duterte in the middle of our family dinner. She's a hardcore supporter of the dictator and at many instances, I've made her cry because of
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That sound you all heard was historians of HIV/AIDS wincing at this. https://twitter.com/thattimwalker/status/1352914766440894464 The Terry Higgins Trust, the precursor to THT, was founded in November 1982. They raised money for
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Liz Truss wants the UK, EU and US to cooperate on dealing with Chinese subsidies that they think make trade unfair. Well, the UK left the EU's trade remedies system
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Thread: You know what makes this story so much better?That it sprang from the Mueller Investigation!https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/lobbyist-abramoff-charged-in-crypto-currency-case-u-s-says After seeing this story, I did
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I know local electeds have zero input on the # of doses coming to NYC but lobbying hard to get a site in NEQ seems performative. The city doesn’t even
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“If you can’t afford to pay 15 an hour you shouldn’t have a small business!” Amazon thinks so too. In fact, this mega corporation has been lobbying an increase for
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As a big stats guy, I need to get something off my chest. Yes this is me lobbying for my guy Matt Turner. When you look at the stats that
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Pony n’a pas été sélectionné pour opérer ses trottinettes à ParisPourtant, 2114 parisiens s’étaient engagés à adopter 1-5 trottinettes pony pour les partager avec leurs voisins. Eux comme nous sommes
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Exclusive: Data shows that half of 2019 donations to ActBlue came from untraceable 'unemployed' donors -Over 4.7 million donations totaled $346 Million came from people who claimed they did not
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Every day in this country, newspapers owned by billionaires living offshore tell us that the problems we suffer are caused not by the power of money, but by immigrants and
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