Kevin Connor

researching corporate power and other things / formerly @twittlesis

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

oh and Schumer's sister-in-law is currently on the board of the Match Group, which owns almost every dating app (see below) and is itself an obvious candidate for a breakup (zing!)

she has $3m in stock & makes $300k/yr for this extremely part-time gig

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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.

https://t.co/9aXdCuQAZt

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@donnydonny Nice! Good luck

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@donnydonny What race?

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@ghkelly1969 @buffalotroll Not just husband, also law partner in the tiny practice they have together. https://t.co/g90CzVxV3L

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@petelnagy love that place, glad you enjoyed it!

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@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

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

just so we’re clear the “Irish goodbye” is merely a means of escaping the Irish goodbye process, a complex ritual that typically lasts hours (and in some cases - very rare but it does happen - gets stuck in an infinite loop)

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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?" https://t.co/3WHxGQodW9

Schwarzman promoted Trump conspiracy theories about PA results:
https://t.co/8Uh7ikyadq

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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....

https://t.co/fpEyR8ybqW has the donor stats: https://t.co/FEfXuJ25Dk #TaxTheRich #MakeBillionairesPay

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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"

https://t.co/4caTJR26yl

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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" https://t.co/xN5PpeZ1WT

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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."

https://t.co/624ZOqjMlr

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

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.

https://t.co/eChVjnLuJr

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

“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:
https://t.co/gFtSVUnkTT

#FreeThemAll

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

@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?

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

The wives of two disgraced hedge fund billionaires, Dan Loeb and Steve Cohen, maxed out to Pete Buttigieg last quarter.

Loeb has a history of making racist remarks, Cohen's firm pleaded guilty to securities fraud. Both are big education privatization donors.

[Kevin Connor @kvnc]

any good pieces out there on the leadership of the Iowa Democratic Party?

[Iowa CCI Action Fund @CCIAction]

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.