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$1.5 billion in direct subsidies, lmfao Burn america to the ground
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Real hurthling! posted:after rents blow up it'll be So Long! island city so... 2 years ago?
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Real hurthling! posted:after rents blow up it'll be So Long! island city Another neighborhood to have lots of techie weirdos wandering around talking about their next great app idea.
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Nov 13, 2018 23:17
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Finally, something to get Cuomo and de Blasio to work together (against bipartisan opposition to this obvious liberal corporate giveaway).
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Gunshow Poophole posted:She's so loving good at media holy crap mac and cheese....we stan a legend
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Nov 14, 2018 03:08
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Real hurthling! posted:after rents blow up it'll be So Long! island city it's really Astoria/Sunnyside/Woodside where it's going to hurt the most. I really hope we get AOC out here protesting.
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Nov 14, 2018 03:16
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Matt Zerella posted:it's really Astoria/Sunnyside/Woodside where it's going to hurt the most. She's a Congresswoman, you want people in the state legislature to pass some law barring it or otherwise make things hell enough for the Governor to make it impossible, like voting against the relevant budget item. Since this is Cuomo and Amazon there's a chance Republicans will come on board and it might have veto-proof majorities in both houses.
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My newly elected state assemblywoman lives super close so hopefully I’ll bump into her soon and ask her what she thinks about it She recognizes me so it’s not like I’ll be a completely random dude haranguing her Mh new state Senator also just replaced an IDC guy (peralta) so maybe she’ll have a good position idk
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Nov 14, 2018 03:34
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Absurd Alhazred posted:She's a Congresswoman, you want people in the state legislature to pass some law barring it or otherwise make things hell enough for the Governor to make it impossible, like voting against the relevant budget item. Since this is Cuomo and Amazon there's a chance Republicans will come on board and it might have veto-proof majorities in both houses. if her position is anything like what I understand Joe Crowley's evolved to be (part of it was just by seniority but still) then she'll have a biiiiiig sway with the city and state one of our comrades works in city govt and spent weeks lookin like a ghost after that primary because it was such a bombshell
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Gunshow Poophole posted:if her position is anything like what I understand Joe Crowley's evolved to be (part of it was just by seniority but still) then she'll have a biiiiiig sway with the city and state You don't just get that automatically from winning election to any individual federal position. You build that up through clout in the local machine, and he's still got that.
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I'm ready for my free money now. And healthcare, and education, and weed. Like, now. I don't want to work anymore, please give me income for no reason.
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Speaking of AOC: https://twitter.com/libbycwatson/status/1062534985859678209 Edit: Back to the LIC Amazone: https://twitter.com/RosaGoldensohn/status/1062502174851252224 Absurd Alhazred has issued a correction as of 04:06 on Nov 14, 2018 |
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Assemblyman Ron Kim just jumped up a ton of spaces on my "best people in NYC politics" list. He proposed a bill to slash funding for corporate handouts and use it to buy back student debt. I didn't really trust him from the start and thought he only reluctantly went along with that nail salon crackdown, but I'm always willing to change my mind if someone deserves it. I'm not sure if it was thought of independently of this announcement or whether it was a response, but you can't argue against the timing. In non-Amazon news, I went to this meeting tonight. I heard about it via the Crown Heights Tenants Union email list today  The reason they sent this out today on short notice was because, as the email put it, it might be the only chance to tell Cumbo to her face to go against these new projects. Needless to say, the snake didn't bother showing up, and Clarke didn't either. Mosley was the only elected official at the event, and as much as I don't like him, Cumbo really did him dirty. All of these projects will be tall buildings that are mostly unaffordable to the people in Crown Heights and will cast big shadows over the neighborhood and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. It was very clear that Mosley had no idea about any of the details of these projects- most of the people in the crowd knew more than he did. It's definitely his job to do his research and inform his constituents (his nearby colleague, Diana Richardson, did all of the work informing people about the Bedford Union Armory), but it was very clear that Cumbo took advantage of his ignorance and threw him to the wolves. Basically, Crown Heights is going to become Manhattanized much quicker than I thought, and it's all because of Laurie Cumbo.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:if her position is anything like what I understand Joe Crowley's evolved to be (part of it was just by seniority but still) then she'll have a biiiiiig sway with the city and state Crowley was partnof leadership because he specifically was elected into the role, not because of the seat he held. AOC ain’t gettin there right away. Looks like the Crowley job is shaping up to be a showdown between our own Hakeem Jeffries (meh), and Barbara Lee
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GalacticAcid posted:My new state Senator also just replaced an IDC guy (peralta) so maybe she’ll have a good position idk update: https://twitter.com/DaveCoIon/status/1062754068312047616 good things happen when you chuck out IDC shitheads
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GalacticAcid posted:update: hell yeah
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CaptainPsyko posted:Crowley was partnof leadership because he specifically was elected into the role, not because of the seat he held. AOC ain’t gettin there right away. I met Hakeem years ago when I still lived in Brooklyn and he seemed fine, but I remember him being an attorney for Viacom or something like that before getting into politics so beware of succ I haven't really followed his career/policy positions recently so ymmv
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CaptainPsyko posted:Crowley was partnof leadership because he specifically was elected into the role, not because of the seat he held. AOC ain’t gettin there right away. i prefer jeffries over yvette clarke, who is a do-nothing nepotism case, but i'm skeptical because he's already a self-styled local power broker in brooklyn and i'm leery of anyone who craves that kind of power in such a short amount of time. i'd rather have nydia valezquez
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I managed to overcome my anxiety and phone my two state legislators to raise concerns about the Amazon deal. We'll see if that helps.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I managed to overcome my anxiety and phone my two state legislators to raise concerns about the Amazon deal. We'll see if that helps. Good on you! Every bit helps
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Thanks! Seems like the state senate is having some meeting next week, so it's a good time to bring it up. I made sure to tie it to the various Upstate development scandals that the Cuomo admin is embroiled in, which hits closer to home up here in Albany, and to mention that it seems Queens representatives aren't very happy with it.
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get that OUT of my face posted:well, if it took jeffries that short of an amount of time to become a serious contender for the #4 house democrat, AOC could become a force sooner rather than later. not counting her and max rose, he's the second-least senior house democrat of the NYC delegation. only grace meng has spent less time in congress 100 percent Rose will be out in 2020. He only just barely got elected cause he's the first Democrat in some to really loving work at it, it's the first time I ever had Volunteers for someone sowe up to my house. They were all over the ferry for weeks. But it's still a place that went 56 percent for Trump. Cause while the North part of the island can pretty Blue (which will change as they gentrify the neighborhood) the Mid Island and South part are red as hell cause that's where all the rich fucks and cops live
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He’s actually right. It just ought to be attached to ending the farce that our legislature is “part time”. Give them a raise, make them quit their other jobs as lawyers or whatever else.
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KomradeX posted:100 percent Rose will be out in 2020. He only just barely got elected cause he's the first Democrat in some to really loving work at it, it's the first time I ever had Volunteers for someone sowe up to my house. They were all over the ferry for weeks. But it's still a place that went 56 percent for Trump. Cause while the North part of the island can pretty Blue (which will change as they gentrify the neighborhood) the Mid Island and South part are red as hell cause that's where all the rich fucks and cops live speaking of that part of SI, why did Lanza lose 20% of his votes to a blank ballot?
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https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/1063424549033820160 I wish they'd call what he got passed "removing state protection from Yeshiva students", instead.
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change the constitution to protect our rights to have stupid children
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Real hurthling! posted:change the constitution to protect our rights to have stupid children Just criminally undereducated. I was reading a couple of threads from ex-Satmars, and I know an ex-Hassid personally. 
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https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/new-york-state/simcha-felder-fades-into-insignificance.html Get hosed Simcha!
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Finally, something to get Cuomo and de Blasio to work together (against bipartisan opposition to this obvious liberal corporate giveaway). I like how it's so blatant how they are trying to ramrod the whole thing through for both the tax breaks and development plan. Also if Amazon is so desperate to have the plan after doing intensive research on best quality life of cities then why are the subsidies even needed? It's almost like getting away with a massive robbery was just as important as the other factors...
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Moster/Yaffed does great work, with very few missteps. Really hoping that some of Felder's damage to frum communities can be undone, which is not a popular opinion in my zipcode.  Absurd Alhazred posted:Just criminally undereducated. I was reading a couple of threads from ex-Satmars, and I know an ex-Hassid personally. The Satmar schools are some of the worst, and a lot of that is due to the community's stance on speaking non-Jewish languages and other assimilation issues. Look at the list of yeshivas who refuse to allow inspectors in and compare that schools implicated in school lunch fund scams and other Satmar shenanigans. Besides education there is a huge issue of child abuse, including sexual abuse, More normal hasidic communities still have huge education gaps for adolescent boys, and the PEARLS initiative/group is taking approaches in appealing to legislators and popular culture in ways very similar to how the Gur and other large Polish hasidic groups responded to assimilation and education pressures in interwar Poland*, which has been fascinating to watch contemporary rebbes taking pages from their great-grandpa's playbooks. (* Allow us to have control of things and we will bring things into compliance, find a compromise, just give us autonomy, c'mon we're voting for your most conservative politicians, trust us.)
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cuomo statement up it's a bunch of whiny bullshit lmao
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Cuomo was on Brian Lehrer this morning, and amidst his usual cavalcade of prevaricating and evasion, he made a clear, unequivocal, unqualified statement that if he were handed a bill to abolish vacancy decontrol, he’d sign it. With a democratic senate, it’d be nice to hold him to that one.
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GalacticAcid posted:cuomo statement up
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Is this the most he's ever been in the media or something? I heard complaints that he rarely gets interviewed. Enjoy this lengthy interview with NYC's Deputy Mayor for Gentrification.. I mean, for Housing and Economic Development
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CaptainPsyko posted:Cuomo was on Brian Lehrer this morning, and amidst his usual cavalcade of prevaricating and evasion, he made a clear, unequivocal, unqualified statement that if he were handed a bill to abolish vacancy decontrol, he’d sign it. vacancy decontrol says that if an apartment is vacant, the rent can be raised (as in, disregarding previous rent control) but rent control is a lovely way to solve housing problems to begin with, so shouldn't this be super low on the priority list?
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