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Verizon Lobbyist Runs For New York Attorney General As the State Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A Verizon lobbyist is trying to become the attorney general of New York in the upcoming November election. Verizon executive Leecia Eve is one of four candidates in the Democratic primary for the seat vacated when Eric Schneiderman resigned after assault allegations from four women. If elected, Eve says she would recuse herself from Verizon matters and New York State's appeal of the federal net neutrality repeal. As a Verizon executive, Eve defended the company from the city's allegations. Still, Eve has argued that her Verizon experience will help her prosecute "bad corporate actors" -- but without being so harsh that businesses would stop coming to the state. "Her Verizon experience, Eve contends, is 'extremely helpful: I know how corporations work,' leaving her 'best prepared to go after bad corporate actors,' but 'not to radiate to business not to come to New York,'" news organization City Limits wrote Tuesday after interviewing Eve.
Eve would not be involved in investigating Verizon if she won the election. "Under ethics rules, Eve confirms, she'd recuse herself from cases involving Verizon or other telecom issues, leaving policy decisions to senior staff," City Limits reported. Eve also confirmed that she would recuse herself from the New York attorney general office's ongoing lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. Along with more than 20 other states, New York has asked a federal court to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules, a repeal that was supported by Verizon. Here's an excerpt from Eve's bio on her campaign site: "As Vice President for Government Affairs for Verizon for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, Leecia oversees policy and ensures governmental compliance for a company that innovates and invests billions in New York State and puts nearly 20,000 New Yorkers to work every day. She also serves as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey."
According to Ars, recent polls show that Eve is in last place behind three other Democrats running for the office.
Eve would not be involved in investigating Verizon if she won the election. "Under ethics rules, Eve confirms, she'd recuse herself from cases involving Verizon or other telecom issues, leaving policy decisions to senior staff," City Limits reported. Eve also confirmed that she would recuse herself from the New York attorney general office's ongoing lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. Along with more than 20 other states, New York has asked a federal court to reverse the FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules, a repeal that was supported by Verizon. Here's an excerpt from Eve's bio on her campaign site: "As Vice President for Government Affairs for Verizon for New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, Leecia oversees policy and ensures governmental compliance for a company that innovates and invests billions in New York State and puts nearly 20,000 New Yorkers to work every day. She also serves as a Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey."
According to Ars, recent polls show that Eve is in last place behind three other Democrats running for the office.
Go eat some peaches old man.
This is why companies should be automatically scheduled to be broken down once they reach a specific size/value. They should never be allowed to gain enough power to start pushing their own political agendas which favour no one else but their own pockets.
We need more laws that will help keep businesses separated from government. A lobbyist shouldn't be allowed to run for office within 10 years of lobbying for a company and vice-versa. Seriously, there are many basic anti-corruption laws that can be passed to prevent corruption and the fact that it continues to not happen is distressing.
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I wouldn't vote for her, however, that is a common irony with lobbyists - people knowledgeable about an industry often got that experience by working the business side of it.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
In other words, she plans on doing exactly what all the other lobbyists-turned-government-official have done. Force the government to bend over since ANY negativity at all will be construed as "driving business away".
You guys would do well to implement a law preventing any person who has worked for a company that would be affected by whatever office they plan to apply for for least 10 years. Plus another deal that they may not be apply for work in the field they were regulating for at least 20 years after they leave office.
Yeah, it won't really stop the revolving door, but at least they'll have to get a lot more creative to get around it.
...from cases involving Verizon or other telecom issues, leaving policy decisions to senior staff..."
And are the hiring/firing of these senior staff under her direct control?
Care killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
What did he do, shit his pants?
and smear her blood over the steps of the state captial, as a gesture of atonement
There was actually a pretty considerable outcry about the GS execs, you lying retarded faggot cheesedick Republican traitor.
And the democrats are really ready to vote for a corporate lobbyist? This is more a problem than the candidature itself.
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There was actually a pretty considerable outcry about the GS execs, you lying retarded faggot cheesedick Republican traitor.
"Cheesedick"? Haha I like it. I never heard that before!
that this Verizon lobbyist will somehow win the election because, well, you know, bribes?
Money = Power.
If she's elected, make it a condition that she will recuse herself from all things Verizon or be instantly dismissed.
She's a *lobbyist* which means she is essentially only political marketing, she doesn't know squat about the industry, only the talking points she's paid to deliver to politicians. Lobbyists do not know the business of their companies, its a different industry.
And she's not giving up her job to become a politician, she's only 'recursing' herself, which means her job is to work for Verizon even when shes a politician supposedly working for the Verizon's customers and employees. Her future income will depend on her actions during her government, and she will be totally aware of that.
It also means some lovely PACs will go her way, given the "Citizens United" corporations are "Citizens now" nonsense. Lots of marketing to support her in Verizon's agenda.
Can I connect some dots here, Cohen paid off Trump's *personal* bills (hooker silence money, payoff to his former Moscow bodyguards lawyer for 'election services'), using money taken from *corporate* bodies (Trump corps+partnerships+ election funds) using fake invoices. It was not just hiding payoffs from press, it was extracting money from companies as fake bills and using it for personal costs.
I mention it, because the inauguration fund received a shed load of money from Verizon, and the other telcos which is missing.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/01/companies-that-funded-trumps-inauguration/
That inauguration money is AWOL, it was promised to charities and it was never given.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-inauguration-money-still-missing-783934
And now we know how money is extracted from these bodies and turned into Trump money..... which is why Trump's knowledge of what Cohen did for him (e.g. the tapes, Guilliani saying Trump paid Cohen back, when in fact Cohen was paid by fake legal work invoices from a Trump company heavily in debt).
Does anybody know what Larry Sharpe's position is on Net Neutrality?
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Do you suppose George Soros knows THIS is what he's paying for? Good grief, man - go back to troll school and pay more attention to time. You're making your own side look foolish.
Let's be honest here, if they have to be THAT blatant in their attempts to force this into law, it should be obvious to anyone that it's something that they'd expect to be worth a LOT of money.
Now the question to ask is where do you think that money is coming from and who gets to foot the bill. No later than now it should be blatantly obvious just who is going to get fucked by this.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The wolf has lots of experience breaking into the chicken coop and eating chickens, so that would make the wolf the ideal candidate as the new guard of the chicken coop????
Because a person has never said one thing PRIOR to being elected and then doing the complete opposite AFTER being elected....
It's up to the voters. If they vote for her they get what they deserve.
New York hates women.
This totally isn't about Verizon wanting to influence the state! Nor is this about the revolving door of lobbyists going from business to government and back again, and never forgetting who their long-term masters are. Or where their personal bread is buttered.
It totally isn't!