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Amazon’s outsized power is looking less and less like smart business and more and more like oppressive politics - one company bullying us all. ”
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been. ”
Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers. ”
Women are routinely demeaned, dismissed, discouraged and assaulted. Too many women’s careers are stymied or ended because of harassment and abuse. In politics, where I have worked much of my adult life, this behavior is rampant." ”
I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can’t trust the federal government. ”
When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere. Well, that's not true. It was also not true that there's a single era of oligarchy, because we showed we could do something about it. ”
I hope the true public servants learn from this that they should not be afraid and they will get incredible grass-roots support if they call out corruption. ”
Parties are fun, but they don't create community. ”
Talking to Republicans who aren't leaders - that's not very difficult both on anti-trust and on campaign finance reform. I think it's a lot more complicated when you talk to highly funded leaders - that's the innate, deeply problematic part of our politics. ”
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont. ”