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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.
Zephyr Teachout
Anti-corruption is a core constitutional value. It always has been.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
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."
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
Parties are fun, but they don't create community.
Zephyr Teachout
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.
Zephyr Teachout
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.
Zephyr Teachout