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11 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Hollywood deployed lobbyists close to Gov. Gavin Newsom and key Dems to win exemptions to strict California coronavirus lockdown interc.pt/3a1dWph
Newsom was caught indoor dining w multiple households last month at the French Laundry. He was celebrating the birthday of Netflix lobbyist Jason Kinney. Netflix has tripled its lobby spending and won the right to continue filming in LA as other businesses are shut down.
California listed the television and movie film studio industry as “critical infrastructure” allowed to avoid the shut down, given studios permission to avoid nightly curfew orders after Paramount Pictures, Disney, Warner Bros, Netflix & the MPAA spent big to lobby the governor.
The viral video this week of an LA restaurant w outdoor distanced dining shut down next to a NBCUniversal film shoot allowed to stay open? NBCUniversal retains Mercury Public Affairs, which counts the former LA mayor & Dem Speaker as lobbyists to shape filming rules in LA.

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Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis to win long-desired bank deregulation, raising potential for bank failures. We obtained letters showing the deregulation push. interc.pt/2LbrvVx
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Bipartisan group of lawmakers now joining the push to literally bailout corporate lobbyists using cover of 'it's only for local chambers of commerce.' fitzpatrick.house.gov/media-center/p…
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So of course now Speaker Pelosi, joined by dozens of House Democrats and Republicans, are now clamoring the bailout the Gucci loafer-clad U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Restaurant Association, the American Petroleum Institute and other corporate 501c6 lobby groups.
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