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Jeff Hauser
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PERSONAL views. Run @revolvingdoorDC. Prefer gmail over DMs. fullname@ on gmail, Bsky. Subscribe to weekly newsletter: https://t.co/on0wZZPee7
Oct 21, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
We're alarmed by reports that the Harris team is vetting crypto enthusiast Chris Brummer to replace Gary Gensler at the SEC.

Replacing Gensler with a crypto backer before his term ends in 2026 would be a capitulation to bad-faith corporate actors. 1/?unchainedcrypto.com/kamala-harriss… The SEC is America’s top financial regulator, and crypto hucksters are furious that Gensler hasn’t bowed to the industry’s demands.

In recent months, Gensler has become a top target of big donors who want to see a more corporate-friendly SEC. 2/x Image
Aug 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Traveling this summer has underscored how utterly unprepared the US is for climate change and HOW MANY LOW HANGING behavioral fruit are to be plucked.

To wit:

1. SUVs are ubiquitous, as need for SUVs... is not.
2. Homes that have (incandescent!) lights on outside 24/7. (1/x) 3. Speed limits are WAY too high. Having a rental car that told me current trip mileage underscored just how much more efficient cars are 45-60 mph than at 70mph.
4. We avoided the worst traffic jams, but observed some from across the highway. We need new best practices. (2/x)
Aug 23, 2021 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
RANT: I've worked within progressive/Democratic politics for 18 years.

My primary critique of my counterparts has been that they almost always believe the wisest strategy = most risk averse, passive path possible.

Biden's executive branch is embodying this disastrous tendency./ Outside of the FTC, what branch of the executive branch under Biden appointee control is moving fast and making an example of corporate and/or Trumpist misconduct?
Feb 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mnuchin, whose grandfather co-founded the Hamptons Yacht Club & whose Dad was a "legend" at Goldman Sachs, is doing what he has always done.

Bc he had the most respectful press shop of the Trump years he got good press, but he has always been a trash, entitled, foreclosing jerk. Mnuchin's riches to (moral) rags story...
Feb 17, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
My view is most Republican Senators are like their voters and their votes reflect their values. The more reasonable "beliefs" they share with press and Democrats behind the scenes are lies. Assuming off the record is more honest is pervasive, but not empirically based. GOP coulda blocked Trump in 2016 but didn't bc they preferred him to Ted Cruz.

GOP coulda convicted twice but didn't bc he markets them to non-college voters more effectively than anyone else.

GOP coulda allowed some oversight on stuff their base woulda cared about, but nah.
Feb 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
When reading about the anti-union zeal played by Amazon.... prospect.org/labor/warehous…

ask whether genuinely pro-union Biden will choose any of the revolving door Obama-Biden Administration Democrats for Biden-Harris Admin jobs? (1/x) Here's a list of potential Big Tech revolvers we @revolvingdoorDC maintain: therevolvingdoorproject.org/tech-in-transi… (2/x)
Dec 5, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
Insane! The @washingtonpost editorial board attacks @revolvingdoorDC research file on Jeffrey Zients for being fair enough to include the positive purpose of Zients in government (seeking efficiency) & ignoring and ignoring... washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden… (1/x) how we found out about Zients' purchase of a surprise medical billing operation. (btw, "long term holdings" wannabe Berkshire Hathaway funds like Cranemere engage in EXTENSIVE due diligence, they knew what they were doing). nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/… (2/x)
Dec 4, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
REMINDER AS YOU READ about "widely respected" attorney Abbe Lowell... many DC BigLaw lawyers are "widely respected" for... bogus reasons. It's a mutual back scratching culture. nytimes.com/2020/12/03/us/… (1/x) As the Wall Street Journal summarized... Lowell is an equal opportunity fixer for both parties. He went MAGA fixer for Jared Kushner + if indications of as yet unproven allegations bear out, maintained as much ethics as one expects for a Kushner lawyer. /2 wsj.com/articles/both-…
Nov 4, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Here's my hot take -- one I kinda believe, even as I suspect no one will agree.

COVID-19 ultimately didn't hurt, and may have helped, Trump & the GOP in the election.

Arguments:

1. Biden will end up winning by amount he was beating Trump in head to heads pre-pandemic. (1/x) 2. COVID-19 became THE STORY, crowding out...well, all of the other stories.

3. It *IS* a pandemic, & 1 that throughout October became increasingly terrible across the world. Blaming Trump for COVID-19 much less fair than blaming him for cutting taxes for rich, anti-ACA, etc 2/x
Nov 4, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
We had an alternative vision for how @SpeakerPelosi could have handled the past 2 years.

We emphasized connecting the dots between Trump the buffoon, the executive branch, and outcomes for real people.

Here's some of what we urged @revolvingdoorDC:
therevolvingdoorproject.org/tag/congressio… Now it is up to a President Biden -- and forgive me, we DO know that is what's happening -- to view running the executive branch effectively as the main way to both deliver results and de-radicalize the country. (2/x)
Oct 14, 2020 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
My thoughts on the failed Schumer-Feinstein approach to #SCOTUShearings:

1. Polling to determine the best message for paid media is not relevant to earned media strategy. This ought to be basic, but it's been hard for Establishment Democrats to understand FOR YEARS. (1/x) 2. There's a kabuki style of question deflecting that means that Democratic Senators can NOT get the storyline out of straightforward substantive questions they seek.

So ACA, Roe, etc polling is irrelevant to what questions should be asked. The question is what can get noticed!
Jul 9, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Eduardo Rodriguez myocarditis -- professional athlete, 27 -- is a BFD:
Apr 11, 2020 • 26 tweets • 11 min read
2 appalling aspects of discourse:

1. Deaths statistic is being treated as factual even when we know it's a WILD undercount. This is deeply irresponsible. EVERY sentence referencing the stats MUST include the fact it is SERIOUSLY too low.

2. MANY "models" project only 1 wave. Image SOME LINKS (but there are many out there):

nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyr…
nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/…

I *strongly* suspect red state/rural counts are WAY off, given inadequacy of testing & political incentives.
Feb 18, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Questions I have about Bloomberg's financial disclosures, which he will hide from the public until after most delegates have been allocated: apnews.com/430ff49ba38506…

1. How many of your investments vulnerable to the Chinese government? e.g., theintercept.com/2020/02/18/mik…
(1/x) 2. How recently was bloomberg long natural gas (directly or indirectly), and did that time frame intersect with his (otherwise wholly meritorious) anti-coal contributions? (2/x)
Dec 10, 2019 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
It is *really* bad that @PeteButtigieg worked for Loblaws. They were fixing prices illegally while he worked with them.

Loblaws had informants -- but none of them were @PeteButtigieg bnnbloomberg.ca/supreme-court-… @PeteButtigieg Portends pretty badly for antitrust policy in a Butigieg Administration that @PeteButtigieg thinks it's fine to have worked on pricing for a price fixing company & that's not one of the McKinsey clients about whom he is currently squeamish.
Apr 19, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I am going to highlight a few grafs from the @revolvingdoorDC newsletter from April 1st. The context has only slightly changed. House Dems must take control of their destiny and open an impeachment inquiry.

Sign up here (it's free!): revolvingdoorproject.substack.com (1/4) Unlike what quivering members of the Establishment think, an "impeachment inquiry" needn't lead to *any vote,* so the fact that the votes for impeachment are not yet secured is a pretty dumb counter-argument. (2/4)
Feb 19, 2019 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
HUGE ERROR in mega @nytimes story everyone is reading.

On the left, the NYT today: nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/…

On the right, the NYT on 1/5/18: nytimes.com/2018/01/05/bus…

How is being the lawyer for *Deutsche Bank* consistent with being a "career prosecutor"???? "Longtime prosecutor" woulda been technically accurate, although obviously Deutsche Bank past should still be mentioned.

But "career prosecutor" does not track. (1/2)
Jan 4, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
People are under-reacting to the news of the unilateral installation of Trump cronies to run the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York US Attorney's offices. At 120 days this vacancy gets kicked to local district court, which can choose to keep or replace the person (see (d): law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28… ).

That "only 120 days" allows Sessions' loayalists complete visibility into a swathe of *sensitive* law enforcement investigations.
Dec 18, 2017 • 25 tweets • 14 min read
My latest post:

9 days after Trump Campaign Chairman (Manafort) indicted for money laundering...

Trump Campaign National Finance Chairman (Mnuchin) announces a new person in charge of... money laundering.
cepr.net/blogs/cepr-blo… Here's a letter to the Counsel for the Inspector General of the Treasury Department urging an investigation into Mnuchin -- cepr.net/images/documen…

Latter is co-signed by: @AmFamValues @CREDOMobile @demandprogress @MarchForTruth17 @peoplefor @Public_Citizen