"Pilip and her husband ... are on a quarterly schedule for estimated tax payments. Their earnings were beyond anticipated amounts, requiring them to make additional payments, which they have done."
Aug 7, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
EXCLUSIVE: The secret hand behind Andrew Cuomo’s online army? His sister, it turns out.
For 18 months, Madeline Cuomo back channeled with grass-roots groups to help smear Andrew's accusers and rehab his image. He was “seeing everything,” she said. 1/x
nytimes.com/2023/08/07/nyr…
This is a wild yarn, spun from 1000s of texts/emails shared w/the NYT and on-record interviews with leaders of a pro-Cuomo group.
It shows how far members of one of America’s most powerful families went to hound Andrew’s accusers — and eventually his supporters, too.
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Feb 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: House Democrats' main super PAC says it will pour a record $45 million into New York to try to flip back 5+ seats and with them, the House majority.
HMP's Mike Smith on the centrality of NY in '24: “It’s not just us seeing it."
nytimes.com/2023/02/22/nyr…
Smith said he is still raising the money, but assuming he can, that would be more than 3x what the super PAC spent in New York in 2022, and about twice as much as the GOP-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund spent.
Nov 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: Adam Schiff may not be putting his hand up today for a House leadership role, but Trump's top antagonist raised a $41M mountain of cash this cycle & is ruling little out: a Biden admin post, a Senate run or even a bid to lead House Ds down the line nytimes.com/2020/11/18/us/…
In politics, where campaign funds are a conduit to influence and loyalty, Schiff has spread it liberally, per campaign:
$7M for Biden,
~$4M for DCCC
~$5M for swing district Ds
$3M to Senate candidates
He kept $22M, $ that could be spent on his own future political ambitions
Sep 21, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Majority Leader McConnell, addressing the Senate for the first time since Ginsburg's death, calls hers an "an exceptional American life." He adds that she was "not just a lawyer but a leader" in American public life.
McConnell now pivots hard: "Now already some of the same individuals who tried every conceivable dirty trick to obstruct Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh, are lining up to proclaim the third time will be the charm."
Aug 3, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
FERGUSON, Mo. — A Democratic primary rematch between activist @CoriBush and 10-termer @LacyClayMO1 on Tuesday has broken open into the latest bitter fight over the future of the Democratic Party and the power of the protest movement sweeping the country
“When we were getting our butts kicked and I was maced in the face in Florissant a few weeks ago and people were getting beat on by police officers — no, no,” she said.
Jul 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
FL R @FrancisRooney tells me he supports House Dems' proxy voting program. He called it a "great idea" and "a logical response to the situation we find ourselves in."
But he's promised R leaders he'll wait to vote that way until after an upcoming hearing in their suit against it
@FrancisRooney Rooney had filed a letter with the House last month to vote by proxy but never did after R leaders said they wanted to show the court unanimous opposition.
"I've listened to their arguments but I don't really understand them. To me, it seems pretty simple."
May 6, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Exclusive: A coalition of online retailers backed by Amazon is launching a $2+ mil ad blitz opposing Trump’s demand that the Postal Service ratchet up its package delivery rates 4x to avoid bankruptcy.
First ads on Hannity and Rush.
nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/…
Many of the companies involved (CVS, eBay, Express Scripts) have been quietly lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill on the issue, but the advertising push will more visibly establish their position in a high-stakes political fight over the Postal Service’s finances and future.
May 5, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The Senate is about to do something it hasn't done in a month: Hold a hearing, this one on the nomination of @RepRatcliffe to be director of national intelligence.
nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/…
@RepRatcliffe @julianbarnes@MarkWarner opening statement: "Some have suggested that your main qualification for confirmation to this post is that you are not Ambassador Grenell. But frankly, that is not enough."
Apr 29, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pelosi names the Dem members of the coronavirus select committee led by @WhipClyburn:
Maxine Waters, Carolyn Maloney, Nydia Velázquez, Bill Foster, Jamie Raskin, and Andy Kim
@WhipClyburn Clyburn, making his first remarks as chairman: "We have no higher priority than the health and well-being of the American people."
Mar 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Mitch McConnell, opening the Senate today: "Now at last, I believe, we’re on the five-yard line. It’s taken a lot of noise and a lot of rhetoric to get us here."
McConnell: "I’m not sure how many ways to say it, madam president. The clock has run out. The buzzer is sounding. The hour for bargaining as if this was business as usual has expired. The American people need our Democratic friends to take yes for an answer."
Mar 23, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Senators, all evidence suggests, are universally furious this morning.
Collins: "We don't have another day. We don’t have another hour. We don’t have another minute to delay acting."
McConnell ripping into Democrats this afternoon: "Are you kidding me? This is the moment to debate new regulations that have nothing, whatsoever to do with this crisis. That is what they are up to over there. The American people need to know it!"
More McConnell: "We were this close. We were this close. Then yesterday, the speaker of the House flew back from San Francisco."
Feb 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Schumer and other Senate Dems on the floor to try to unanimously pass election security bills (they will fail): "Because Senate Republicans chose to look the other way, the need for election security legislation is greater than ever before. We cannot trust this president."
Mark Warner, D of Va. and vice chair of the Intel committee, is trying to push through the FIRE Act, a bill that would require a political campaign to report offers of foreign assistance to the FBI and FEC.
Feb 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@SenatorCollins: "Regardless, it was wrong for President Trump to mention former Vice President Biden on that phone call and it was wrong for him to ask a foreign country to investigate a political rival."
@SenatorCollins "While I do not believe that the conviction of a president requires a criminal act, the high bar for removal from office is perhaps even higher when the impeachment is for a difficult to define, political act."
Dec 19, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
HISTORY: A majority of the House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Trump for abuse of power. A second vote, on obstruction of Congress, will follow
At 9 a.m., the House will begin debate over articles impeaching the 45th president of the United States. An impeachment vote will pass before the day is through.
nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/…@peterbakernyt Republicans are expected to quickly move for the House to adjourn. That will require the first roll call vote of the day, and Democrats will defeat it.
Dec 12, 2019 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
Movie Nights, Camp David and Cable Messaging: A White House Impeachment Playbook
The House Judiciary Committee tonight begins a historic debate over two articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
I'm here w/@shearm for opening statements tonight. Committee votes tomorrow.
"This all boils down to one thing," @MarkMeadows tells @DanaBashCNN. "The Democrats are looking at a partisan impeachment of the president of the United States."
@MarkMeadows@DanaBashCNN Judiciary Chairman @RepJerryNadler: "We have a very rock solid case. I think the case we have presented to a jury would be a guilty verdict in three minutes flat."
Dec 4, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Doug Collins, the top Judiciary R, opening by accusing Democrats of pursuing a "political impeachment."
"This is nothing new folks."
"If you want to know what is really driving this: it’s called the clock and the calendar."
"They want to do it before the end of the year," because they are scared they will lose in 2020.
