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Torr Leonard

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Housing, transit, unions, gun control, police reform, healthcare reform, civil rights, voting rights, education, taxation, climate, alt energy. Opinions = mine

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    1. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "Just five or six years ago, it would have been impossible, he told me, to persuade his colleagues to refuse donations from the Police Officers Association. Javellana has observed the same dynamic among police unions in south Florida."https://newrepublic.com/article/159706/police-unions-bully-politicians-new-york-deblasio …

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    2. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "Greg Casar, an Austin city councilman who recently convinced all nine of his colleagues and the mayor to refuse campaign contributions from the Austin Police Association, said that the implication is clear"

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    3. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "Though police unions continue to exert influence by traditional means—endorsing candidates, contributing to campaigns, and threatening work stoppages—a sinister edge necessarily attaches itself to their political activities."

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    4. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "Even mundane lobbying efforts are inflected by police’s ever-present authority to use force or refrain from doing so. Bekemeyer said that while it’s hard to demonstrate empirically, “people know that police officers have guns, will use guns, do use guns.” Threat is “baked in”

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    5. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "Until recently, most politicians competed for police union endorsements, which functioned as an easy signifier of their commitments to public safety & blue-collar workers. Police orgs can direct significant resources to campaigns for mayor, city council, and district attorney"

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      Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

      "In 2019, police unions from all over the country together spent $700k in an effort to stop @chesaboudin from becoming SF's DA. (Boudin, a former public defender and the son of Weather Underground activists involved in the deaths of two cops in 1981, nevertheless won.)"

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        2. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

          "And although police strikes are illegal, unions threaten informal slowdowns and sick-outs (known as “blue flu”) to influence city leaders."

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        3. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL 20 Oct 2020

          "Schrader notes that mayors listen when unions tell city hall, “‘If you don’t give us what we want, crime’s going to go up, and your mayoralty is going to go down the tubes."

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        4. Torr Leonard‏ @torrHL May 26

          Torr Leonard Retweeted Brian EdwardsTiekert

          Good on CA AG @RobBonta for not taking donations from police unions:https://twitter.com/bedwardstiek/status/1397255539193630720 …

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          Brian EdwardsTiekert @bedwardstiek
          NEWS BROKEN: California Attorney General @RobBonta told @CatsCommentary on @kpfa his campaign for election will reject/return any contributions from "law enforcement". (AFAIK he's the first incumbent Attorney General in the country to announce that as a matter of policy.) 1/ https://twitter.com/bedwardstiek/status/1396921273020665857 …
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