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NYS lawmaker trying out political jiujitsu

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Ron T. Kim
5 years
🧵on nursing home scandal:. On April 14 2020, Berna Lee contacted my office, fearing that her mother, residing in a nursing home in my district, had been negligently exposed to COVID. Berna had been stonewalled. 1/.
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @lorenz_system: @GovKathyHochul We have brilliant minds in policy, climate science, civil engineering, and energy who can put New York o….
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Ron T. Kim
15 days
Another way to put this is that Blue states subsidize socialist programs in Red donor states.
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Gavin Newsom
22 days
California Crackup? Try again. California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.
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Ron T. Kim
18 days
This is corruption and incompetence at the highest level. Governor Hochul must change course and work with @CaringMajority @CaringMRising to hold PPL accountable and build a caring economy centered around workers and consumers.
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An employee of Public Partnerships, LLC -- the company hand-picked by Hochul's administration to act as the sole payment go-between for the state and participants in the Consumer Directed Personal...
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Ron T. Kim
19 days
Ironically, bumper sticker messages are very effective. Every solution should be communicated in bumper stickers.
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Andrew Cuomo
19 days
Staten Islanders don’t want bumper sticker slogans, they want real life solutions . When I’m Mayor, they will never be the forgotten borough . Cuomo sails into Staten Island, courts local moderates -
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Ron T. Kim
20 days
My daughter and I celebrated the birthdays of 100+ year olds in my district today! TY CenterLight Pace for all the positive aging programming!
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Ron T. Kim
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.". - Stephen Jay Gould.
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @lorenz_system: One hope of mine for Mayor @ZohranKMamdani is for more collab between @nycemergencymgt & researchers to integrate the la….
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @QnsBPRichards: There's no busier library in the U.S. than @QPLNYC's Flushing branch. Considering its location in such a diverse and dyn….
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @FDNY: In response to the fatal fire on July 4th at 43-69 Kissena Boulevard, our Fire Safety Education Unit is sharing lifesaving inform….
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Ron T. Kim
27 days
Call it whatever you want (privatization, externalization of the state, outsourcing, subcontracting, public ventures, etc.), but the outcome is the extreme concentration of power and wealth by a few. Policies that attempt to deconcentrate this power without fixing the public and.
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Ron T. Kim
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Dry cleaners, nail salons, beauty suppliers, construction firms, grocery stores, and thousands of other mom-and-pops create a circulatory economy that creates local jobs and keeps money flowing inward. No municipal takeover is necessary.
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Ron T. Kim
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Real socialists will find it conflicting to build public capacity or manage a government that uplifts capitalist institutions that create more markets for billionaires. Democratic socialists strive to build public capacity for working people but lack generational & institutional.
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Ron T. Kim
1 month
Seven 7min rounds to celebrate July 4th! 🇺🇸
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Ron T. Kim
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During the Great Depression, the federal government had to step in to control agricultural pricing, and industries also cried out about socialism/communism. When markets fail working people, the public sector has had a long history of stepping in to reset and find a.
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Ron T. Kim
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How do we end the Dems Downfall Syndrome: Overpromise. Under deliver. Keep outsourcing. Govern through press/social media.
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Ron T. Kim
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Taxing the Rich to break up Billionaires is not the same as taxing to maximize revenues for the state: different mindset, different objective.
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @tu_petertu1117: 6/28. FCBA has always encouraged young Asian Americans to get involved in community volunteer work, believing that serv….
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Ron T. Kim
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RT @edbraunstein: June 25th marked 75 years since the outbreak of the Korean War. I attended two events hosted by the Korean War Vets Assoc….
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