OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
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OccuWorld · @OccuWorld
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CraigPC · @craigpc
240 followers · 2181 posts · Server mastodon.world

A decade before Chief Justice John Roberts rejected a Senate request this week to testify about corruption scandals engulfing the Supreme Court, he threatened to challenge a congressional effort to ensure the high court’s justices abide by federal corruption laws, according to documents reviewed by The Lever.

levernews.com/roberts-memo-thr

#uspol #uspolitics #scotus #corruption #ConflictOfInterest #accountability

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Nando161 · @nando161
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MarkR · @mbrmark
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MarkR · @mbrmark
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MarkR · @mbrmark
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DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW
733 followers · 8307 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Portland Planning Board chair renting apartment on Airbnb amid housing crisis

by Troy R. Bennett, Bangor Daily News, Wed, March 22nd 2023,

"While completely legal, some say it’s a bad look for a powerful city official, especially during an unprecedented affordable housing crisis.

"Planning Board Chair Maggie Stanley is renting the first-floor Woodfords Corner neighborhood apartment for $103 per night or up to $3,000 per month. Stanley’s long-term housing license at the property ran out at the end of last year and was not renewed, according to city records.

"'Walking distance to coffee shops, restaurants, and Back Cove,' reads the online listing. 'Access to shared yard, fire pit and grill. Ask about going for a ride in our lobster boat!'

"Stanley has been on the Planning Board since Feb. 2016. The board reviews and decides on all major development proposals in Portland.

"'It shows exactly where we are as a community,' said Wes Pelletier, former chair of the Livable Portland Campaign. 'City officials see housing not as a human right but as a way to make profits.'

"The campaign was an offshoot of the Maine chapter of the of America and sought, among other things, to reduce the number of short-term rentals in Portland. The referendum for that particular measure didn’t pass."

wgme.com/news/local/maine-hous

#democraticsocialists #UnaffordableHousing #housingcrisis #maine #ConflictOfInterest #portlandmaine #housing

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MarkR · @mbrmark
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Marc Botenga · @botengam
16 followers · 558 posts · Server respublicae.eu

RT @pascoesabido: This is brilliant! @botengam puts forward an important amendment calling out the posed by second jobs for MEPs, aka the after the long-serving Belgian MEP with multiple side jobs....

And then @GuyVerhofstadt goes and votes for it! 😂

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/BotengaM/stat

#ConflictOfInterest #VerhofstadtSyndrome

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Judith Bunting · @judithbuntingld
5 followers · 346 posts · Server respublicae.eu

RT @Britain_People: 🔥According to September's Private Eye, @KwasiKwarteng
has been working for Odey's hedge fund on the side as a paid 'political advisor' at £20k a month ...

... since he was elected as an MP in 2010.

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/JudithBunting

#ConflictOfInterest #MPSecondJobs

Last updated 2 years ago

RT @corporateeurope: BREAKING: MEPs call on EU's Frans Timmermans to support a policy to "keep 1.5c alive" and "protect the @UNFCCC process".

@TimmermansEU will you listen to @PetrosKokkalis @BasEickhout @MChahim @spietikainen and co?
petroskokkalis.eu/post/protect

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/spietikainen/status/

#ConflictOfInterest

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Nikolaj Villumsen · @nvillumsen
81 followers · 1605 posts · Server respublicae.eu

RT @corporateeurope: BREAKING: MEPs call on EU's Frans Timmermans to support a policy to "keep 1.5c alive" and "protect the @UNFCCC process".

@TimmermansEU will you listen to @PetrosKokkalis @BasEickhout @MChahim @spietikainen and co?
petroskokkalis.eu/post/protect

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/nvillumsen/status/15

#ConflictOfInterest

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The Left in the European Parli · @GUENGL
115 followers · 1547 posts · Server respublicae.eu

📢Climate activists before Fossil Fuel Lobbyists!

In @PetrosKokkalis open letter, MEPs from @TheProgressives , @GreensEFA, @EPPGroup and @RenewEurope call on Commissioner @TimmermansEU for rules protecting the decision-making process from big polluters.


RT @corporateeurope: BREAKING: MEPs call on EU's Frans Timmermans to support a policy to "keep 1.5c alive" and "protect the @UNFCCC process".

@Timm…

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/Left_EU/status/15925

#unfccc #COP27 #ConflictOfInterest

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🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: · @watson
460 followers · 28449 posts · Server freeatlantis.com

"It's the academic doctors who have major conflicts of interest," the eminent Yale professor of epidemiology told cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head. "They do the research studies funded by pharma, they are the spokesman for pharma. They get paid by pharma for grants and teaching and so on, and ... those payments corrupt the entire medical workspace and ideas space." justthenews.com/politics-polic



#pharma #AcademicDoctors #ConflictOfInterest

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The Left in the European Parli · @GUENGL
60 followers · 1356 posts · Server respublicae.eu

🤔 Looking to shape laws in favour of your profit motive?

💡 Hire an EU insider!

The revolving door is one of the key ways corporate lobbyists can shape the EU agenda.

Good to hear @EUombudsman speak out!

via @liliebayer politico.eu/article/ombudsman-

🐦🔗: nitter.eu/Left_EU/status/15269

#ConflictOfInterest

Last updated 3 years ago