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Q: How much does the GOP care about "small business" and "science"? A: — PolitiTweet.org

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This is how much the House GOP cares about "small business" and "science." — PolitiTweet.org

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"The National Restaurant Association uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases." https://t.co/hTGDgIz6IU — PolitiTweet.org

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13. Stipicevic is a registered lobbyist for Disney, which pays CGCN $240,000 per year. Other corporations frequently derided as "woke" that are represented by Stipicevic include Microsoft, Mastercard, American Airlines, and Wells Fargo. https://t.co/iLmacYgx8M — PolitiTweet.org

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12. John Stipicevic served as McCarthy's deputy chief of staff and is now the "Chief Advocacy Officer" for CGCN, a corporate lobbying firm. According to "other Republican lobbyists," Stipicevic is the "second closest McCarthy insider on K Street," after Miller. — PolitiTweet.org

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11. The poster child for "woke" corporations is Disney. The company drew the scorn of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) after it belatedly opposed the Parental Rights in Education Act, also known as "Don't Say Gay." — PolitiTweet.org

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9. In other words, McCarthy is not at war with corporate America. His political operation is fueled by corporate America's paid representatives. https://t.co/iLmacYgx8M — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacharyGraves Which companies and industries are they divorcing from? — PolitiTweet.org

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8. As host of the February 7 fundraiser, Miller will raise or donate at least $250,000 for McCarthy. Four of Miller's associates at his lobbying firm — George Caram, Ashley Gunn, Jonny Hiler, Jessica Mandel — have each committed to raise or donate another $100,000. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Miller Strategies represents more than four dozen major corporations, including many of the "woke" companies McCarthy is supposedly taking on — Apple, Blackstone, and PhRMA. Since Republicans won the House in November, Miller Strategies has already signed five new clients. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Miller and Dan Coston, who runs CLF and AAN, "make up the nucleus of McCarthy’s political operation." Miller is not paid for the work he does for McCarthy. Miller is paid by corporations to represent their interests in DC. — PolitiTweet.org

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8. As host of the February 7 fundraiser, Miller will raise or donate at least $250,000 for McCarthy. Four of Miller's associates at his lobbying firm — George Caram, Ashley Gunn, Jonny Hiler, Jessica Mandel — have each committed to raise or donate another $100,000. — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Miller Strategies represents more than four dozen major corporations, including many of the "woke" companies McCarthy is supposedly taking on — Apple, Blackstone, and PhRMA. Since Republicans won the House in November, Miller Strategies has already signed five new clients. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Miller and Dan Coston, who runs CLF and AAN, "make up the nucleus of McCarthy’s political operation." Miller is not paid for the work he does for McCarthy. Miller is paid by corporations to represent their interests in DC. — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Miller frequently travels with McCarthy and has raised millions for the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), McCarthy's Super PAC, and the American Action Network (AAN), CLF's affiliated non-profit organization. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. The name at the very top of the fundraising invite is Jeff Miller, a member of McCarthy's inner circle who Politico suggested may now be "the most powerful unelected man in DC." Miller has known McCarthy for decades and, in 2017, became a federal lobbyist — PolitiTweet.org

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3. It cost at least 50K to attend McCarthy's February 7 event. Co-hosts must raise or donate 100K. Hosts much raise or donate 250K. All ten hosts and co-hosts are corporate lobbyists. https://t.co/VJ8YOfRdVQ — PolitiTweet.org

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2. There will be little evidence of such a "war" between House Republicans and corporate lobbyists on February 7, when "Team McCarthy" hosts its first major political event of the year — a mega-fundraiser at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Washington, DC. https://t.co/iLmacYgx8M — PolitiTweet.org

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1. We've been told that the GOP will no longer cater to big business Instead, Republicans have embraced populism and are at war with corporations, which they claim have gone "woke" Corporate lobbyists are reportedly out of luck NONE OF THIS IS TRUE 🧵 https://t.co/HXZnCBdOoC — PolitiTweet.org

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9. Decades later, this cynical strategy is still being employed by right-wing politicians. — PolitiTweet.org

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8. In the years that followed, Reagan crafted a false image of King, claiming that King would have supported policies that he opposed. In a 1986 radio address, Reagan invoked King to defend his attacks on affirmative action, anti-poverty programs, and civil rights enforcement https://t.co/BoGPgd45Eg — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Reagan assured Thomson that the holiday would celebrate the "image" of King and not the "reality." In the years that followed, Reagan crafted a false image of King, claiming that King would have supported policies that he stridently opposed. https://t.co/5F7SuU9txT — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Just prior to signing the bill, however, Reagan wrote to New Hampshire Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. (R). Thomson loathed King, calling him "a man of immoral character," and was urging Reagan to veto the holiday. — PolitiTweet.org

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5. But, with reelection approaching and facing increased pressure from the NAACP, Reagan abruptly reversed course and signed a bill creating the MLK holiday in 1983. — PolitiTweet.org

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4. So it's not a surprise that Reagan had long opposed the creation of a holiday to honor King. During Reagan's first two years in office, he claimed it would cost too much money. — PolitiTweet.org

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3. When Reagan ran for president in 1980, King's widow, Coretta Scott King, said she was "scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan." — PolitiTweet.org

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2. Reagan was not a fan of the civil rights movement. Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling it a "bad piece of legislation" Reagan opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, describing it as "humiliating to the South" — PolitiTweet.org

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1. Did you know that Republicans have purposely used MLK Day to distort the reality of MLK's legacy since the inception of the national holiday in 1983? It started with Reagan. 🧵 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Oxfam 5. "A tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty, and fund a global plan to end hunger. — PolitiTweet.org