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Anonymous ID: a2ace7 April 10, 2019, 9:21 a.m. No.6121509   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1621

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/the-ties-that-bind-the-liberals-and-the-bronfmans/

 

The ties that bind the Liberals and the Bronfmans

 

The opposition is questioning the Bronfman family’s connections to the Liberal Party. It’s been happening for 100 years.

Anonymous ID: a2ace7 April 10, 2019, 9:42 a.m. No.6121745   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1792

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/al-damato-kicked-off-jetblue-flight-2017-01-10

 

Al D’Amato kicked off JetBlue flight

2017

 

Former Sen. Al D’Amato was escorted from a JetBlue flight Monday night after trying to lead passengers in a chant protesting seating changes requested by the crew, an eyewitness on the flight told The Post.

 

JetBlue US:JBLU flight 1002 from Ft. Lauderdale to JFK was scheduled to depart at 1:40 pm Monday, but didn’t take off until 8 pm.

 

“Al D’Amato was just kicked off my flight,” the passenger texted to a Post reporter mid-flight.

 

D’Amato and other passengers who were already “super cranky” about the six-and-a-half hour delay were even less enthusiastic when the flight crew asked people who paid extra for legroom to switch seats because of “weight and balance issues,” the passenger said.

 

“That’s when he [D’Amato] took to the aisles.”

 

Another passenger posted a video of the incident on Facebook.

 

D’Amato, who was sitting toward the back of the plane — in a seat with sparse legroom — began chanting “make them move,” which a smattering of fellow passengers took up, and marched up and down the aisle.

 

The outburst prompted the crew to ask D’Amato to leave. When he didn’t, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office was called in.

 

“We can still speak in this country. And what they’re doing to me…I’m making an appeal to all you people. Stand up for what’s right and walk out with me,” D’Amato says on the video.

 

One passenger can be seen following D’Amato off the plane.

 

Passengers were given $100 credit for the delay, the source said. But it was unclear if D’Amato got the consolation prize.

 

JetBlue did not respond for requests for comment.

 

D’Amato could not immediately be reached.

 

This article originally appeared at NYPost.com

Anonymous ID: a2ace7 April 10, 2019, 9:48 a.m. No.6121803   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6121792

https://nypost.com/2015/07/19/damato-wants-schumer-to-nix-obamas-iran-deal/

 

2015

 

D’Amato wants Schumer to nix Obama’s Iran deal

 

Saying “the security of our nation and the security of Israel are threatened,” former US Sen. Alfonse D’Amato on Sunday urged Sen. Chuck Schumer to vote against President Obama’s nuclear-arms pact with Iran.

 

“This is an absurd agreement, and if I was in the Senate, I’d vote against it,’’ D’Amato, a Republican who served 18 years in the Senate before losing to Democrat Schumer in 1998, told The Post.

 

“This is nothing less than gambling with the security of our nation. This is absolutely the worst. ‘Trust and verify,’ as Ronald Reagan said? Ronald Reagan wouldn’t go near this agreement,” D’Amato said.

 

D’Amato, who has become increasingly supportive of Democrats, including Gov. Cuomo, in recent years, spoke admiringly of Schumer’s role as New York’s senior senator and likely Senate Democratic leader in 2017, even as he urged him to put politics aside to oppose the Democratic president.

 

“I respect Sen. Schumer, his intellect, his stewardship as a senator. I think he’s done an excellent job. But my advice to him on this issue is to vote ‘no.’

 

“I believe this agreement is nothing more than an attempt at political aggrandizement by Secretary of State Kerry and the president and that’s all that this is about,” D’Amato said.

 

“It’s politics over the safety of our country.’’

 

D’Amato said he was especially worried about a concession in the agreement giving Iran up to 24 days’ notice before its military bases could be inspected for nuclear-weapons-related production.

 

“Giving them that kind of notice is absurd because they can move or hide anything during that time. You’re talking about the government of Iran that has never worked cooperatively with us in any way,’’ D’Amato said.

 

Schumer, who says he’s in the process of analyzing the Iran deal, is widely seen as a key to its approval since, being Jewish, a strong backer of Israel, and the heir apparent to outgoing Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, his decision will likely influence the votes of other Senate Democrats.