zteachout

Hi! There probably is but my parents won't say. Teachout is originally Dutch--Zephyr was given to me at birth, without explanation. My siblings' names are Woden, Chelsea, Dillon, and Cabot, and I won't regale you with my 14 nieces and nephews, but they are good, too :). My parents, by the way, are Mary and Peter Teachout--a State Judge in Vermont and a Constitutional Law Professor.

I’ve been fighting to preserve Net Neutrality for years, and was proud to run with Tim Wu, who coined the term, in 2014.

I support state level net neutrality at a legislative level, but I want to focus on the role of AG, which is to prevent the consolidation that makes conflicts of interest and bias in distribution networks so terrible.

Net neutrality is one of the many anti-monopoly tools that I support--some are legislative and some are litigation.

I laid out the importance of net neutrality in this brief I filed in 2015:

r/https://www.eff.org/files/2015/09/22/us_telecom_v._fcc_meinrath_zephyr_and_users_of_the_internet_amicus.pdf

Unions

I joined a union when I was 18, working in the dining hall at college, and have been pro-union ever since.

Defend workers rights, protect against wage theft, work to overturn the anti-union jurisprudence at the supreme court.

The Supreme Court is openly hostile to workers rights to organize -- as evidenced by the recent cases Janus v. AFSCME and Harris v. Quinn -- and corporate consolidation is crushing our workers.

While the Charter CEO Thomas Rutledge received a $98 million compensation package last year, Spectrum employees lost negotiating power. As Attorney General I will use the Clayton Act to block these large mergers from happening in the first place, mergers which often leave workers with less pay and stripped down benefits, but line the pockets of their CEOs.

As large corporations erode workers’ rights, unions remain at the frontlines fighting for the middle class from the five-day work week, to sick leave, to paid vacation days. I will always be totally union proud and be there on strike lines standing up for workers.

Thanks for the question! I have nearly 20 years experience as a lawyer and litigator. I started my career representing people on death row in North Carolina, and that work has informed everything I have done since. I have been deeply involved in strategic litigation projects around money and politics, antitrust, and net neutrality.

Recent cases I was involved in include CREW v. Trump. In Jan 2017 I was one of the lawyers to sue Trump for violations of the Emoluments Clause, and have been advising the state AGs offices in MD and DC on their litigation and I am a plaintiff in a lawsuit against single-candidate SuperPACs.

My experience as a nationally recognized expert in constitutional and anticorruption law is painfully relevant right now. It makes me uniquely qualified to deal with the dual challenges of Trump and NY corruption, as well as illegality in business. I have the support of some of the countries' best litigators--Robbie Kaplan, Larry Tribe, Joshua Matz, etc. Someone I worked with recently said this: r/ https://twitter.com/JoshuaMatz8/status/1019322039562317825

Hi! Thank you!

- We need a new Moreland Commission.

- We need an AG who will revive existing Moreland powers and use them

- Need public hearings on sexual misconduct and failed processes in Albany NOW.

- No more corporate PAC money! No more LLC money! This is a no-brainer but too many politicians are hooked on it--and the costs to people are extraordinary. Amazingly I am the only candidate in the AG race not taking Corporate PAC money or LLC money.

- Relatedly, NYC Real Estate and Hedge Funds have outsized power.

- Public financing of elections

- End gerrymandering

- Stop 3-men in a room and allow lawmakers who aren't at the peak of power to introduce legislation

- Gov has too much power and the temptation to use it--having an independent AG is critical.

- No campaign money from state contractors

- Seth Agata, the head of JCOPE, must resign. And THEN we need to reform JCOPE.

- Procurement oversight

I"m just getting started!

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Yes yes yes yes.

I already do! Law enforcement MUST lead not follow, the fight for justice. Mass incarceration is plainly about dehumanization and structural racism and not law--cash bail being just one example.