Amazon , a trillion - dollar mark house that use some of the smart minds in engineering and logistics and has the power to upend full industry just by announcing its possible usurpation into them , just wants to be liked . And like any well - adjusted people - pleaser , it keeps plentiful note of hand on the hater who just ca n’t stand to see it succeed .
Specifically , the Wall Street Journalreportsthat during the HQ2 spectacle in which Amazon tried to contain a land - across-the-board deathmatch for which city it would deign to work up a orbiter office in , the company kept a “ burn Word ” of its New York knocker .
For a bit of recap : In 2017 , Amazon announced its intention to work up a second HQ and turned the proceedings into a plot show where cities seek to out - grovel one another . Eventually , New York City and a suburbia of Washington , DC , were chosen , indicate to critic that the whole affair was a cynical ploy to draw out proficient subsidies from preselected locales . As a result , it also backfire by providing the general public with increased insight into how bodied handouts ferment in this commonwealth .
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While Crystal City , Virginia ’s legislature welcomed Amazon without incident , New York pol and labor organizers successfully push back on the contentious plans . And as that fight dragged on , the Journal claims , Amazon kept an eight - page slug - bespeak document style “ NY Negative Statements . ”
It ’s not clear from the Journal ’s report how many names occupied Amazon ’s rent - soaked burn Good Book , though it seems three of the great deal ’s most point-blank opposition — Jimmy Van Bramer , lieutenant leader of the New York City Council , and State Senator Mike Gianaris , as well as Retail , Wholesale and Department Store Union President Stuart Applebaum — made appearances . Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo , who champion HQ2 right up until it was politically inconvenient , reportedly avoided this off-the-cuff shitlist .
We reached out to Amazon to see if this is standard recitation and who else Bezos ’s empire might have considered a self-aggrandizing mean meanie . We do n’t expect a thoroughgoing reply , but if you have inside info on the HQ2 trouncing find detached to reach out viaemail , TwitterDM , Keybase , orSecure Drop .
Update 9:04pm ET : “ This written document was a briefing paper that had public program line about the project to help executives prepare for the next city council hearing , ” an Amazon interpreter told Gizmodo , “ to call it anything more is a gross exaggeration . ”
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