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Brian Sweeney has a long list of complaints about Amazon, from the way it treats warehouse workers to the low taxes it pays and its effort to win concessions from cities to bring in jobs. So when he learned the online retail giant had poured $1 million into remaking the Seattle City Council with more business-friendly candidates, he pulled out his wallet.The New York resident sent $15 to socialist council me stanley cup mber Kshama Sawant, a target of the online retail giant. While that doesn t compare to Amazon s unprecedented spending on October 14, about 1,900 others also have donated to Sawant since then, her campaign says. It s a dramatic rise in support and a reflection of the risk Amazon is taking as it splashes into the politics of its liberal hometown.Many in Seattle aren t happy with the council, but they also don t like a company headed by the world s richest man, Jeff Bezos, trying to influence their vote. As historic income inequality fuels homelessness and soaring housing prices, progressives elsewhere don t like it either. Amazon could do this in hundreds of places around the country with all the money they re not paying in taxes, said Sweeney, a 28-year-old software engin stanley cup eer turned carpenter in Valley Stream, New York.Shifting city leadershipWith seven of the nine Sea stanley cup ttle council seats in play November 5, business interests see an opportunity to shift city leadership closer to the political center and away from a bent to potentially Evzr Detroit s other auto show
WHITE CREEK, N.Y.-- New York State Police say they ve charged a 48-year-old woman with stealing $250 worth of baked goods from an order of nuns known for their cheesecake.Troopers say the theft occurred last month at the Nuns of New Skete monastery in the rural town of White Creek, on the Vermont border, 35 miles northeast of Albany.The nuns sell their cheesecakes and pastries on the honor system at the monastery s unstaffed gift shop. Police say surveillance cameras caught two women taking merchandise without leaving money in the drop box. Troopers say surveillance photos released earlier this week and social media postings of the images led to the arrest of a woman from North Arlington, Vermont. The other woman was identified as her 21-year-old daughter, who wasn t charged.The chees adidas originals ecakes sell for $49 and up. More from CBS News Soldier charged with murder in sergeant s Missouri death adidas campus 2 Ohio officers involved in Black man s death charged with reckless homicide airmax Arrest made in camper s murder, initially reported as