amy: mayor de blasio blinged amazon for walking out on its play to come to new york city, saying the tech giant "took their ball and went home." governor andrew cuomo is going after the local lawmakers who took on amazon. well, we are joined by one of those numbers, ron kim. he introduced the end of corporate welfare act to the new york state legislature earlier this month. his recent piece for buzzfeed is headlined "amazon shows it's time for states to stop the corporate welfare bidding wars." assemblymember ron kim, welcome to democracy now! talk about what happened. were you shocked when amazon said they were pulling out? >> i was a bit taken back. i thought they were going to stick around to talk to our groups, labor unions, politicians, to figure out some sort of a reasonable compromise to coexist and be good neighbors and for them to actually have meetings the day before with the mayor's office, the labor grououps, and then all of aa sudden, without any notice,