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02-07-2008, 08:22 AM
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| Global Moderator   Join Date: Nov 2005
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 | Silicon Valley Donations: Microsoft Loves Hillary; Google, Obama   Microsoft employees support New York senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, while Google and Yahoo staffers are for Illinois senator Barack Obama, according to recently updated 2007 filings with the Federal Election Commission. Microsoft employees have donated a total of about $130,000 to Clinton, far more than any of the other six major candidates, according to a searchable database of the political donations at Fundrace, a project of the Huffington Post. At Google, donations favored Obama over the New York senator by $97,771 to $46,610. Yahoo staff also donated more money to Obama's campaign by almost two-thirds. The only Republican presidential candidate who received a significant amount of monetary support in the tech sector was libertarian Ron Paul, who brought in over $104,000 from Silicon Valley workers. Paul was followed by Republican candidate Mitt Romney, who raised nearly $20,000 from Microsoft, but he didn't receive a cent from Google employees. Likewise at Yahoo, no one donated a penny to the campaigns of Arizona senator John McCain and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Hillary Clinton Microsoft $129,734 Google $46,610 Yahoo $15,600 Barack Obama Google $97,771 Microsoft $68,005 Yahoo $24,288 Ron Paul Microsoft $54,111 Google $41,342 Yahoo $9,435 Mitt Romney Microsoft $19,805 Yahoo $600 Google $0 John McCain Microsoft $8,210 Google $1,550 Yahoo $0 Mike Huckabee Microsoft $750 Google $400 Yahoo $0 - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Last edited by Mikael; 02-07-2008 at 08:43 AM. |
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02-07-2008, 09:15 AM
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| Re: Silicon Valley Donations: Microsoft Loves Hillary; Google, Obama This is strange, here in France you will never find an employee that will give money to politicians. We consider that they earn so much money, and all that only to raise the taxes...It would be stupid that us, poor taxpayers, would given them money! And I fully agree with that thinking! |
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02-07-2008, 01:38 PM
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| Oinky Wizard  Join Date: Sep 2005
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 | Re: Silicon Valley Donations: Microsoft Loves Hillary; Google, Obama "Old" IT company vs "new" IT company.   What about Apple? Who have they endorsed? |
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