Zuckerberg pledges up to $20M to form SuperPAC with far-right GOP help

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The newest start-up to watch in Silicon Valley involves a crowd of top tech stars –led by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — who are seriously exploring the formation of a new independent expenditure group focused on a range of issues, including education and immigration reform, sources tell the Chronicle.

Word is the IE move was organized by Joe Green, Zuckerberg’s old Harvard roommate. And we’ve heard the Facebook CEO has pledged millions to the cause — one source says as much as $20 million — and has gotten others to pledge as much as $2 million to $5 million each.

Some people are raising their eyebrows over the choice of a hard-right Republican consultant — one who produced a famed spot deriding liberals as a “latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo-driving, New York Times-reading” freak show — to handle the Silicon Valley SuperPAC’s work.

Sources say the group is bringing on Jon Lerner, the Republican strategist who founded Maryland-based Red Sea LLC and who is behind Grover Norquist and his Club for Growth. Joining him will be ultra-conservative GOP consultant Rob Jesmer, a former strategist with Texas Sen. John Cornyn and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Read more: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/03/22/excloo-silicon-valleys-newest-start-up-zuckerberg-tech-stars-explore-multi-million-superpac-to-push-immigration-issues/

[aquart]

1. Little boys too greedy to pay taxes on their toys.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The sooner Facebook goes the way of Myspace, the better.

[DonCoquixote]

3. hey mark

as a fellow Aspie, you need to realize something, the people you are in bed with are the same people that will always consider you a freak, just as they will consider Obama an "african:. You got towhere you are because those same masses found you useful, they can easily find you less useful, just ask Myspace.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. I met this fuck at a shooting range in Santa Clara.

Seemed like a nice guy at the time. He was driving a really nice Ferrari and, as I had owned a few Ferrari's back in the day, we had things to talk about but it seems that too much money just fucks people up.

[leveymg]

6. You missed your chance to alter the course of history. Now look what's happened. photo> ;-)

[Bucky]

10. Are those solar panels?

And how would killing Mark Zuckerberg lead to Germany having solar powered airships by 1950? I love alternative history, but you've really got to rework that PoD.

[leveymg]

12. All nuclear, all the time in Graff Deutschland of the future (circa 1950)

Literally?

[Frustratedlady]

11. Isn't he the one who moved his money out of the country

so he wouldn't have to pay taxes? Do I have him mixed up with someone else?

[leveymg]

13. That's his roommate, Eduardo. Mark and FB avoid taxes in other ways:

Facebook Unfriends Uncle Sam: Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan To Avoid Taxes
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/15/484452/facebook-zuckerberg-avoid-taxes/
By Pat Garofalo on May 15, 2012 at 1:20 pm

The right-wing has been lauding Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin for his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship in order to avoid taxes. But he isn’t the only one who’s going to slash his tax bill in the wake of Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering: both CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company itself will lower their tax bill for years to come.

While Zuckerberg will pay a hefty tax bill right off the bat if he follows through on his plan to sell $5 billion in Facebook stock options, as the New York Times noted, he may then never pay a dime of taxes on the rest of his Facebook wealth. “Instead, he can simply use his stock as collateral to borrow against his tremendous wealth and avoid all tax,” the Times reported.

And, as Citizens for Tax Justice has noted, Facebook may use the issuance of stock options to avoid corporate income taxes, instead receiving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in refunds:
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[2naSalit]

5. Yet another

in the ever increasingly long list of reasons why I will never join that little brat's FB human tracking network.

[uselessobot]

7. +1

Would be nice to see people leave FB in droves in protest but most will find a lame reason to justify staying and indirectly supporting the GOP.

Just like they justify buying a non union built car and shop Wal Mart and eat Chic Fii A, etc…..

[davidpdx]

8. What an asshole

I hope Facebook stock tanks.

[graham4anything]

9. Why has anyone ever thought Zuckie was a liberal?

I just don't get it.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Mark Zuckerberg's Zip code might suggest he was a liberal

That, and education. At the end of the day, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to discover he subscribes to the "I got mine; to Hell with you" philosophy of life.

[graham4anything]

16. A person like this normally is anti-social, loner without friends or causes

not a person who would be liberal.

In fact, I would classify him as a loner, a gamer, without many friends who tried to game the system of coming up with dates for himself, and he hit the bonanza.
In a word, he is a loser who happens to be a billionaire.

imho.

There but not for his billions, he might have been the type one talked about in other context on other threads.

Lucky he was.

imho.
Now he has friends, but are any of them real friends, who knows.

But who knows, I don't know him, never did, still don't.
Nor am I a doctor or play one on t.v.

[Zax2me]

14. No no no- this is good news!

The right pac groups are known to pocket 80% of funds. They are like bad charities.
All that right-leaning money just changing hands with an illusion it is helping far right causes.
Perfect!