Clinton Owns Silicon Valley’s Vote Now That Bloomberg’s Out

[Lodestar]

Wired
(excerpt)

One of Them
That Silicon Valley elites would support Clinton has been a foregone conclusion throughout the 2016 race so far. Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, has funded two companies—The Groundwork and Civis Analytics—that are both working with the Clinton campaign. Laurene Powell Jobs, widow to Steve Jobs, has donated to Clinton’s campaign and plowed $25,000 into the Ready for Hillary Super PAC back in 2014. Also in Clinton’s corner are Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, venture capitalist John Doerr, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, Box CEO Aaron Levie, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and others.

http://www.wired.com/2016/03/bloomberg-clinton-owns-silicon-valley-vote/

Eric Schmidt’s ‘The Groundwork’ Failing Hillary Clinton

With Hillary Clinton’s polls collapsing, Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s project “The Groundwork,” which was supposed to lead Silicon Valley’s effort to put Clinton into the White House, appears to be failing.

Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s new parent company, Alphabet, was instrumental in forming the start-up that is the major technology vendor for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Schmidt’s net worth is estimated by Forbes to be more than $10 billion.

The Groundwork was the highest paid tech service company to the Clinton campaign, receiving $136,131 during the third quarter and $313,349 through the first 9 months of 2015. It was second in total earnings only to digital consultant Blue Wolf Group, according to available federal filings.


http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/15/eric-schmidts-the-groundwork-failing-hillary-clinton/

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Anyone else uncomfortable with Google's position so close to politics (ie. a political game that is ever more reliant on e-voting and social media, etc.)?

[FreakinDJ]

1. She earned that endorsing TPP

Apple iPhone is Outsourced 100%

[elljay]

2. Not Silicon Valley's vote

but Silicon Valley's oligarch vote. I live there and the Bernie bumper stickers are all over the place. We workers are painfully aware that our management makes obscene amounts of money off of our very hard work and we get very little of it.

[Baobab]

3. Surveillance state is I am sure part of Gooogle's business model at this point

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