And although Simpson was talking about the congressional
negotiations in the 1980s, things haven’t changed much.
You have Mark “Facebook” Zuckerberg with his faux
conservative band of pals. Fwd.us
includes:
- Mark Zuckerberg (the public face of the group)
- Joe Green (founder and president of the group)
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
- Dropbox employees Drew Houston and Ruchi Sanghvi
- LinkedIn CEO and founder Reid Hoffman
- super-angel Ron Conway
- venture capitalists Jim Breyer (of Accel Partners)
- Matt Cohler (of Benchmark Capital)
- John Doerr (of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
- Chamath Palihapitiya (of The Social+Capital Partnership)
- Steve Ballmer (CEO of Microsoft)
- Brian Chesky (founder of Airbnb)
- Chris Cox
- Paul Graham (co-founder of Y Combinator)
- Reed Hastings (CEO of Netflix)
- Chad Hurley
- Josh James
- Max Levchin (former CTO of Paypal)
- Joe Lonsdale (founder of Palantir and Addepar)
- Andrew Mason (founder and CEO of Groupon)
- Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo!)
- Mary Meeker
- Dave Morin (CEO of Path)
- Mark Pincus
- Keith Rabois
- David Sacks
- Eric Schmidt (executive chairman at Google Inc)
- Brad Smith (Microsoft executive vice president of legal affairs)
- Kevin Systrom (CEO of Instagram)
- Padmasree Warrior (CTO of Cisco)
- Fred Wilson (of Union Square Ventures)
- Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX and of Tesla Motors) was originally listed as a major contributor, but left the group in the wake of advertisements put out by FWD.us supporting some political activities that conflicted with Musk's environmentalist priorities.
Source: Wikipedia, 5/12/13
This bunch looks more like the address book of David Plouffe
than that of a group that calls itself Americans for a Conservative
Direction. They want you to believe they
are conservative, but they aren’t.
Here’s another one, called Partnership for a New American
Economy. (Boy, does that sound like a
New World Order front group.) Here are
the main players:
- Mark Hurd Chairman, CEO and President of Hewlett-Packard
- Robert Iger President and CEO, Walt Disney Co.
- J.W. Marriott, Jr. Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, Inc.
- Jim McNerney Chairman, President and CEO of Boeing
- Rupert Murdoch Chairman, CEO and Founder of News Corporation
- Julián Castro Mayor of San Antonio
- Michael Bloomberg Mayor of New York City
- Michael Nutter Mayor of Philadelphia
- Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor of Los Angeles
Source: Wikipedia, 5/12/13
Those two groups alone mean there is all sorts of
pro-amnesty money being thrown around for lobbying and media buys.
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