Google's New Lobbying Power in Washington

*SECADM writes "Learning from Microsoft's error, Google is building a lobbying power house in Washington." From the Washington Post article: Two years ago, Google was on the verge of making that Microsoft-like error. Davidson, then a 37-year-old former deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, was the search-engine company's sole staff lobbyist in Washington. As recently as last year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin had trouble getting meetings with members of Congress. To change that, Google went on a hiring spree and now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here — more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office — and is continuing to add people.

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Corporations sponsored the Nazi's bid for power in Germany, which was a democracy before they came to power. Of course they only agreed to rubber-stamp all laws the corporate sponsors wanted put in place, not to actually run the country ethically, but it wouldn't be in shareholders interests to insist politicians do that.