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Amazon Spends $350K On Seattle Mayor's Race (jeffreifman.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the money-trail dept.

reifman writes: Until this summer, Amazon had never contributed more than $15,000 to a city political campaign in Seattle, but this year's different. The company is a lead funder in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce's PAC which dropped $525,000 Monday on Jenny Durkan's PAC, the centrist business candidate. Her opponent Cary Moon is an advocate for affordable housing, which complicates Amazon's growth, and city-owned community broadband. Comcast and Century Link joined Amazon contributing $25,000 and $82,500 respectively to the Chamber's PAC. Amazon's $350,000 contribution represents .00014 of its CY 2016 net profit.

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  1. Super PACs by youngone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah yes, the best government money can buy.

    1. Re: Super PACs by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Unfortunately that runs afoul of that pesky concept of "no taxation without representation."

      What, you think "no taxation without representation" is in the Constitution? It was a a fucking slogan. The group of wine snobs that were the "Founding Fathers" were just looking for ways to get out of paying their own taxes. They weren't looking to establish some legal precedent.

      If "no taxation without representation" was part of the Constitution, then we wouldn't charge any taxes to the millions of Americans that are denied their voting rights in red states every single election.

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  2. Re:If you're on the side of Comcast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You act like Amazon is any better than Comcast. How cute.

  3. Re:Units matter! by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, I'm not certain what you're asking, but I think 14 1/hundred thousandths of $2.5 billion is $350K.

    What's truly interesting to me, is the idea this is even surprising news.

    A truly shocking story would be, "Half a trillion dollar company still refuses to influence local politics to its benefit."

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  4. If money is speech by Beeftopia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If money is speech, corporations have a lot more of it than you do.