Posted on 09/03/2018 3:53:18 AM PDT by DFG
Billionaire Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen this year has made his largest-ever foray into congressional politics, donating $100,000 to a group aiming to keep Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The June 14 donation, disclosed in mid-July, went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Its the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee, according to a review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.
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But Open Secrets has some data, anyone know if the candidates listed are RINOs...
https://www.opensecrets.org/jfc/summary.php?id=C00669622&cycle=2018
Good news
The candidates listed there are not anti-Trumpers that I know, and some are very conservative. Looks like they are from districts that are expected to have close elections.
Pretty sure he’s supported gun grabbing so I’d hold my horses on him being on the right team.
Hmmmm. Thanks! No atheists in foxhole maybe...
“Not sure where he got the $50k but presumably he got it from Gates III who got it from his parents or parents rich friends as they were investing in a startup. Gates III mother was an executive at IBM.”
Then the author of that statement has no idea about the history of Microsoft. They had the money, and lots of it by that time.
Better check another dealer, pretty sure you could buy a really nice Focus for $100,000. Lol!
Ruh-roh....the other flagburning owners aren’t gonna like it!
MAKE FLORIDA VENEZUELA!!
Dont worry Sheldon Adelson and the Kochs are spending more.
Wait till the felonaires hear about this...they will start burning the flag before games now....
“You cant even buy a new Ford Focus for a $100,000. “
I can get five for $100k.
Just another reason for the thugs on his team to disrespect the flag before the games. I wonder if this will affect attendance at his weekly kneelathon.
Doesn’t want to lose his tax cut?
Allen never attended Harvard. Only Gates did. Allen attended Washington State University, which he dropped out of after two years.
They were together at Harvard and left in pursuit of programming microcomputers.
Gates never left Harvard till a year after they had signed a contract with MITS in Albuquerque to write Basic for the Altaire. Allen went to work at MITS in Albuquerque by himself till Gates finally left Harvard and joined him.
He was to Gates III as Wozniak was to Jobs at Apple.
Not quite. Gates was every bit as good a programmer as Allen, if not better. Steve Jobs was no programmer.
So conservatives are boycotting football and liberals will now boycott the Seahawks.
Not to be Sheldon from Big Bang, but I don’t know if Tim Paterson, who was the nerd Allen bought DOS from, had it written for IMB Microcomputers, which technically were not yet available.
I think he originally made DOS from CP/M, or at least a better disk manager than CP/M had at the time. I was using CP/M at the time on a Digital Research system, and vaguely remember a thing called 86-DOS, which Patterson had made.
I wonder what the hardware was that Allen initially used when he got home with the floppy?
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