Posted on 05/31/2022 9:32:23 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Patty Quillin, wife of Netflix's CEO, gave $1M to group backing Chesa Boudin against recall efforts
A group aimed at overhauling California's criminal justice system that's bankrolled by a handful of wealthy donors, including Patty Quillin, the wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, has poured six figures into efforts to save liberal San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from his recall election.
The Smart Justice California Action Fund, an alliance of left-wing donors targeting criminal justice-related initiatives that also backs progressive politicians in the state, poured $115,000 into Boudin's committee on May 10 to help the controversial DA stave off the recall effort, San Francisco filings show.
The coalition of left-wing donors hopes to keep Boudin in office as critics attempt to oust him in the June 7 recall over what they say is his lack of criminal enforcement and failure to make San Francisco safe.
Smart Justice, which is also working to boost California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Golden State's far-left top prosecutor, has been funded primarily by Quillin, who pushed $1 million into the committee on March 16, state filings show.
Smart Justice has also received generous six-figure contributions this year from Elizabeth Simons, daughter of hedge fund billionaire James Simons, who provided a $500,000 donation. Kaitlyn Krieger, the wife of Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and the president of the Future Justice Fund, a San Francisco-based criminal justice reform grant-making organization, added $225,000. Director Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw have contributed $35,000 to the fund, records show.
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Looks like the NetFix is in.
Somebody’s having second thoughts about Chesa? First I’ve heard of it.
You need to keep up! There’s a recall election next week
So obvious. Hard to believe the fella’s worth saving.
Good one...
I’d like to see a limit on how much these billionaires can
contribute to things political.
It makes them 1,000s of times more powerful than the normal
citizens, and that isn’t equal in any sense of the word.
Remarkable how leftists are so obsessed with money. Socialism, in fact, starts with that very disease.
Would be impossible to explain it to them, but capitalism is not about money: it’s about efficient allocation of resources that results in a common good, the antithesis of socialism.
1% trying to run eveyrone’s lives.
Capitalism is about free-will and cooperation. Under capitalism, we all freely choose to enter into mutual exchange (or not) where all parties receive benefit. Capitalism creates community, creates social bonds. Also the antitheses of socialism.
A wealthy liberal socialite bankrolling a soft on crime DA and who will never have to face the consequences or dangers that result from those policies. We really are back to the 1970s.
I was just thinking about the terrible decision of last week’s Georgia Secretary of State election.
The Left always manages to come up with dirty tricks...that work. I know that Dims crossed over and voted for the R, but what can we do about it.
I’m thinking, and this is crazy and wouldn’t work, but:
SUPPOSE GA HAD AN ORGANIZED, PLANNED WRITE IN VOTE.
Jody Hice made a good showing in spite of the nefarious plan.
Murkowski did it in Alaska and that may be the difference.
I guess it would not be possible to get a state like Georgia to get that done.
That’s a lot of bribe money to spread around.
He’s politically dead, Jim
You heard it here first my fellow FReepers
Federal
https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/
California
https://www.fppc.ca.gov/learn/campaign-rules/state-contribution-limits.html
Thank you for those links.
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