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Kamala Harris Endorsed for President by 88 Business Leaders Including James Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Mark Cuban, Barry Diller
Variety ^ | Todd Spangler

Posted on 09/12/2024 4:47:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway

VP Kamala Harris has garnered support for her 2024 presidential campaign from executives spanning multiple industry sectors including Hollywood in a new open letter signed by 88 business leaders.

Signatories to the letter, first reported by CNBC, include James Murdoch, founder and CEO of investment firm Lupa Systems and former CEO of 21st Century Fox — whose political leanings are sharply divergent from those of his father, conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

Hollywood names on the list include Peter Chernin, co-founder and partner of the Chernin Group holding company; Jeff Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner; Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and former CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox; and Michael Lynton, chairman of Snap and former CEO of Sony Entertainment. Also signing the letter is outspoken billionaire Mark Cuban, a co-host of ABC’s “Shark Tank” and former owner of the Dallas Mavericks.

Not surprisingly, the letter’s signatories include Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former studio exec who was a major fundraiser for President Biden before Biden dropped out of the race. Katzenberg is currently founder and managing partner of investment firm WndrCo.; prior to launching his ill-fated Quibi streaming venture, he was CEO of DreamWorks Animation and head of Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Pictures.

The letter does not call out Donald Trump by name. Harris’ election “is the best way to support the continued strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy,” the letter says. “With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to thrive.”

The business leaders touted Harris’ “strong record of advancing actions to spur business investment in the United States and ensure American businesses can compete and win in the global market” during her tenure as VP to President Biden. “She will continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment, and she will strive to give every American the opportunity to pursue the American dream,” it says.

Other execs signing the letter include Maverick Carter, CEO of the SpringHill Co. (co-founded with LeBron James); Ted Leonsis, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, who owns the NBA’s Washington Wizards, WNBA’s Mystics and the NHL’s Washington Capitals; Charles Phillips, former president of Oracle, ex-CEO of Infor and current Paramount Global board member; and NBA great Earvin “Magic” Johnson, chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises.

Other notable names on the list, who are longtime Democratic boosters, include Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective; John Doerr, chairman of VC firm Kleiner Perkins; Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary; and Reid Hoffman, partner at Greylock Partners and executive chairman of LinkedIn.

Other Hollywood execs who have backed Harris include Netflix executive chairman Reed Hastings. Celebs endorsing her include George Clooney, Shonda Rhimes, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Nick Offerman, Mark Hamill, Jeff Bridges and J.J. Abrams.

Here’s the text of the letter with all of the signatories, in alphabetical order (via CNBC):

We endorse Kamala Harris’s election as President of the United States.

Her election is the best way to support the continued strength, security, and reliability of our democracy and economy. With Kamala Harris in the White House, the business community can be confident that it will have a President who wants American industries to thrive. As a partner to President Biden, Vice President Harris has a strong record of advancing actions to spur business investment in the United States and ensure American businesses can compete and win in the global market. She will continue to advance fair and predictable policies that support the rule of law, stability, and a sound business environment, and she will strive to give every American the opportunity to pursue the American dream.

Roger Altman, Founder & Senior Chairman of Evercore

Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream

Carl Bass, former CEO of Autodesk

Tom Bernstein, President and Co-Founder of Chelsea Piers

Afasaneh Beschloss, Founder & CEO of Rock Creek

Jeff Bewkes, former CEO of Time Warner

W. Michael Blumenthal, 64th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former CEO of both Bendix and Unisys

Rosalind “Roz” Brewer, former CEO of Sam’s Club; former CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance; former COO of Starbucks

Ursula Burns, former CEO of Xerox; Chairwoman of Teneo; Founding Partner of Integrum Holdings

Maverick Carter, CEO of The SpringHill Company

Ken Chenault, Chairman & Managing Director of General Catalyst; former Chairman & CEO of American Express

Peter Chernin, Co-Founder & Partner of TCG

Tony Coles, Chairperson & former CEO of Cerevel

Tim Collins, Founder, CEO, and Senior Managing Director of Ripplewood

Ron Conway, Founder & Managing Partner of SV Angel

Robert Crandall, former President and Chairman of American Airlines

Mark Cuban, Various entrepreneurial endeavors and a “shark” on Shark Tank

Richelieu Dennis, Founder and Executive Chair of Sundial Group of Companies

Barry Diller, Chairman & Senior Executive of IAC and Senior Executive of Expedia; Former Chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Fox, Inc.

John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins

Arnold Donald, former CEO of Carnival Corporation

Blair Effron, Partner & Co-Founder of Centerview Partners

José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Clearlake Capital Group

David P. Fialkow, Co-Founder & Managing Director of General Catalyst

Anne Finucane, former Vice Chair of Bank of America

Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Chief Executive of E.L. Rothschild

Ken Frazier, former Executive Chairman, President & CEO of Merck

Mark Gallogly, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Three Cairns Group; Co-Founder of Centerbridge Partners

Chad Gifford, Former Chairman of Bank of America

David Grain, Founder and CEO of Grain Management

Logan Green, Chairman and former CEO of Lyft

Daniel J. Halpern, Co-founder and CEO of Jackmont Hospitality

Bruce Heyman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and former Managing Director of Private Wealth at Goldman Sachs

Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President of Ariel Investments; Chairman of Starbucks

Roger Hochschild, former CEO and President of Discover Financial Services

Reid Hoffman, Partner at Greylock Partners and Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn

Glenn Hutchins, Chairman of North Island or Co-Founder of Silver Lake

Blake Irving, former CEO of GoDaddy

Tony James, former President, CEO & Executive Vice Chairman of Blackstone; Founder of Jefferson River Capital

David Jacobson, Senior Advisor and former Vice Chair of BMO Financial Group; Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada

Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises

Brad Karp, Chairman of Paul, Weiss

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founder & Managing Partner of WndrCo

Ellen Kullman, President and CEO of Carbon3; former Chair and CEO of DuPont

Todd Lachman, Founder of Sovos Brands

Chris Larsen, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Ripple

Jeff Lawson, former CEO of Twilio

Ted Leonsis, CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment

Aaron Levie, Co-Founder & CEO of Box

Ed Lewis, former Chairman and CEO of Essence Communications, co-founder Essence Magazine

William M. Lewis, Jr.

Michael Lynton, Chairman of Snap, Inc., former CEO of Sony Entertainment

Tracy V. Maitland, President and Chief Investment Officer of Advent Capital Management

Helena Maus, CEO of Archetype and Marker Collective

Marissa Mayer, co-founder and CEO of Sunshine Products, former CEO of Yahoo!

T.J. McGill, Co-Founder of Evergreen Pacific Partners and Suzanne Sinegal McGill, Co-Founder of Rwanda Girls Initiative

Danny Meyer, Founder & Executive Chairman of Union Square Hospitality Group

Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder and CEO of Asana

Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford

Anne Mulcahy, former Chairman and CEO of Xerox

James Murdoch, Founder & CEO of Lupa Systems; former CEO of 21st Century Fox

Laxman Narasimhan, former CEO of Starbucks

Indra Nooyi, former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo

Peter Orszag, former Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget and CEO of Lazard

Deven J. Parekh, Managing Director of Insight Partners

Sean Parker, Founder of Napster; Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

Charles Phillips, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Recognize; former President of Oracle and former CEO of Infor

Laurene Powell Jobs, Founder and President of Emerson Collective

Penny Pritzker, 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce; founder and Chairman of PSP Partners

Vasant Prabhu, former CFO and Vice-Chair of Visa

Spencer Rascoff, Founder and CEO of 75 & Sunny Ventures; Co-Founder and former CEO of Zillow

Punit Renjen

Rachel Romer, Founder of Guild Education

Robert Rubin, former U.S. Treasury Secretary; Senior Counselor at Centerview Partners

Kevin P. Ryan, Co-founder, MongoDB, Business Insider, GILT Groupe, Zola, Pearl Health, Affect Therapeutics, and Transcend Therapeutics

Faiza J. Saeed

Dan Schulman, former President & CEO of PayPal

Jim Sinegal, Co-Founder and Former CEO of Costco

Dan Springer, former CEO of Docusign

Tom Steyer, Founder and former Co-Senior-Managing-Partner of Farallon Capital

Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp

Scott Stuart, Founding & Managing Partner of Sageview Capital

Larry Summers, 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury and President Emeritus of Harvard University

Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder & CEO of Chobani

Daniel Weiss, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Angeleno Group

Steve Westly, Founder and Managing Partner of The Westly Group

Ron Williams, former CEO of Aetna

Robert Wolf, former CEO of UBS Americas


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barrydiller; bfgd; demonicrats; enemieslist; globalists; jamesmurdoch; kamala; loserlist; losers; markcuban; nwo; peterchernin; progressivekamala; terroristfunding; usefulidiots
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1 posted on 09/12/2024 4:47:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: All

Can’t stop the endless hordes of low wage workers


2 posted on 09/12/2024 4:48:32 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: nickcarraway
James Murdoch had a falling out with his father. Now that Lachlan is the chosen successor, he's not much of an ideologue.

If James take over, Fox News will turn into the next CNN.

3 posted on 09/12/2024 4:51:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

Just rich filth. Who cares?


4 posted on 09/12/2024 4:54:59 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: nickcarraway

Pro-Marxist “business” leaders who hate Trump so much they are willing to destroy the Capitalist system that brought them their own wealth!


5 posted on 09/12/2024 4:56:30 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: nickcarraway

Not smart .. they just doxed their own bunch of losers.


6 posted on 09/12/2024 4:56:51 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: nickcarraway

How many of those on the list have FAVORED STATUS and influence politics. They will be swept away when the Government Gravy Train stops. How many MILLION small businesses are going to vote for Trump? People at the top, obviously don’t want to loose their leverage and ability to buy favors from Government Leaders.. That is easy to see.


7 posted on 09/12/2024 4:57:42 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: nickcarraway

These are the oligarchs that are raiding the USA treasury. Those that benefit from Crony Capitalism.

I am glad they outed themselves. They are going to be dealt with just like what the Bolsheviks did to Nikolai Romanov and his family. /spit


8 posted on 09/12/2024 4:58:04 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: nickcarraway

Out of touch ceo who think thir opinions mean anything to us.


9 posted on 09/12/2024 4:59:34 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: nickcarraway

Verily, like unto Queers For Palestine.


10 posted on 09/12/2024 5:00:00 PM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: nickcarraway; lightman

Shame on you, Magic Johnson!

You were great at Michigan State, and in the NBA!

Now you’re just a toady for kamala and the Dims.

Then there’s Marissa Mayer, a woman executive, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ‘Nuf said!


11 posted on 09/12/2024 5:01:37 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: nickcarraway

probably mostly about getting federal grant money.


12 posted on 09/12/2024 5:03:20 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Bonemaker

So 88 votes for the cackling idiot. These kind of endorsement letters are as worthless as what they are printed on. All of these people would vote for a monkey if it had a D after its name.


13 posted on 09/12/2024 5:04:31 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: MinorityRepublican
James Murdoch had a falling out with his father. Now that Lachlan is the chosen successor, he's not much of an ideologue. If James take over, Fox News will turn into the next CNN.

Yup, James Murdoch has left the building.

James left Sky News when Comcast took over and he left 21st Century Fox when it was sold.

James then resigned from the board of News Corp.

14 posted on 09/12/2024 5:05:38 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: nickcarraway

The hogs always like whoever brings out the slop bucket. Piggies all….


15 posted on 09/12/2024 5:06:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: nickcarraway

A lot of “formers” on that list.


16 posted on 09/12/2024 5:06:34 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: nickcarraway

And my whole Softball team endorsed President Trump - what’s your point?


17 posted on 09/12/2024 5:08:23 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: nickcarraway

Do we really need to see the whole filthy list?


18 posted on 09/12/2024 5:09:23 PM PDT by Eli Kopter
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To: nickcarraway

February 2022 : Kamala Harris met with Zelensky and gave a speech declaring Ukraine should join NATO. Russia invaded 4 days later declaring Ukraine joining NATO a direct threat to them.


19 posted on 09/12/2024 5:11:03 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: nickcarraway

And 51 former intel agents as well no doubt as well, well well.


20 posted on 09/12/2024 5:12:41 PM PDT by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count)
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