Good grief, what a freak show.
Posted on 10/16/2019 7:11:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Amazon is dropping an additional $1 million-plus into Seattle’s pivotal City Council races, boosting its spending on politics in its hometown this year to an unprecedented $1.45 million.
The corporate giant has now shelled out more on the council races than any other business or union, and all of Amazon’s company money has gone to a political-action committee (PAC) associated with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, which has been buying direct-mail advertisements and paying door-to-door canvassers.
Amazon’s outlay is the largest “in anyone’s memory” by a single entity in a Seattle election cycle, said Wayne Barnett, executive director of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission.
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I guess it’s legal.
who needs voters? Amazon has chosen for you.
It being the Mensheviks vs. the Bolsheviks, the Amazon contributions are probably to the less bad side, the one that might actually do something to get the filth off the streets.
What a bunch of morons. Invest million bucks into an already decided party outcome
What a bunch of morons. Invest million bucks into an already decided party outcome
Yes but Amazon owns these politicians now. And when Amazon wants favors and paybacks, guess who is going to deliver?
You can’ buy a communist, but you can never own one. It’s payment to keep them at bay! What then hell can commits do for Amazon? They close shop and instant unemployment . Who has who by the balls?
Amazon will make it all back...…
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Good grief, what a freak show.
Chamber of Socialist Commerce
Maybe they want to save the business by kicking the commies out.
“It being the Mensheviks vs. the Bolsheviks”
It’s like Sunnis vs Shia muslims. When not fighting us they fight each other.
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