Why Google loves Democrats so much

Washington Examiner ^ | Matthew Sheffield

[RatherBiased.com]

After donating just $250 in the year 2000, Google’s employees have been handing out cash hand over fist, almost exclusively to Democrats. In the 2008 election cycle, Schmidt campaigned actively for candidate Barack Obama from very early in primaries. Schmidt and his Google colleagues donated over $800,000 to Obama’s war chest, making the company one of his top-five contributors.

The Democratic giving bias at Google has continued in the 2010 cycle. This year according to data gathered from the website OpenSecrets.org, Google employees have donated over $270,000 to Democrats and liberal campaign groups. They’ve given just $45,000 to Republicans and conservative groups. This dedication to helping Democrats and President Obama in particular has given Google employees and contractors extraordinarily good insider connections, cause for concern that the company, like fellow Democratic-booster General Electric, is using public policy to boost its bottom line.

The fear of Google has gotten so extreme that many political insiders were afraid to go on the record with Politico’s Hart for the piece linked above, an extraordinary amount of influence.

Notable also is that New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer has made it an explicit point to criticize Google’s tech rivals Apple (for faulty iPhone 4 antenna design) and Facebook (for privacy concerns) but remained silent about a major Google privacy scandal that’s still ongoing. Governments and computer users in over 30 countries are up in arms about cars hired by Google to collect street mapping data also collecting private data transmitted on private, unencrypted wireless networks. This practice went on for over 3 years yet Schumer, the former head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, has said nothing about it since it came to light.

[KC_Conspirator]

This dedication to helping Democrats and President Obama in particular has given Google employees and contractors extraordinarily good insider connections, cause for concern that the company, like fellow Democratic-booster General Electric, is using public policy to boost its bottom line.

Its democrap crony capitalism. Same thing with GM, AIG, Goldmine Sacks, etc

[SpaceBar]

Useful idiots always think they’ll avoid being rounded up and shot for helping with the revolution, when in fact they’re amongst the first. See Yuri Bezmenov.

[Gondring]

But Google can be a very integral part of the new NKVD/Gestapo/Stasi

[unixfox]

They’ve given just $45,000 to Republicans and conservative groups.

And just which RINOS and groups would that be?

[MarkL]

I’m not a big fan of Eric Schmidt. He pretty much ran Novell into the ground, a company with really outstanding technical products - Microsoft’s Active Directory can’t hold a candle to Novell’s eDirectory... Sort of like what Carlie Fiorina did to Lucent (Bell Labs).

Mark

[comps4spice]

Google: Searches for/by the “Ruling Class”

[Steely Tom]

Why Google Loves Democrats So Much

Same reason there's going to be a mosque at ground zero, I suppose.

[CaptainK]

I now use https://ssl.scroogle.org/

[steveab]

Bingo. We have a winner. Google is part of Al Gore & company and wants to play a major roll in the UN’s one world governance plan.

[sinanju]

“...All the millions of dollars that Google has given to liberals and Democrats to boost its bottom-line isn’t likely to forestall them from attacking it in the future though. Already there’s talk from the New York Times and others about “search neutrality,” i.e. allowing the government to control what shows up in your search results.

As you might expect, Google is not a fan of this. How ironic that many of the nonsensical justifications for search neutrality are the same that we’ve heard from Google on the question of network neutrality.
Now that Google’s in the left’s cross-hairs one might think that it would motivate the company to stop trying to get the government to bully companies it doesn’t like and embrace the free market. Here’s hoping that is the case.”

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Same old story. No doubt this Schmidt guy and his employees are naturally inclined to favor dems. The sterotypical image is that all IT visionaries are hippie offspring—though I should think libertarianism would be a more natural fit.

Anyway, Like Jeffery Immelt, like the BP types, etc., Schmidt is fooling himself if he thinks he can buy immunity. Big Business is only just finding out that they are ALL on the menu. “Feeding the crocodile in the hope he eats you last” isn’t a long-term business strategy.

I hope (in vain, I’m certain) that if Republicans regain power, that they take measures to simply abandon K-street shakedown strategies in favor of returning to free-market principles. The real problem is, of course, that government has way too much power to manipulate the marketplace for fabulous cash and prizes from the affected industries. If the pubbies work to reject that power and simply leaves industry alone as much as practical, the lobbyists will favor them most of all.

A man can dream, can’t I?

[Incorrigible]

http://www.BING.com

[centurion316]

I’m just guessing, but maybe the Google ownership and the vast majority of its employees are liberals. That could explain it.

[callisto]

Look here:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?capcode=t737k&name=&employ=Google&cand=&state=&zip=&all=N&old=N&c2008=N&c2006=N&c2010=Y&sort=A&page=&page=1

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

So that’s why they knew nothing about the “Bush failure” search results but immediately deleted all the “Obama failure” results.

[wally_bert]

What little I ever worked with Novell stuff, I liked. MS offerings weren’t up to par.

[YankeeReb]

Its democrap crony capitalism. Same thing with GM, AIG, Goldmine Sacks, etc

Let's not forget BP. In every one of those examples the company in question ended up getting screwed over by the progressive /Marxists. Google may be thinking that they'll get something out of the upcoming government takeover of the Internet, but eventually they'll end up on the train with the rest of us.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Google employs people who think they’re much “cooler” than they really are. In reality, they tend to be self-centered, materialistic little nerds with insecurity issues, so they try to compensate by being “out of the mainstream” The “Hey, look at me” syndrome.

Yet when it comes to their own life decisions, they prefer predominantly white neighborhoods, employers, and schools for their kids. They’re speckled throughout conservative neighborhoods for status, stability and of course, protection from their own political constituencies. Hypocrites indeed.

[SpaceBar]

There's also the possibility that being experts in web spidering and archiving, using the latest fast search algorithms on massively parallel architectures doesn't necessarily translate to political common sense.

[MarkL]

The company I work for retired our last Novell NetWare server almost 3 years ago. We were a strictly MS shop, with over 200 servers. But now we’re also starting to add Linux, and we’re bringing Novell back into the mix... SuSe Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop, and Zenworks to manage it.

Security and management was so much easier and granular with NetWare and eDirectory than Server 200x and Active Directory.

Mark

[FrankR]

Maybe it's the same kind of "donations" made for years in the Chicago protection rackets..."support us and your business won't burn" type of thing.

You know, like businesses with unions...you don't join the union you might get your tires cut, or they "know where your family lives".

Years ago someone got the word out that "liberal" meant freedom to do anything you want, like free speech, etc. When in fact, liberals have taken away, or advocate taking away, more basic rights than anyone...including speech.

But, we have already seen, what obama wants, obama takes...and that could include Google...after all, obama's finger is on the master switch....

[sinanju]

Well, the big boys of the digital world, at least, have no doubt learned their lesson. I’m sure they tell each other stories of Bill Gates’ naive folly of twenty/fifteen years ago.

The poor sap actually thought Washington would leave him alone if he left them alone.

Think of it, if he’d sent his minions to Capitol Hill early on, bearing gifts and spreading around the lucre, he could have bought Clinton and Congress for far less than earning their pique and ire ended up costing him. They would have put him on Mt. Rushmore instead of bending him over a log “Deliverance” style.

Hmmm, when’s that “Tron” sequel coming out anyway, and who’s the big villain this time?

[napscoordinator]

I have tried to use Bing and I hate it. Truthfully there is nothing better than google. Unfortunately some here say they are liberal. But when I type my subject into the search mode, I get whatever I need to complete my project and that is really the objective to Google in my opinion.

[napscoordinator]

I believe that McDonald’s gives a ton of money to many places that I might not agree with but guess what? When the kids see those Golden Arches, they are excited and we stop because quite frankly I don’t go into McDonald’s for a lesson in politics, but a burger...that is all nothing more. If I want a lesson on politics, I chose Free Republic ONLY!!!!

[bmwcyle]

These Google idiots have no idea what killers socialist are.

[matt1234]

The address of their company explains a lot:

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Mountain View is approx. 25 miles from San Francisco.

[max americana]

http://www.BING.com

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Heh. My brother’s university bud works for MS and believe me, they’re as Democrat like Google. My brother is a leftie and so’s his friends. From IT to Sales, they worship Obama...even the Xbox people.