{"id":12773,"date":"2010-10-27T22:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-27T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T22:15:24","slug":"why-are-google-hp-ebay-and-yahoo-funding-attack-ads-in-californias-ag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/27\/why-are-google-hp-ebay-and-yahoo-funding-attack-ads-in-californias-ag-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Google, HP, eBay and Yahoo Funding Attack Ads in California’s AG Race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Attorney General’s race, things have taken a turn for the nasty. The latest incident is a huge television buy<\/a> opposing San Francisco DA Kamala Harris on the death penalty. Without going into the details, it is an extremely cynical ad, even in a season of such ads. It calls for an unflinching adherence without a consideration of the individual facts.<\/p>\n

The ad was paid for by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie’s Republican State Leadership Committee. The group is funded mostly with a variety of tobacco and oil money. However a few entries in their contribution history<\/a> stand out:<\/p>\n


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\n
\n
Donor<\/TD>
\n 		Date<\/TD>
\n 		Contribution<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Google<\/TD>
\n 		07\/30\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$20,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Yahoo!<\/TD>
\n 		05\/21\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$45,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Hewlett Packard<\/TD>
\n 		06\/04\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$36,500<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
eBay<\/TD>
\n 		03\/05\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$40,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n<\/TABLE><\/p>\n

Why are a small group of Silicon Valley companies paying for a cynical attack ad? After all, Google’s slogan is “Don’t be evil.” How else can we describe the politics that brings together tobacco and oil money to do a widespread attack “issue” ad in a county that is 350 miles away from San Francisco?<\/p>\n

Google, Yahoo, and the other tech companies should probably consider why exactly they have teamed up with Karl Rove to bring this brand of politics to our airwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Attorney General’s race, things have taken a turn for the nasty. The latest incident is a huge television buy<\/a> opposing San Francisco DA Kamala Harris on the death penalty. Without going into the details, it is an extremely cynical ad, even in a season of such ads. It calls for an unflinching adherence without a consideration of the individual facts.<\/p>\n

The ad was paid for by Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie’s Republican State Leadership Committee. The group is funded mostly with a variety of tobacco and oil money. However a few entries in their contribution history<\/a> stand out:<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Donor<\/TD>
\n 		Date<\/TD>
\n 		Contribution<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Google<\/TD>
\n 		07\/30\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$20,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Yahoo!<\/TD>
\n 		05\/21\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$45,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
Hewlett Packard<\/TD>
\n 		06\/04\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$36,500<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n
eBay<\/TD>
\n 		03\/05\/2010<\/TD>
\n 		$40,000<\/TD>
\n<\/TR>
\n<\/TABLE><\/p>\n

Why are a small group of Silicon Valley companies paying for a cynical attack ad? After all, Google’s slogan is “Don’t be evil.” How else can we describe the politics that brings together tobacco and oil money to do a widespread attack “issue” ad in a county that is 350 miles away from San Francisco?<\/p>\n

Google, Yahoo, and the other tech companies should probably consider why exactly they have teamed up with Karl Rove to bring this brand of politics to our airwaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3k1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}