WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Employees of U.S.-based search engine Google gave $207,650 to federal candidates for the 2004 elections -- virtually all of it to Democrats.
A USA Today analysis published Monday indicated 98 percent of the money went to Democrats, the most-lopsided giving of any of the top tech company donors.
Microsoft was the biggest tech donor, with its political action committee contributing $3.1 million last year, 60 percent to Democrats.
Overall, 53 percent of high-tech industry contributions went to Democrats, said the liberal Center for Responsive Politics, a group that tracks campaign spending and contributions.
Republicans must work hard to win support from a company whose employees seem philosophically wed to Democrats, CRP's Larry Noble said.
Google declined to discuss employee campaign contributions but the among the company's top 2004 givers was Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt, whose biggest single donation was $25,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
It didn't much matter who they gave their money to, now did it? If they want to throw good money after bad politicians, that's their business. As for mine, if I want to find something, I'll keep using Google. If you build a better mousetrap, I'll buy it no matter if you are a Democrat or a Communist or a Purple People Eater. As would anybody who drives a Volkswagen (manufactured using slave labor in Nazi Germany), shoots an AK-47 (designed, built, and sold by Communists), or, as the article pointed out, is reading this message on a machine with Windows (Microsoft gave more to Democrats).
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AllenT got me onto Yahoo when I was having certain 'puter problems...and it's been the best search engine I've ever had. Yes, I'm a fan of YAHOO, for sure. :right:
