10/15/2013

Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs' wife, helps raise money of anti-gun group

Laurene Jobs is a big giver to Democrats.  So perhaps it isn't too surprising that she is also giving to gun control activists.  From Politico:

Over the past several years, she’s been an active political donor, giving to campaigns for Democratic candidates in her state such as California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, as well as causes such as school reform, according to California Secretary of State records. She recently made a $7,100 donation to Harris’s reelection campaign. 
She has also given to the president and a smattering of Democratic campaign committees and candidates nationally, according to Center for Responsive Politics’ OpenSecrets.org website. This year, she gave $2,600 to Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat running for Senate, and attended a fundraiser at the home of venture capitalist John Doerr for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). In January, she joined her friend Ron Conway, another leading Silicon Valley investor, to help raise money for the anti-gun violence group, Americans for Responsible Solutions. . . . .

Conway is one determined guy on gun control.  From The Verge:

The 45 senators who blocked a gun control amendment despite its 90-plus percent approval rating may be in trouble with the white-haired godfather of Silicon Valley, "super angel" tech investor Ron Conway. 
"We will employ the most sophisticated social media campaign ever built to remove these people from office," Conway told The San Francisco Chronicle. "Our Congress has ceased to be representative. It is up to the citizens to remove those people who don’t represent them." . . . .

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Blogger Unknown said...

Um, why the consistently small quantities? I mean I assume she's richer than Bloomberg and the like; so seven thousand dollars and a Benjy really isn’t much of a donation in the context of such vast wealth.

10/16/2013 3:41 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Um, why the consistently small quantities? I mean I assume she's richer than Bloomberg and the like; so seven thousand dollars and a Benjy really isn’t much of a donation in the context of such vast wealth.

10/16/2013 3:41 AM  

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