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I work for a government contractor and I have given money to Francine Busby. SAIC and Qualcomm are two of the largest local employers, so why is it surprising that a politician would receive contributions from employees of these companies?
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by AaronInSanDiego on Thu Apr 06, 2006 at 11:31:56 PM PDT
I doubt they're fooling anyway, but i do think it should be addressed by busby, quickly, to dispel any misconceptions.
by anthonyLA on Thu Apr 06, 2006 at 11:47:16 PM PDT
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just giving you a heads up that I wrote a whole diary about you (click on my handle), cross-posted at calitics. heh. Let me know if you want your name off it or something. I just riff'ed on the whole idea of who else have Q employees donated to? (as you could probably guess, it is just about everybody since there are so many employees)
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by reid fan on Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 08:31:52 AM PDT
I don't work at Qualcomm, but another local government contractor. Also, my brother-in-law, who works at the same company as me, actually had his name listed in the ad!
by AaronInSanDiego on Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 10:37:22 PM PDT
Give your brother-in-law my condolences!! That is AWFUL of them to drag innocent people into this. How chilling that simply by donating his own money to a campaign, his name can be blasted all over TV making it look like he did something wrong. Has there been any talk of a legal complaint or something??
by reid fan on Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 10:45:52 PM PDT
to the stations that aired the ad asking them to stop showing it, or face legal action. Others are doing the same, I believe. I'm not sure what other actions the Busby campaign is taking.
On the positive side, he told me that some people who originally were going to vote against Busby are now going to vote for her because of this ad!
by AaronInSanDiego on Sat Apr 08, 2006 at 08:31:19 AM PDT
going around the Qualcomm offices pointing out that NRCC thinks a donation from them constitutes a "scandal" worthy of a TV ad. I can't imagine someone not wanting to go vote against that. I'd be PISSED!!
by reid fan on Sat Apr 08, 2006 at 07:31:09 PM PDT
I thought if you worked for a government contractor, you were not allowed to donate. Or is that for people who only work for the government?
by jiacinto on Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 09:39:05 AM PDT
between being a government contractor, and emloyees of companies who happen to have government contracts. KFC has a government contract--have you seen the KFC on one of the bases in Iraq? It would be absurd to say that no employee of PepsiCo can ever donate to a campaign because of that (not only no KFC employees, but no Pizza Hut delivery guys, etc...) There probably aren't any compaines over a certain size that don't have SOME government contracts. IBM, Cisco, any computer company will. There wouldn't hardly be an emloyee in the state of California who could donate to campaigns if you follow this logic.
The "government contractor" is if you work for the federal government, but you are classified as "contractor" instead of "civil servant." At many agencies, the two categories work alongside each other in official gov't buildings, etc. BIG difference from Qualcomm, KFC, etc.
by reid fan on Fri Apr 07, 2006 at 09:50:35 AM PDT
wide narrow
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