According to the
Center for Responsive Politics’ list of candidates receiving the most money from Wall Street donors, Ro Khanna is #3. He finds himself at the top of the list along with notable Republicans - John Boehner, Eric Cantor, and Paul Ryan. Of the just over $3 million raised by the Khanna campaign, $593,150 came from donors working on Wall Street.
Ro Khanna was also found by CrowdPac to be the #2 "Fat Cat", of the approximately 1200 people running for congress across the country, Khanna was second with donors who donated over $2,500. On that list includes Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella who gave $2,600 after recent reports that Khanna did not have enough money to cover his staff’s payroll through the election. Ro Khanna had spent most of his money during the primary election. Despite outspending Democratic congressman Mike Honda 2 to 1, he came in second, over 20% behind Honda in the 'top-two' election.
Mr. Nadella was widely blasted in early October for his comments to women seeking equal pay.
It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that quite frankly women who don’t ask for a raise have. Because that’s good karma. It’ll come back, because somebody’s going to know that’s the kind of person that I want to trust. That’s the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.
Satya Nadella 10/13
He was not the only High-Tech CEO and Khanna donor to find himself in the news in the last few weeks. CEO, Guy Gecht of Electronics for Imaging is also one of Khanna’s “Fat Cat” donors. After EFI was found by the U.S. Dept. of Labor to be paying some of their foreign workers as little as $1.21 an hour,
Ro Khanna refused to return the money donated by Gecht.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, none of the above includes the super PAC created specifically for Ro Khanna by “Fat Cat” donor and Former Goldman Sachs employee, Ash Chopra. The super PAC called, Californians for Innovation has raised over $800,000 in just over a month. Of the money raised, $332,000 came after a recent Federal Election Commission deadline, which means the donors will remain undisclosed until December, well after the election.
Other undisclosed donors have funneled $80,000 through Act Blue and the mysterious OO Investments LLC that donated $25,000. Neither of the corporate registrations filed in Delaware or California list OO Investments’ executives.
Of the super PAC donors that have been disclosed, $250,000 came from Texas billionaire John Arnold and his wife Laura. Arnold has also given $300,000 to back a Michelle Rhee supported candidate running for California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction. Much of the remaining came from numerous Venture Capitalists.
