dChan
Anonymous ID: aded87 Feb. 10, 2020, 10:59 a.m. No.8093646   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>3932

10,599 Corporate Lawyers Have Donated to Buttigieg’s Campaign: Here Are the Dirty Little Secrets

 

edited for relevant content'

 

Supporting the scenario that Buttigieg is a strawman for the diabolical Mike Bloomberg (who bought himself a third term as Mayor of New York City by financing the repeal of term limits and has now likely managed to insert himself onto the Democratic debate stage through a convenient rule change) is the fact that the Global Head of Public Policy at Bloomberg LP, the Wall Street data terminal and news outlet that is majority owned by Mike Bloomberg, is a bundler for Pete Buttigieg. The bundler is Didem Nisanci, who conveniently served as Chief of Staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from March 2009 to January 2013, the period after the financial crisis when the SEC failed to bring charges against any of the CEOs of the mega Wall Street banks that had brought on the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. As of September 14 of last year, Nisanci had contributed $2800, the maximum allowed by an individual to Buttigieg’s primary race. Prior to Mike Bloomberg throwing his own hat in the ring in November, Buttigieg had received additional contributions from other Bloomberg employees.

 

Bloomberg’s wealth of $61.5 billion and ongoing income derives from the data terminals he leases to the Wall Street trading floors around the globe. He showed his fealty to the hands that feed him on Wall Street as Mayor of New York City, using his police force to brutalize and bloody Wall Street protestors and coming down like the Gestapo during the eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan.

 

And now for the third scenario – knock Senator Elizabeth Warren out of the race. Around the same time last spring that Warren penned her scorching opinion piece at Medium on why it was critical to break up the giant tech firms Amazon, Google, and Facebook, bundlers connected to the three tech giants got busy pumping money into Buttigieg’s campaign. Ironically, this was the very thing Senator Warren was warning about in her Medium message. Warren wrote:

 

“Today’s big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They’ve bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. And in the process, they have hurt small businesses and stifled innovation.

 

“I want a government that makes sure everybody — even the biggest and most powerful companies in America — plays by the rules. And I want to make sure that the next generation of great American tech companies can flourish. To do that, we need to stop this generation of big tech companies from throwing around their political power to shape the rules in their favor and throwing around their economic power to snuff out or buy up every potential competitor.”

 

An analysis of donor data at the Federal Election Commission shows the following number of donor entries from Big Tech and their leading antitrust law firms to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign:

 

654 contributions from Google Employees

 

373 contributions from Microsoft employees

 

351 from Apple employees

 

259 from Amazon employees

 

122 from Facebook employees

 

101 from Netflix employees

 

61 from law firm Kirkland & Ellis

 

36 from law firm King & Spalding

 

27 from law firm Paul Weiss

 

20 from law firm Wilson Sonsini

 

13 from law firm Weil Gotshal

 

Recode reported on December 13 that some of the biggest names in tech were throwing a fundraiser for Buttigieg, writing: “A host list circulated to prospective donors for an event on Monday morning in Palo Alto, California, features individuals with family ties to some of the most prominent people in Big Tech. Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings is listed as a co-host of the event, as is Nicole Shanahan, the wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Wendy Schmidt, the wife of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; and Michelle Sandberg, the sister of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, sources say.”

 

Another law firm that is more closely identified with Wall Street’s mega banks than with Big Tech is Sullivan & Cromwell. Politico reported that H. Rodgin (Rodge) Cohen, the Senior Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell, and his wife, Barbara, were bundlers for Buttigieg but that their names had been omitted from Buttigieg’s bundler disclosures on his website. (We checked this morning and they’re still not listed there.) Rodge Cohen is not listed as a donor to Buttigieg in FEC records but his wife, Barbara, is listed as giving $5,000 to Buttigieg’s campaign on June 14, 2019 for the primary and general election. FEC records also show 66 entries for employees of Sullivan & Cromwell who have made contributions.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/02/10599-corporate-lawyers-have-donated-to-buttigiegs-campaign-here-are-the-dirty-little-secrets/