THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE?
SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do)
- A Meta-backed political committee reportedly made five expenditures totaling $999,066 supporting Xavier Becerra from October 20–27.
- The New York Post reports more than $1.2 million in earlier spending by the committee.
- California’s next governor will help shape AI, social-media and privacy rules with major implications for Meta.
LAY IT ON ME (I’ve got time)
Big Tech has apparently discovered an instrument more effective than an algorithm for influencing California politics: a campaign-finance checkbook.
According to an October 29 New York Post investigation, a Meta-backed political committee made five expenditures totaling $999,066 benefiting Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra between October 20 and October 27.
That follows more than $1.2 million the political operation reportedly spent earlier in the campaign. California, of course, is a major battleground over artificial intelligence, consumer privacy and online safety regulation.
The spending went through a political committee rather than necessarily into Becerra’s own campaign account — an important legal distinction. But the political interest is no mystery: the state’s governor can help determine which technology rules become law.
I know for a fact that Mark Zuckerberg and senior executives at Meta think Becerra would be a disaster for California’s business climate and economy.
But they just gave Becerra $1 million anyway. This is the level of corruption in California after 16 years of one party rule. Corporations forced to pay protection money to a ruthless, cynical self-serving ruling elite that has ruined the most amazing state in America, and with another four years of unchecked power might possibly drive California’s economy off the cliff.
The business exodus of recent years could turn into a stampede. We already have the highest unemployment rate, highest poverty rate and highest cost of living in America.
You think it couldn’t get worse? You haven’t met Xavier Becerra. He is a 36 year career politician, a complete nonentity who has never had a real job in his life, has lived entirely off the taxpayer, whose record in government was so atrocious that he was considered the most incompetent member of the BIDEN cabinet, and who was the Democrats’ fifth choice for their governor candidate.
He has not put forward a single actual policy solution in this entire campaign. He has in fact run no campaign at all. He is treating Californians with complete arrogance and contempt, not even pretending to try and earn their vote. He smugly assumes that the corrupt California machine – government unions, trial lawyers, Big Business – will put him in office with the $$$ they are spending on TV ads.
Now Mark Zuckerberg has joined in, presumably hoping to buy some Meta carve-outs from the continued anti-business onslaught that would come from another four years of one party rule.
Well if that does happen, @finkd, the sad thing is that your business may be one of the few that can continue to operate here, and you may be one of the few that can afford to live here!
The good news is that most people haven’t voted yet and there is still time to bring some balance and common sense to our government, to improve the business climate, lower the cost of living and avert the disaster of four more years of unchecked Democrat rule.
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Becerra cites his record of challenging large corporations, including Facebook. The Meta-linked support therefore makes for an especially interesting pairing. Perhaps Silicon Valley simply admires vigorous oversight.
Political expenditures do not automatically buy policy outcomes. Voters still have a fair question about why a technology giant’s affiliated political operation considers this race worth millions.
The exact expenditures and their campaign-finance classifications should be cross-checked against California’s official filing database before publication. Regardless, the scale of reported spending deserves attention.
DBS WIRE SOURCES (I have all day)
- New York Post — October 29 spending investigation
- California Secretary of State — Campaign finance filings
- California Fair Political Practices Commission — Rules
