{"id":3874,"date":"2006-05-18T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T17:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/05\/18\/watering-the-grass-roots-with-cash\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T17:41:36","slug":"watering-the-grass-roots-with-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/watering-the-grass-roots-with-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Watering the grass roots with cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDid you know Google is Moveon.org&#8217;s biggest supporter? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.org\/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9821\">read The American Spectator:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGoogle has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation. Some of that money has gone to an online petition drive and a letter-writing campaign, but the majority of that money is being used to fund their activities against Republicans out in the states.<\/p>\n<p>For example, MoveOn is said by one DNC source to have funneled at least $100,000 &#8220;Net Neutrality&#8221; money to its operations in Pennsylvania (where MoveOn is organizing against Sen. Rick Santorum). It has also sent funds to Florida, Ohio, and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>MoveOn is also using the funds to help Democrats, including House minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state. &#8220;A month ago, Representative Pelosi didn&#8217;t know what Net Neutrality was, then she heard that Google and other Silicon Valley firms wanted it. Now it&#8217;s one of her top issues. What Silicon Valley wants, Silicon Valley gets,&#8221; says a House Democrat leadership staffer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time for a little anti-trust action against Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know Google is Moveon.org&#8217;s biggest supporter? read The American Spectator: Google has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/watering-the-grass-roots-with-cash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watering the grass roots with cash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-10u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}