{"id":375,"date":"2006-12-19T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2006-12-19T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:18:00","slug":"375","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/19\/375\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Silicon Valley where Politics and Venture Capital Mix <\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is  always interesting to see who is contributing to Congressional representatives and see if it influences their votes.  Silicon Valley&#8217;s representive seems to be a favorite of the Venture Capital firms. Interesting? You decide.<\/p>\n<p><ahref=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.asp?CID=N00012611&#038;cycle=2006\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.asp?CID=N00012611&#038;cycle=2006\">MIKE HONDA (D-CA)<br \/>Top Contributors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1  National Assn of Realtors  $10,000<br \/>2  Laborers Union  $8,500<br \/>3  Air Line Pilots Assn  $7,500<br \/>3  Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers  $7,500<br \/>3  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvca.org\/\">National Venture Capital Assn  $7,500<\/a><br \/>6  International Assn of Fire Fighters  $7,000<br \/>7  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acorncampus.com\/\">Acorn Campus  $6,200<\/a><br \/>8  Assn of Trial Lawyers of America  $6,000<br \/>8  Ironworkers Union  $6,000<br \/>8  Operating Engineers Union  $6,000<br \/>8  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opnext.com\/about\/\">Opnext Inc  <\/a>$6,000<br \/>8  Transportation Communications Union  $6,000<br \/>13  Mele Assoc  $5,848<br \/>14  Credit Union National Assn  $5,500<br \/>15  McDonalds  $5,100<br \/>16  American Federation of Teachers  $5,000<br \/>16  Johnson &#038; Johnson  $5,000<br \/>16  National Air Traffic Controllers Assn  $5,000<br \/>16  Service Employees International Union  $5,000<br \/>16  Teamsters Union  $5,000<br \/>16  United Auto Workers  $5,000<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-116656718797071713?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley where Politics and Venture Capital Mix It is always interesting to see who is contributing to Congressional representatives and see if it influences their votes. Silicon Valley&#8217;s representive seems to be a favorite of the Venture Capital firms. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/12\/19\/375\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}