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Zuckerberg immigration group launches 2016 reform blitzby Anna Palmer at Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-immigration-donald-trump-2016-election-216327
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The Mark Zuckerberg-backed group that spent tens of millions on a failed bid for immigration reform is reigniting its efforts for the 2016 election.
Fwd.us is launching a multi-pronged campaign that could spend as much as $10 million over the next year on digital and TV ads, research and polling, according to plans first shared with POLITICO. The initiative includes an expansion of its ground operation into 12 states, focusing on presidential battlegrounds and targeted House seats held by Republicans.
The push comes as GOP front-runner Donald Trump has campaigned on mass deportations and building a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. After the terrorist attacks in Paris, Trump called the Obama administration's plan to allow Syrian refugees in the country "insane." GOP 2016 hopefuls like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ben Carson have followed suit.
Fwd.us is looking to counter the anti-immigration reform rhetoric in the GOP primary and lay the groundwork for an overhaul of the country's immigration laws in early 2017 once the next president takes office. Formed in 2013 by tech giants including Facebook's Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman and Eric Schmidt, among others, the group accounted for 75 percent of all paid media spent in 2013 and 2014 to support immigration reform and had field operations in 29 states and 149 target House districts at the peak of the debate.
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applegrove
(118,460 posts)mucifer
(23,466 posts)Even when I agree with the principle of what he stands for on this issue, he shouldn't have that much money to begin with and all of that money shouldn't be there to influence the way people vote.
Yeah, I know, if he doesn't put his money up for this than it's just more money from the kochs with nothing to offset it.
applegrove
(118,460 posts)to charity in his lifetime. That is over 45 Billion dollars in today's stock value. He is a good egg. He's going to get everyone on the planet onto the internet. He's going to fight for clean energy and fight inequality. He's using his base, the world, to make the world a much better place. I agree citizen's united should be changed and it would be good if the rich could not spend so much on elections. But today, Mark Zuckerberg is one lucky guy. Lucky that he has a healthy daughter. Lucky that he and his wife are planning to stay grounded by giving it all away and staying connected to the world that way. Unlike the kochs who have about the same amount of money if not more and want to make even more and want it no matter who it hurts and kills on the planet. They are polar opposites. There is no comparison at all. Zuckerberg and family will have very, very full lives. The Koch brothers will have empty ones. But in the current reality you would hope that people like Zuckerberg step up to undo the undo influence of the crony capitalists.