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"Things have changed fast; Google hardly even had lobbyists back during the SOPA blackout. " Errr, the DC office had 100+ people at that point, so .... (IE i'
by DannyBee 10y ago
"Things have changed fast; Google hardly even had lobbyists back during the SOPA blackout.
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Errr, the DC office had 100+ people at that point, so ....
(IE i'm not sure why you think that, and given it's completely wrong, i'm going to go with 'you just have no idea what you are talking about')
- nnutter 10y agoIt was the rhetoric at the time and it might even be somewhat true, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000022008&year=2011 https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00002200...
- DannyBee 10y agoDepends on how you define lobbyist, i guess, but that's the set of external folks, not internal ones. In any case, i was second person to start in the DC office (after the policy director), so i can assure you i know precisely how many people it had at working on government affairs/lobbying/etc at a given point in time :)
- confounded 10y agoThanks for pointing this out; fixed.