Well, not me, but I'm not the whole technology sector. But it doesn't surprise me, given that the main political ideology of the sector is economic libertarian and its chief interest is $$$$$. See Paulina Boorsook's "CyberSelfish." George Gilder has become a Silicon Valley economic guru.
Peter Kosenko
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:05:34
>[From The Industry Standard]
>
>Unnatural Allies
>
>While liberals fight the Ashcroft nomination, tech leaders join the
>religious right to back Bush's choice for attorney general.
>
>By Keith Perine
>
>WASHINGTON – As senators weigh George W. Bush's nomination of John Ashcroft
>for attorney general, the battle lines could not be starker. On one side is
>a liberal coalition of civil rights advocates, feminists and
>environmentalists outraged by Ashcroft's arch-conservative political views.
>On the other side are GOP activists, the Christian right and the technology
>industry.
>
>The technology industry?
>
>Ashcroft's rigid stands on abortion, civil rights and other hot-button
>issues may put him on the margins of American political thought. But the
>former Missouri senator, a Republican defeated for re-election last
>November, has long championed issues near and dear to the heart of
>technology executives.
>
>The Information Technology Association of America, whose members include
>companies from Amazon.com (AMZN) to ZapMe, has called on the Senate
>Judiciary Committee to approve Ashcroft swiftly, casting his nomination as a
>"win-win" for high-tech firms.
>
>"We're simply looking at where he's been for industry – that's the bottom
>line," says Connie Correll of the Information Technology Industry Council,
>whose staffers have telephoned senators to voice support for Ashcroft.
>
>[Full text:
>http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,21460,00.html]
>
>Carl
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