Political Donations of Seattle Notables

[lazymalevolence]

I recently found out about a nifty web application that is basically a database of every donor to 2008 US presidential election campaigns as of the end of last June. I was (really) bored one day, so I went through every ZIP code in Seattle and found several interesting donations:

Comments

[fitstabarmada]

Well the Sr. is Bill Gates' (of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fame) father, who I guess is also not monolithic and evil but a different person nonetheless.

[fitstabarmada]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/09/18/microsoft.gates.ap/index.html

[tiff_seattle]

William Gates Executive
Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn.
Barack Obama$2,300

Howard Schultz
Chairman
Starbucks
John Edwards$2,300

Paul Allen
Chairman
Charter Communications
Hillary Clinton$4,600

[tiff_seattle]

ok i just realized you posted most of those already :p

[hobbledehoy]

why multiples of 2300? :: confused face ::