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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:41, 29 March 2022</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l88">Line 88:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 88:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* American Edge Assembled A Leadership Team With Immense Political Influence And Close Ties To Big Tech. American Edge assembled a team of advisors with political influence and close ties to big tech. According to the Washington Post, American Edge “[came] together with the aid of top Democratic and Republican operatives.” Its paid advisors were comprised of former members of Congress and political officials, tasked with influencing their friends and former colleagues to uphold big tech interests. Moreover, many advisors held personal financial interests in big tech’s success.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* American Edge Assembled A Leadership Team With Immense Political Influence And Close Ties To Big Tech. American Edge assembled a team of advisors with political influence and close ties to big tech. According to the Washington Post, American Edge “[came] together with the aid of top Democratic and Republican operatives.” Its paid advisors were comprised of former members of Congress and political officials, tasked with influencing their friends and former colleagues to uphold big tech interests. Moreover, many advisors held personal financial interests in big tech’s success.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Frances Townsend, a former White House Counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser, served on American Edge’s National Security Advisory Board. Townsend had connections to numerous other organizations that relied on big tech for funding. Townsend was on the board of directors of the Atlantic Council, which was funded by Facebook and Google. Notably, in October 2021, American Edge partnered with the Atlantic Council on a report critical of China’s influence over technology standards-setting. Townsend was also a member of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which was funded by Apple and Google, as well as the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, which was funded by Microsoft, Facebook, and Google.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Frances Townsend, a former White House Counterterrorism and Homeland Security adviser, served on American Edge’s National Security Advisory Board. Townsend had connections to numerous other organizations that relied on big tech for funding. Townsend was on the board of directors of the Atlantic Council, which was funded by Facebook and Google. Notably, in October 2021, American Edge partnered with the Atlantic Council on a report critical of China’s influence over technology standards-setting. Townsend was also a member of the board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which was funded by Apple and Google, as well as the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, which was funded by Microsoft, Facebook, and Google.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Another American Edge advisory board member with ties to big tech was Democratic former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. As a Senator, Heitkamp accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from tech companies. Per OpenSecrets, Heitkamp’s fourth largest donor sector throughout her career was “communications/electronics,” and her third biggest donor was Google’s parent company, Alphabet. From 2013 to 2018, Heitkamp’s top overall donor was Google, which gave the Senator more than $131,000. Over that same period, Facebook gave Heitkamp $10,000 in donations. Although she is no longer a Senator, Heitkamp may still have a financial stake in big tech’s success. As of her most recent personal financial disclosure from 2019, Heitkamp reported holding stock in Apple and Google. Additionally, in 2019, Heitkamp launched an advocacy organization called the One Country Project in coordination with the lobbying firm Forbes Tate. The two groups reportedly had the same address, and One Country’s executive director was a partner at Forbes Tate. According to the Forbes Tate website, tech lobbying was one of the firm’s areas of specialty. From 2012 to 2014, Forbes Tate earned $200,000 lobbying on behalf of Amazon<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. In 2020, a coalition of progressive organizations wrote the Biden Administration a letter opposing Heitkamp’s consideration for USDA secretary. The letter noted Heitkamp’s ties to big tech through One Country and Forbes Tate</del>.  </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Another American Edge advisory board member with ties to big tech was Democratic former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. As a Senator, Heitkamp accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from tech companies. Per OpenSecrets, Heitkamp’s fourth largest donor sector throughout her career was “communications/electronics,” and her third biggest donor was Google’s parent company, Alphabet. From 2013 to 2018, Heitkamp’s top overall donor was Google, which gave the Senator more than $131,000. Over that same period, Facebook gave Heitkamp $10,000 in donations. Although she is no longer a Senator, Heitkamp may still have a financial stake in big tech’s success. As of her most recent personal financial disclosure from 2019, Heitkamp reported holding stock in Apple and Google. Additionally, in 2019, Heitkamp launched an advocacy organization called the One Country Project in coordination with the lobbying firm Forbes Tate. The two groups reportedly had the same address, and One Country’s executive director was a partner at Forbes Tate. According to the Forbes Tate website, tech lobbying was one of the firm’s areas of specialty. From 2012 to 2014, Forbes Tate earned $200,000 lobbying on behalf of Amazon.  </div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Republican former U.S. Representative and American Edge Advisory Board Member Greg Walden also had ties to big tech. According to OpenSecrets, “communications/electronics” was Walden’s second biggest donor sector throughout his career. From 2012 to 2019, Walden accepted $31,000 in donations from Facebook. As a Congressman, Walden was a friend to Facebook. He chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and called for “light-touch regulation, not heavy-handed government” when it came to regulating the tech industry. Additionally, Walden represented a district in Oregon where Facebook did “a lot of business” and received big tax breaks for data centers. Slate pointed out the tax breaks as a potential conflict of interest when Walden led Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>**Republican former U.S. Representative and American Edge Advisory Board Member Greg Walden also had ties to big tech. According to OpenSecrets, “communications/electronics” was Walden’s second biggest donor sector throughout his career. From 2012 to 2019, Walden accepted $31,000 in donations from Facebook. As a Congressman, Walden was a friend to Facebook. He chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and called for “light-touch regulation, not heavy-handed government” when it came to regulating the tech industry. Additionally, Walden represented a district in Oregon where Facebook did “a lot of business” and received big tax breaks for data centers. Slate pointed out the tax breaks as a potential conflict of interest when Walden led Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Like Walden, American Edge board member and Republican former Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez offered Facebook big economic incentives to build data centers in her state. As governor, Martinez announced that Facebook would expand its data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. Facebook entertained bids to build data centers in both New Mexico and Utah, but the company ultimately selected New Mexico after being offered tax breaks on billions of dollars in computer equipment and annual payments topping out at $500,000 instead of property taxes.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Like Walden, American Edge board member and Republican former Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez offered Facebook big economic incentives to build data centers in her state. As governor, Martinez announced that Facebook would expand its data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. Facebook entertained bids to build data centers in both New Mexico and Utah, but the company ultimately selected New Mexico after being offered tax breaks on billions of dollars in computer equipment and annual payments topping out at $500,000 instead of property taxes.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Other American Edge Advisory Board members with tech ties included Democratic former Rep. Chris Carney and Republican former Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Since leaving office, Carney has worked at the lobbying firm Nossaman LLP. In October 2019, Carney registered to lobby on behalf of NMR Consulting, an information technology company that partnered with Microsoft. Chambliss also had big tech ties. According to a 2014 Los Angeles Times report, “Tech execs who look more like old-school Fortune 500 barons are coming out of the closet, opening the checkbooks for old-fashioned GOP politicians such as ... Sen. Saxby Chambliss.” Additionally, while we don’t have information about Chambliss’s finances since he left office, he held stock in Apple per his most recent financial disclosure report filed in 2015.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>** Other American Edge Advisory Board members with tech ties included Democratic former Rep. Chris Carney and Republican former Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Since leaving office, Carney has worked at the lobbying firm Nossaman LLP. In October 2019, Carney registered to lobby on behalf of NMR Consulting, an information technology company that partnered with Microsoft. Chambliss also had big tech ties. According to a 2014 Los Angeles Times report, “Tech execs who look more like old-school Fortune 500 barons are coming out of the closet, opening the checkbooks for old-fashioned GOP politicians such as ... Sen. Saxby Chambliss.” Additionally, while we don’t have information about Chambliss’s finances since he left office, he held stock in Apple per his most recent financial disclosure report filed in 2015.</div></td></tr> </table>

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