Obama sucks up to AeA

Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:14 AM

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The Obama campaign goes to great lengths to spread the myth that all of his
campaign funding is generated by small donations from the little people.
Check this load of BS, direct from his website:

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/standard?source=homedropdow
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This campaign is about building a different kind of politics.
We don't take money from Washington lobbyists or special-interest
political action committees. Instead, our broad base of
individual donors ensures that this campaign answers to no one but
the people.

So, where is his money really coming from? Well, for starters, it appears that
senior staff from the Obama campaign are diving for dollars with the high-tech
robber barons at the AeA; who say on their mission statement that they engage
in "State, Federal & International Lobbying". While you are visiting their
website, be sure and check out the powerful high-tech multi-national
corporations that AeA represents.

http://www.aeanet.org/AboutAeA/AeAMissionStatement.asp

I have written numerous newsletters about the role that the AeA has played in
lobbying in favor of H-1B and more outsourcing so this newsletter won't
belabor the point here. You can search the archives for AeA if you are an H-1B
history buff.

The important thing to know is that the Obama campaign is getting very cozy
with the AeA, and that's a very disturbing but not surprising trend. All of
this means that we can expect Obama to coninue to support guest worker visas
like H-1B, mass immigration of cheap laborers, and the expansion of free trade
agreements.

Don't rush out to vote for McCain though!

It looks like the AeA is about to put their hooks into him also. McCain has
already been bought off by big Silicon Valley businesses (see newsletter
"McCain welcomed in Silicon Valley but flops in Phoenix", No. 1871 --
5/28/2008) but that's unlikely to stop the AeA from getting their own piece of
McCain.

Be sure to read the last paragraph of the article below for the AeA take on
McCain.

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http://www.aeanet.org/events/gadd_obamaStaffCompetitiveness.asp

Sen. Obama's Top Aides at AeA
As part of AeA s continuing outreach to the campaigns of presidential
candidates, senior staff to Sen. Barack Obama met with over 70 executives from
the high-tech industry, US universities, and technology professional societies
to discuss Sen. Obama s positions on innovation and competitiveness. The
meeting this week at AeA s David Packard Conference Center in Washington, DC,
included Pete Rouse, Chief of Staff, and Karen Kornbluh, Policy Director. The
meeting was conducted in partnership with the Task Force on the Future of
American Innovation, which is co-chaired by AeA and Intel Corporation.

After Mr. Rouse and Ms. Kornbluh outlined Sen. Obama s competitiveness agenda,
industry representatives stressed key competitiveness points
including:

The importance of improved math and science education at both elementary
school and university levels The need to increase spending on government-
funded basic research and development The urgency of reforming the county s
policies on H-1B visas and green cards The need to make permanent the R&D tax
credit The importance of addressing increased health care costs for US
companies, making them less competitive in the global market

At the conclusion of the meeting, the Obama advisors expressed a desire to
follow-up on this meeting to get more specifics on the policy agenda "that
will work to improve the US economy and our global competitiveness."
Representatives from AeA in Washington, DC, are flying to Chicago next week to
continue these discussions and AeA will host a smaller group of high-tech
industry representatives for a meeting in Washington in early August to
present a more detailed agenda to the campaign staff.

AeA President Chris Hansen offered his assistance to arrange meetings with
company CEOs around the country and Obama advisors in order to gain a broader
context for the high-tech policy agenda. AeA has made the same offer to Sen.
McCain s campaign.

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