Despite John Chambers being a Republican and a prominent back of John McCain, Cisco gave three times as much ($30,000) to Democratic congressional campaign committees as it did to GOP committees previously, according to SiliconValley.com.
The Web site is reporting that the high-tech and venture capital companies are “now contributing heavily to the Democrats … after years of favoring congressional Republicans.”
Chambers is a friend of the Republicans. Earlier this year he was tapped by McCain to serve as the national co-chair and economic and technology adviser of his presidential exploratory committee, and helped Condoleezza Rice pen an opinion piece about Lebanon which was turned down by numerous publications.
Why is tech backing the Democrats?
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