{"id":252,"date":"2018-02-13T03:11:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2018-02-13T03:11:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T11:11:47","slug":"air-bnb-and-tech-giants-deluge-newsom-with-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Air BnB and tech giants deluge Newsom with donations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<em> San Jose Mercury News<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/04\/10\/guess-which-startup-is-backing-gavin-newsoms-run-for-governor\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Other big supporters of Newsom include employees at the San Francisco private equity firm Tao Capital Partners, which has given $209,200 to the lieutenant governor, and the Wonderful Company, a Los Angeles-based holding company, which has donated $112,900. Other major boosters include workers at San Francisco companies such as cloud-computing giant Salesforce ($86,400) and Twitter ($84,800).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">and<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The company declined to comment on the \u00a0donations, which included maximum individual amounts of $56,400 contributed by Brian Chesky, the company\u2019s chief executive; Laurence Tosi, Airbnb chief financial officer; and Stephen Conley, Head of Global Hospitality &amp; Strategy. Newsom also received\u00a0$56,400 from co-founder Joe Gebbia, and\u00a0$250 from Laura Spanjian, Public Policy Director.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Capitol One Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capradio.org\/articles\/2018\/02\/01\/latest-california-governor-campaign-fundraising-reports-are-out-and-gavin-newsom-is-lapping-the-field\/\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Newsom reported raising $4.6 million in the last half of 2017. Combined with money he raised earlier \u2014 including funds left over from his 2014 campaign for lieutenant governor \u2014 he has $19.5 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Mercury News reports: Other big supporters of Newsom include employees at the San Francisco private equity firm Tao Capital Partners, which has given $209,200 to the lieutenant governor, and the Wonderful Company, a Los Angeles-based holding company, which has donated $112,900. Other major boosters include workers at San Francisco companies such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,63,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-bnb","category-google","category-neoliberalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}