Google co-founder and president Sergey Brin this week donated $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign, while co-founder Larry Page added a $40,000 donation, a Mercury News analysis of state campaign finance records show. With the contribution, Brin matches talk show host Ellen DeGeneres for the largest individual donation during the campaign's final weeks to oppose a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.
Google did not respond to initial requests for comment Thursday on the donations by Brin and Page, but the Mountain View Internet search giant is one of a very few Silicon Valley corporations officially on record opposing Prop. 8.
"While there are many objections to this proposition — further government encroachment on personal lives, ambiguously written text — it is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8," Brin wrote in an item he posted Sept. 26 on the official Google blog. "While we respect the strongly held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality."
The six-figure donations by DeGeneres and Brin were among a group of large donations from celebrities and other prominent figures that recently have flowed
into Equality California, the lead organization battling Prop. 8. Marin County resident and "Indiana Jones" filmmaker George Lucas gave $50,000, while Lucasfilm donated an additional $50,000, both this week.
Actor T.R. Knight of "Grey's Anatomy" gave two $50,000 donations, while Monica Rosenthal, an actress in the comedy series "Everybody Loves Raymond" and the wife of series writer and executive producer Phil Rosenthal, gave $25,000.
Those large donations are among $9.2 million in large donations received by Equality California
(www.noonprop8.com ) since Oct. 6, when the dueling Prop. 8 campaigns last filed their extensive fundraising reports, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State.
ProtectMarriage.com, the lead political organization supporting a ban on same-sex marriage, has raised about $1.7 million in large donations since Oct. 6, state records show.
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NO on 8. It is despicable to preach hate and divisiveness we don't need it.
The Mormon Church is spending millions to control the outcome of this proposition. I do not need Mormons telling our state how to treat its citizens. Why are they so concerned. If they do not wish to be inclusive of gays so be it but leave the folks alone!
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- MeganMcKenzie
- 1 year ago
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i've torn down hundreds of yes on 8 signs in my neighborhood, but the tenacious bastards keep at it
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Yay google.
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nice...
so i yelled out "NO ON PROP 8" to a group of people at two corners on the street that held YES on 8 signs...and one of them said some hateful things... but its all about freedom of speech...and all i did was say NO on 8 aloud and i didnt attack them
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Proposition 8 will pass and I will leave Google
Most google customers in the world are for protecting marriage.
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Google this: No on 8. Then donate!
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Freedom of speech yeah. I heard of someone being beaten after putting up a sign. I do not know if it is rumor or fact.
I am painting a large NO on 8 sign tomorrow and installing it in my yard. Civil rights for all not for a few
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- MeganMcKenzie
- 1 year ago
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Yes a yes on 8 supporter was beaten and thousands and thousands of yes on 8 signs were stolen
Someone is trying to steal marriage like they steal signs and make it something else by violating the civil rights of everybody
What is new !!!
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Oh God soleil, I guess you only come back after people have forgotten who you are and how badly your arguments have been defeated.
How typical of a conservative.
Go away you bigot.
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How is it any of anybody's business? What makes the conservatives think that they should tell everyone what to do?
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- FallenMorgan
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They can do what they want.
I can do the same, what is the problem ?
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I Googled "nice!" and got back Google!
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- ninepounds6
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Thank you Google!!! STOP THE HATE NO ON 8!!!
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