Google Is A Tourist In D.C., Brin Finds
Posted on June 7, 2006
Filed Under Companies, Public Policy |
What did he think, that he would just show up and members of Congress would meet with him? Maybe Google (and Eric Schmidt in particular) should spread their political contributions around to both parties instead of just Democrats is they want to be heard in the halls of Congress. Of course, according to the Post article Brin couldn’t get meetings with big name Democrats either.
Google Is A Tourist In D.C., Brin Finds: Dressed in blue jeans, silver mesh sneakers and a black T-shirt and jacket, Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin came to Washington yesterday to lobby members of Congress and found it was a little harder than he had hoped it would be to get meetings.
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