$4 million for a company of it's size, with legislation that would directly effect its business always around doesn't seem that much <<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2012&indexType=s">https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?showYear=2012&indexType=s</a>><div>
<br></div><div>Not saying it's good, just that it doesn't seem large in the scheme of things.<br><br>Adam</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 3:26 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian<br>
<<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net">suresh@hserus.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> What does that compare to the cost that well funded NGOs spend on lobbying?<br>
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</div>I don't know, but 16 Million is .032 % of 50 Billion (what Google<br>
spent on "lobbying") vs last year's revenue.<br>
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