Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist who helped bankroll TPM, donates to Romney super PAC

[Judi Lynn]

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist who helped bankroll TPM, donates to Romney super PAC
By Dylan Stableford | The Ticket – 19 mins ago

Among the 150-plus major donors disclosed by Restore Our Future, a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney: Marc Andreessen, the Netscape co-founder who's become one of the biggest venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. His firm, Andreessen Horowitz, manages more than $2.7 billion, including a $1.5 billion round of funding that was announced earlier this week. (The firm has investments in a slew of tech start-ups, including Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter.)

According to Restore Our Future's most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, Andreessen donated $50,000 the group, adding to $30.2 million the group raised through Dec. 31. The PAC has spent more than $17 million on the 2012 campaign to date--and more than $16 million attacking Newt Gingrich.

Andreessen's contribution to Restore Our Future was scant in comparison to the multi-million dollar donations made by other private equity and hedge fund executives--including John Paulson, founder of Paulson & Company, and Ed Conard, former top executive at Bain Capital. (Sam Zell, the chairman and former chief executive of the bankrupt Tribune Company, donated $50,000 to Restore Our Future, too.)

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In 2009, Andreessen personally invested in Talking Points Memo, the liberal political site founded by Josh Marshall. Andreessen, who is a member of Facebook's board of directors, also contributed to the FB PAC launched by the social network last year.

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/marc-andreessen-venture-capitalist-helped-bankroll-tpm-donates-222324769.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Sigh!

[Thrill]

2. All Mittens Wealthy Pals are chipping in

They'll spend whatever it takes

[KansDem]

3. Could it be he thinks Newt has better chance against the POTUS?

And therefore he "donates" to Mitt in hopes he'll get the nod?

[Ian David]

4. If Willard gets the nomination, remember to use this as proof he is a Secret Liberal.

Until then, Talking Points Memo is dead to me.

[reACTIONary]

5. I used to visit TPM regularly, but I noticed...

...that when I did, my browser would regularly "lock up" and my hard-drive would start cranking away for what seemed like a minute or so. Probably no more than 30 seconds, but it was frustrating and I was worried about what might be going on. This happened at work, also, and we have some pretty aggressive security measures in effect there.

So I just quite visiting the site. I've often wondered if others had the same experience.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. I don't know what browser you are using,

but I have visited the site since it started with IE, Firefox, Opera, Maxthon and Chrome, and never had a single problem. Nor have I ever found the site to be anything other than true-blue, bare-knuckled liberal.

I don't know what Andreesen's malfunction is, but TPM is one of the most reliable news sites on the web.

[reACTIONary]

9. Thanks (nm)

[HughBeaumont]

8. Andreessen has always been a Free Traitor, job outsourcer bastard.

Also takes the usual Republican canard of blaming "education" and US workers for the United States' unemployment problems.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html

Secondly, many people in the U.S. and around the world lack the education and skills required to participate in the great new companies coming out of the software revolution. This is a tragedy since every company I work with is absolutely starved for talent. Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high. This problem is even worse than it looks because many workers in existing industries will be stranded on the wrong side of software-based disruption and may never be able to work in their fields again. There's no way through this problem other than education, and we have a long way to go.

He cannot be THIS stupid and insult our intelligence THIS much that we'd actually believe this bullshit. Or can he?