Billionaire Thomas Siebel drops $500K into Prop 32, anti-union initiative

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http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2012/07/09/billionaire-thomas-siebel-drops-500k-into-anti-union-initiative/

Douche.

And don’t look now, but the big money is starting to roll in: Thomas Siebel, the billionaire founder of Siebel Systems, just dropped $500,000 on the pro-side. That’s pocket lint for Siebel, who is worth $1.8 biiiiiiiiiiiiiiillllion, after he sold his company to Oracle for $5.9 billion in 2005.

Politically, Siebel may own the crown for Best Political Rally Intro Ever with his 2008 flourish for GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin. Or, as he referred to her: “The embodiment of pure, unadulterted good.” Really. (Personally, I’d save that intro for folks like, oh, my Mom or Mother Teresa, but to each his own.)

As Comrade Marinucci told us back then — October 2008 — here’s how Siebel introduced Palin:

“Sarah Palin represents the best in each and every one of us,” he told the crowd, calling her ”an optimist, thoughtful, energetic, engaging … the embodiment of pure, unadulterated good.”

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”Sarah Palin has risen as if from some mythical kingdom of the north. She carries the flag of outrage for the rest of us: the employers who create jobs, the shareholders, the parents, the people who raise children … and the students, the future of America,” he said. ”Sarah Palin carries the flag of outrage for each of us … who cries out, ‘We’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore.”

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1. Only 50,000 of us need to chip in 10 bucks.

How hard can that be?