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Inundated with Hundreds of Identical Emails from Microsoft
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| 2. County executive Dow Constantine was
| inundated with hundreds of identical
| emails from Microsoft employees yesterday,
| imploring him to âuse your leadership to
| make sure the [520 bridge] project remains
| on track.â
|
| The text of the emails was copied and
| pasted from Microsoftâs new âLetâs Moveâ
| web site, part of a pricey new campaign by
| the Redmond company to defeat a proposal
| by Mayor Mike McGinn and House Speaker
| Frank Chopp (D-43) to revisit the idea of
| putting light rail or bus-rapid transit
| on the bridge.
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http://www.publicola.net/2010/02/25/inundated-with-hundreds-of-identical-emails-from-microsoft/
BoingBoing: House Bill Gives Microsoft Amnesty for Possible $1 Billion in Unpaid Taxes
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| That BoingBoing headline--"Broke-ass
| Washington state set to give MSFT $100M
| annual tax cut and amnesty for $1B in
| evasion"--should make the people (well,
| Jeff Reifman) at Microsoft Tax Dodge
| happy--they've been wondering where the
| Seattle Times has been on this issue. Who
| needs old media? BoingBoing is here.
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http://thesunbreak.com/2010/02/22/boingboing-house-bill-gives-microsoft-amnesty-for-possible-1-billion-in-unpaid-taxes
Itâs Time to Move Forward on the Highway 520 Bridge Replacement
http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2010/02/information-tech-it-s-time-to-move-forward-on-the-highway-520-bridg/
Mayor McGinn pokes Microsoft's CEO in the eye
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| In an astonishingly cheeky letter to
| Ballmer, McGinn granted no merit to
| Microsoft's position of wanting to adopt
| the current consensus plan for expanding
| 520; told Ballmer to "share my response
| with your employees"; and invited Ballmer
| to "discuss this important project in a
| town hall with you and fellow Microsoft
| employees on your campus in Redmond."
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http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19354/
Mayor Sends Letter To Microsoft Regarding 520 Bridge Plans
http://www.kirotv.com/news/22664192/detail.html
McGinn to Microsoft on 520: Walk the talk
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| State Sen. Ed Murray said it was like a
| "punch in the face," and Seattle Mayor
| Mike McGinn implied that Microsoft was
| being a hypocrite.
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/195540.asp
Microsoft Plays Hardball Over New 520 Floating Bridge
http://www.kirotv.com/news/22651650/detail.html
Seattle mayor wants town hall with Microsoft CEO
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011186368_apwamicrosoftfloatingbridge.html
Related:
Microsoft puppets spamming ANSI
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| An impressive list of spam comments asking for supporting OOXML and
| backward compatibility, claiming also that "Open XML in no way
| contradicts any other international document standard". No really?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-11857/microsoft-puppets-spamming-ansi
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| In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing
| when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing
| disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its
| antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans
| for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from
| deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
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