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After Simon nodded slightly, girl a continued: "there is also a report on campaign funds. It is estimated that the campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year will reach $4 million, and the average campaign funds of the house of representatives will be about $500000 to $600000. Compared with 1992, it shows a double upward trend, which is very favorable for us."
Simon has also carefully sorted out the information in his mind about the 1994 mid-term elections these days.
In memory of the 1994 mid-term election, the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in decades is one of them. The most important point is that it highlights the role of money in political election.
Among them, two California Senate candidates, veteran democratic politician Diana Feinstein and energy tycoon Michael Huffington, have invested a total of $41 million in campaign funds in order to fight for a Senate seat, which is ten times of the average $4 million campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year. Only this $4 million is more than double the average campaign funding of less than $2 million for the 1992 Senate election.
In 1994, the amount of campaign funds for each representative was 600000 US dollars, which also doubled.
It is from 1994 that American political election has entered the era of money as king again. In order to get more campaign funds, members of both parties began to accelerate legislation to relax the restrictions on political campaign fund-raising.
This trend is obviously in Simon's favor. What he needs most now is money.
Seeing that Simon had no objection, girl a continued: "another thing, three of the seven Democratic candidates on our sniper list are also targeted by the National Rifle Association. Among the 16 Republican candidates, one is targeted by the rifle association, and their Democratic opponents also have three similar candidates. In short, we have four common targets with the rifle association and three targets for each other. The rifle association did this mainly because those people voted for the Brady bill last year. "
Brady act is a gun control act, the core of which is to set a waiting period to enforce criminal background checks on gun buyers.
There have been attempts by both parties in the United States for decades to push a similar bill, which was finally passed last year.
The passage of Brady's bill and another ban on offensive weapons introduced in the second half of this year in Simon's memory completely angered the powerful National Rifle Association, which played an important role in the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the 1994 mid-term election.
After 1994, the political influence of the National Rifle Association reached its peak, and both the White House and Congress avoided it. As a result, no politician dared to touch the gun control law for many years. Moreover, ten years later, the ban on offensive weapons expired. Even if public opinion fiercely demanded an indefinite extension of the ban, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, leading to the re entry of a variety of powerful offensive weapons into the market, and the frequency of shooting cases in the United States increased significantly.
Simon's "sniper plan" is actually imitating the operation of the National Rifle Association.
Although the National Rifle Association has accumulated profound information for hundreds of years, its economic strength is far inferior to the current westero system.
Therefore, through this "sniper plan", Simon hopes to achieve the same deterrent effect as the National Rifle Association after the 1994 mid-term election in his memory.
Thinking about this, Simon immediately thought of another thing.
Some members of Parliament who have been supported by the westero system may also be targeted by the NRA this year. In any case, the "basic set" of this part of westero system is even more important than the current "sniper plan", so we must ensure it.
Simon raised his head and was about to say something to girl A. after thinking about it, he said, "help me get Joseph."
When Larry Ellison left, it was already off-duty time on the west coast. On the east coast, it was eight o'clock in the evening, but Simon couldn't care much.
Girl a felt Simon's tone, nodded and turned to walk out.
A few minutes later, Joseph schrap got a call from Simon's office and said hello. He learned that the other party was at a reception at a senator's house in Washington. The other party was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of the core members of the political "basic disk" of the westero system.
After a brief chat, Simon and Snape talked about what they had just thought of.
Joseph schrap is also aware of this problem. Originally, he wanted to communicate with Simon in recent days. Since Simon talked about it at this time, they discussed some countermeasures on the phone.
The passage of a bill of Congress requires a majority vote.
The NRA, on the other hand, can't target all the members who voted for Brady and other gun control laws. Instead, it can select the typical ones like the westerlow system, which has a lot of room for operation.
Joseph schrap said that it is not difficult to take most of the "basic disks" of the westero system out of the NRA's target list. Of course, some games and exchanges are inevitable in this process. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it's just that both sides show their own skills in the election campaign.Simon didn't talk to each other much since Snape had a party. It was agreed that shrep would fly to the west coast on Sunday to talk about various recent issues. Simon said hello to a certain Senator by the way, and both parties hung up.
Continue to browse through the stack of documents in front of him. Simon wrote down some matters needing attention and sent them to Alison outside by email. He didn't get off work until after six o'clock.
Back at domay point manor, as soon as she entered the shell villa, Janet came up with a little girl in her arms, claiming that another child in the family would call her mother.
Today, Veronica, who has just returned from the east coast, leads Melbourne and Jennifer, who is holding little Nick, with surprise and surprise in her expression.
Simon was still puzzled. Janet had already raised a girl with a special pair of eyes in front of him and encouraged him to say, "SYL, call mom."
Seattle was held up by Janet and Simon looked at each other, blinked her beautiful blue eyes, seemed to be a little hesitant, or opened her mouth, with a very light voice to Simon called out a word: "Mom."
Simon:
Janet obviously didn't feel anything wrong. She was more excited than some kid's own mother and said, "look, I knew for a long time that SYL was a genius, better than Simon's vase."
Veronica next to Simon saw depressed appearance, the corner of her mouth has shown a smile.
The female assistant handed Nick over to the D girl next to him, took the baby from Janet with a smile, and said to Simon: "sear weeps very little. She's always quiet. I've been worried that she'll talk very late. In the afternoon, she gave it a try, and the baby cried out." she looked at her daughter in her arms, pointed to Simon and said, "sear, this is Dad, call dad."
For children who have just learned how to speak, it is more difficult for them to speak the word "Daddy" than "Mom".
However, the female assistant only taught him once. The little girl looked at Simon for a moment and then called out in a low voice. Her pronunciation was obviously not up to standard, but several adults on the scene could clearly tell that this was "Daddy.".
Janet also took over her second son from girl D and said, "baby, call Mom Well, it's OK to call dad. Oh, no dinner at night You are really not allowed to eat. "
Unfortunately, a little guy just looked at his mother blankly, probably feeling Janet's vicious "threat", and soon burst into tears.
Melbourne, who is always standing by Veronica's side with her little hand, can't help but hide from her side. She is worried that her mother won't let her eat.
Simon takes off his coat and hands it to aliya. He takes little nick from Janet's arms with a look of disappointment and coaxes him quietly. The whole family walks to the glass curtain wall of shell villa together and teaches Janet a lesson: "Nick is still young, so don't bother him."
Janet followed Simon and said, "SYL is very small, too."
The two kids were only three days away from being born, one on November 3 and the other on November 6. They are not five months old until now.
Seattle is special.
We found this soon after the birth of the little girl. The little child, who should have been naive and ignorant, always likes to look at everything around with a pair of beautiful eyes full of curiosity. Moreover, most of the time, he is very quiet. For a time, the female assistant suspected whether the child has hearing problems, so he had a special examination.
Of course the little guy is healthy.
The pediatrician in charge of examining children decided at that time that Seattle would be very smart in the future.
I just didn't expect that my daughter would call Mom and dad when she was only four months old.
As the father of three children, Simon has a lot of life experience. He knows very well that most children, even the smarter ones, need about eight months to make simple pronunciation. They usually begin to learn Mandarin after one year old.
Judging from her daughter's reaction, a little girl can not only call out her parents, but also know the meaning. Otherwise, she will not hesitate before she is encouraged by Janet to call Simon "Mom". This is even more rare. After all, most children even learn some simple language before one year old, they are only conditioned reflex after long-term guidance from their parents, and tend to be instinctive rather than autonomous.
At a certain moment, Simon even had the idea that his daughter might be the same as himself, but after careful consideration, he denied the idea. For one thing, there can be no such coincidence in the world. For another thing, in Simon's opinion, a little bit of everyday vision is more just a baby's pure curiosity about the world than an adult's sense of clarity.
Simon can be sure of that.
Everyone came to the sofa beside the curtain wall and sat down. In the evening, the whole family enjoyed the parent-child time against the backdrop of the fire clouds all over the sky and the sea.
After repeatedly teaching little Nick to talk, Janet once again discussed with the female assistant about changing the child, and doubted that Seattle was her own daughter. After all, she was so smart, Simon was so smart, and the child should be very smart. Why Melbourne and little Nick were so stupid, but the female assistant gave birth to a smart daughter.This is not reasonable!
Simon actually thinks so.
Both sons are healthy, so, according to some theories, they should be very smart indeed. In fact, Melbourne is also very smart. The little guy is less than two and a half years old now. Under the patient guidance of Veronica and the female assistant, he has learned a lot of words and speaks very fluently. On weekdays, he has a unique appearance in front of his "moody" mother.
It's a pity that compared with my sister, it's suddenly eclipsed.
As for Janet's argument, the female assistant retorts with a smile that she is also very smart, and it may be that genes are more in line with the father of the child, which gives birth to a little genius.
Ah, the big girl of Tongfang rebelled. How dare she be so rebellious.
This is provocative.
So the two women, who were both mothers, slapped each other with a smile until Simon himself "persuaded" them to fight. As a mediator, she was threatened by her assistant to sign an inequality treaty, promising not to go to San Francisco on business this weekend and to stay at home with her children.
The lights are beginning to shine.
Girl D came to remind us that dinner was ready. The family got up and went to the restaurant.
After dinner, the female assistant didn't go to the villa next door as usual. Since something happened last week, everyone lived in the shell villa, and Veronica didn't go to her East apartment either.
The three children are accompanied by Veronica, and Simon is nestled up on the sofa in the living room of the villa to watch TV, occasionally chatting in detail.
At ten o'clock, after seeing the children, they went up to the master bedroom on the third floor to have a rest.
For the three people, Janet doesn't care much, and always likes to take advantage of the female assistant. On the contrary, at first, she is not very used to it, but she soon gets used to it. Recently, she has a similar habit with Janet, and she likes to hold the man close to her in her sleep.
It's like Simon's going to disappear all of a sudden.
The assassination a few days ago, which did not pose any threat to the westrow family at all, was not without trace after all.
I originally planned to go to San Francisco at the weekend. Since I promised my female assistant yesterday, I didn't go there. I just discussed various affairs with several senior executives in Silicon Valley through video conference.
The main one is the cooperation negotiation between igritt and the Salzberg family behind the New York Times Group.
Last month, Joseph schrap conveyed the intention of reconciliation. Simon had a meeting with Arthur salisberg, the current head of the salisberg family. The two sides were quite happy, but Simon didn't immediately promise anything. He just let the senior executives of the New York Times Group and the team of igritte company negotiate and cooperate on their own.
Originally, the progress was quite smooth. Since the outbreak of the London Girl incident at the beginning of this month, coupled with another storm caused by Simon's personal wealth exceeding $200 billion, he probably felt that his importance had increased, and the negotiation team of the New York Times Group once again grasped it.
Simon's reply to Bezos was that he never wanted to be, or even harsher.
After the merger of the Boston Globe last year, the New York Times Group now owns 32 newspapers, 39 magazines, five local TV stations, two radio stations and other media subsidiaries in North America. Even Hollywood Reporter, one of the two most important media in Hollywood, is 33% owned by the New York Times Group.
If we are still in the pre Internet era, no one dares to provoke such a super media empire as the Hearst group, which can incite a war, and Simon will certainly try to make friends with it.
Now it's different.
Although igritte has always claimed that it is a media company, anyone with a clear eye knows that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional established media.
Even if the total number of users of all 32 newspapers in the New York Times Group is now added up, the scale can not be compared with that of igrit portal, which almost monopolizes the Internet access of 85 million Internet users in North America.
Yes, it's just that in the first quarter of 1994, the total number of Internet users in the United States increased by another 10 million compared with 75 million at the end of 1993. It is estimated that the total number of Internet users in North America will break through 100 million by the end of 1994.
In comparison, the total number of subscribers to all 32 newspapers of the New York Times Group is only about 9 million. Except for the million subscribers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe, most of their regional newspapers have only a few hundred thousand subscribers.
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After Simon nodded slightly, girl a continued: "there is also a report on campaign funds. It is estimated that the campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year will reach $4 million, and the average campaign funds of the house of representatives will be about $500000 to $600000. Compared with 1992, it shows a double upward trend, which is very favorable for us."
Simon has also carefully sorted out the information in his mind about the 1994 mid-term elections these days.
In memory of the 1994 mid-term election, the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in decades is one of them. The most important point is that it highlights the role of money in political election.
Among them, two California Senate candidates, veteran democratic politician Diana Feinstein and energy tycoon Michael Huffington, have invested a total of $41 million in campaign funds in order to fight for a Senate seat, which is ten times of the average $4 million campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year. Only this $4 million is more than double the average campaign funding of less than $2 million for the 1992 Senate election.
In 1994, the amount of campaign funds for each representative was 600000 US dollars, which also doubled.
It is from 1994 that American political election has entered the era of money as king again. In order to get more campaign funds, members of both parties began to accelerate legislation to relax the restrictions on political campaign fund-raising.
This trend is obviously in Simon's favor. What he needs most now is money.
Seeing that Simon had no objection, girl a continued: "another thing, three of the seven Democratic candidates on our sniper list are also targeted by the National Rifle Association. Among the 16 Republican candidates, one is targeted by the rifle association, and their Democratic opponents also have three similar candidates. In short, we have four common targets with the rifle association and three targets for each other. The rifle association did this mainly because those people voted for the Brady bill last year. "
Brady act is a gun control act, the core of which is to set a waiting period to enforce criminal background checks on gun buyers.
There have been attempts by both parties in the United States for decades to push a similar bill, which was finally passed last year.
The passage of Brady's bill and another ban on offensive weapons introduced in the second half of this year in Simon's memory completely angered the powerful National Rifle Association, which played an important role in the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the 1994 mid-term election.
After 1994, the political influence of the National Rifle Association reached its peak, and both the White House and Congress avoided it. As a result, no politician dared to touch the gun control law for many years. Moreover, ten years later, the ban on offensive weapons expired. Even if public opinion fiercely demanded an indefinite extension of the ban, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, leading to the re entry of a variety of powerful offensive weapons into the market, and the frequency of shooting cases in the United States increased significantly.
Simon's "sniper plan" is actually imitating the operation of the National Rifle Association.
Although the National Rifle Association has accumulated profound information for hundreds of years, its economic strength is far inferior to the current westero system.
Therefore, through this "sniper plan", Simon hopes to achieve the same deterrent effect as the National Rifle Association after the 1994 mid-term election in his memory.
Thinking about this, Simon immediately thought of another thing.
Some members of Parliament who have been supported by the westero system may also be targeted by the NRA this year. In any case, the "basic set" of this part of westero system is even more important than the current "sniper plan", so we must ensure it.
Simon raised his head and was about to say something to girl A. after thinking about it, he said, "help me get Joseph."
When Larry Ellison left, it was already off-duty time on the west coast. On the east coast, it was eight o'clock in the evening, but Simon couldn't care much.
Girl a felt Simon's tone, nodded and turned to walk out.
A few minutes later, Joseph schrap got a call from Simon's office and said hello. He learned that the other party was at a reception at a senator's house in Washington. The other party was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of the core members of the political "basic disk" of the westero system.
After a brief chat, Simon and Snape talked about what they had just thought of.
Joseph schrap is also aware of this problem. Originally, he wanted to communicate with Simon in recent days. Since Simon talked about it at this time, they discussed some countermeasures on the phone.
The passage of a bill of Congress requires a majority vote.
The NRA, on the other hand, can't target all the members who voted for Brady and other gun control laws. Instead, it can select the typical ones like the westerlow system, which has a lot of room for operation.
Joseph schrap said that it is not difficult to take most of the "basic disks" of the westero system out of the NRA's target list. Of course, some games and exchanges are inevitable in this process. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it's just that both sides show their own skills in the election campaign.Simon didn't talk to each other much since Snape had a party. It was agreed that shrep would fly to the west coast on Sunday to talk about various recent issues. Simon said hello to a certain Senator by the way, and both parties hung up.
Continue to browse through the stack of documents in front of him. Simon wrote down some matters needing attention and sent them to Alison outside by email. He didn't get off work until after six o'clock.
Back at domay point manor, as soon as she entered the shell villa, Janet came up with a little girl in her arms, claiming that another child in the family would call her mother.
Today, Veronica, who has just returned from the east coast, leads Melbourne and Jennifer, who is holding little Nick, with surprise and surprise in her expression.
Simon was still puzzled. Janet had already raised a girl with a special pair of eyes in front of him and encouraged him to say, "SYL, call mom."
Seattle was held up by Janet and Simon looked at each other, blinked her beautiful blue eyes, seemed to be a little hesitant, or opened her mouth, with a very light voice to Simon called out a word: "Mom."
Simon:
Janet obviously didn't feel anything wrong. She was more excited than some kid's own mother and said, "look, I knew for a long time that SYL was a genius, better than Simon's vase."
Veronica next to Simon saw depressed appearance, the corner of her mouth has shown a smile.
The female assistant handed Nick over to the D girl next to him, took the baby from Janet with a smile, and said to Simon: "sear weeps very little. She's always quiet. I've been worried that she'll talk very late. In the afternoon, she gave it a try, and the baby cried out." she looked at her daughter in her arms, pointed to Simon and said, "sear, this is Dad, call dad."
For children who have just learned how to speak, it is more difficult for them to speak the word "Daddy" than "Mom".
However, the female assistant only taught him once. The little girl looked at Simon for a moment and then called out in a low voice. Her pronunciation was obviously not up to standard, but several adults on the scene could clearly tell that this was "Daddy.".
Janet also took over her second son from girl D and said, "baby, call Mom Well, it's OK to call dad. Oh, no dinner at night You are really not allowed to eat. "
Unfortunately, a little guy just looked at his mother blankly, probably feeling Janet's vicious "threat", and soon burst into tears.
Melbourne, who is always standing by Veronica's side with her little hand, can't help but hide from her side. She is worried that her mother won't let her eat.
Simon takes off his coat and hands it to aliya. He takes little nick from Janet's arms with a look of disappointment and coaxes him quietly. The whole family walks to the glass curtain wall of shell villa together and teaches Janet a lesson: "Nick is still young, so don't bother him."
Janet followed Simon and said, "SYL is very small, too."
The two kids were only three days away from being born, one on November 3 and the other on November 6. They are not five months old until now.
Seattle is special.
We found this soon after the birth of the little girl. The little child, who should have been naive and ignorant, always likes to look at everything around with a pair of beautiful eyes full of curiosity. Moreover, most of the time, he is very quiet. For a time, the female assistant suspected whether the child has hearing problems, so he had a special examination.
Of course the little guy is healthy.
The pediatrician in charge of examining children decided at that time that Seattle would be very smart in the future.
I just didn't expect that my daughter would call Mom and dad when she was only four months old.
As the father of three children, Simon has a lot of life experience. He knows very well that most children, even the smarter ones, need about eight months to make simple pronunciation. They usually begin to learn Mandarin after one year old.
Judging from her daughter's reaction, a little girl can not only call out her parents, but also know the meaning. Otherwise, she will not hesitate before she is encouraged by Janet to call Simon "Mom". This is even more rare. After all, most children even learn some simple language before one year old, they are only conditioned reflex after long-term guidance from their parents, and tend to be instinctive rather than autonomous.
At a certain moment, Simon even had the idea that his daughter might be the same as himself, but after careful consideration, he denied the idea. For one thing, there can be no such coincidence in the world. For another thing, in Simon's opinion, a little bit of everyday vision is more just a baby's pure curiosity about the world than an adult's sense of clarity.
Simon can be sure of that.
Everyone came to the sofa beside the curtain wall and sat down. In the evening, the whole family enjoyed the parent-child time against the backdrop of the fire clouds all over the sky and the sea.
After repeatedly teaching little Nick to talk, Janet once again discussed with the female assistant about changing the child, and doubted that Seattle was her own daughter. After all, she was so smart, Simon was so smart, and the child should be very smart. Why Melbourne and little Nick were so stupid, but the female assistant gave birth to a smart daughter.This is not reasonable!
Simon actually thinks so.
Both sons are healthy, so, according to some theories, they should be very smart indeed. In fact, Melbourne is also very smart. The little guy is less than two and a half years old now. Under the patient guidance of Veronica and the female assistant, he has learned a lot of words and speaks very fluently. On weekdays, he has a unique appearance in front of his "moody" mother.
It's a pity that compared with my sister, it's suddenly eclipsed.
As for Janet's argument, the female assistant retorts with a smile that she is also very smart, and it may be that genes are more in line with the father of the child, which gives birth to a little genius.
Ah, the big girl of Tongfang rebelled. How dare she be so rebellious.
This is provocative.
So the two women, who were both mothers, slapped each other with a smile until Simon himself "persuaded" them to fight. As a mediator, she was threatened by her assistant to sign an inequality treaty, promising not to go to San Francisco on business this weekend and to stay at home with her children.
The lights are beginning to shine.
Girl D came to remind us that dinner was ready. The family got up and went to the restaurant.
After dinner, the female assistant didn't go to the villa next door as usual. Since something happened last week, everyone lived in the shell villa, and Veronica didn't go to her East apartment either.
The three children are accompanied by Veronica, and Simon is nestled up on the sofa in the living room of the villa to watch TV, occasionally chatting in detail.
At ten o'clock, after seeing the children, they went up to the master bedroom on the third floor to have a rest.
For the three people, Janet doesn't care much, and always likes to take advantage of the female assistant. On the contrary, at first, she is not very used to it, but she soon gets used to it. Recently, she has a similar habit with Janet, and she likes to hold the man close to her in her sleep.
It's like Simon's going to disappear all of a sudden.
The assassination a few days ago, which did not pose any threat to the westrow family at all, was not without trace after all.
I originally planned to go to San Francisco at the weekend. Since I promised my female assistant yesterday, I didn't go there. I just discussed various affairs with several senior executives in Silicon Valley through video conference.
The main one is the cooperation negotiation between igritt and the Salzberg family behind the New York Times Group.
Last month, Joseph schrap conveyed the intention of reconciliation. Simon had a meeting with Arthur salisberg, the current head of the salisberg family. The two sides were quite happy, but Simon didn't immediately promise anything. He just let the senior executives of the New York Times Group and the team of igritte company negotiate and cooperate on their own.
Originally, the progress was quite smooth. Since the outbreak of the London Girl incident at the beginning of this month, coupled with another storm caused by Simon's personal wealth exceeding $200 billion, he probably felt that his importance had increased, and the negotiation team of the New York Times Group once again grasped it.
Simon's reply to Bezos was that he never wanted to be, or even harsher.
After the merger of the Boston Globe last year, the New York Times Group now owns 32 newspapers, 39 magazines, five local TV stations, two radio stations and other media subsidiaries in North America. Even Hollywood Reporter, one of the two most important media in Hollywood, is 33% owned by the New York Times Group.
If we are still in the pre Internet era, no one dares to provoke such a super media empire as the Hearst group, which can incite a war, and Simon will certainly try to make friends with it.
Now it's different.
Although igritte has always claimed that it is a media company, anyone with a clear eye knows that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional established media.
Even if the total number of users of all 32 newspapers in the New York Times Group is now added up, the scale can not be compared with that of igrit portal, which almost monopolizes the Internet access of 85 million Internet users in North America.
Yes, it's just that in the first quarter of 1994, the total number of Internet users in the United States increased by another 10 million compared with 75 million at the end of 1993. It is estimated that the total number of Internet users in North America will break through 100 million by the end of 1994.
In comparison, the total number of subscribers to all 32 newspapers of the New York Times Group is only about 9 million. Except for the million subscribers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe, most of their regional newspapers have only a few hundred thousand subscribers.
After Simon nodded slightly, girl a continued: "there is also a report on campaign funds. It is estimated that the campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year will reach $4 million, and the average campaign funds of the house of representatives will be about $500000 to $600000. Compared with 1992, it shows a double upward trend, which is very favorable for us." Simon has also carefully sorted out the information in his mind about the 1994 mid-term elections these days. In memory of the 1994 mid-term election, the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in decades is one of them. The most important point is that it highlights the role of money in political election. Among them, two California Senate candidates, veteran democratic politician Diana Feinstein and energy tycoon Michael Huffington, have invested a total of $41 million in campaign funds in order to fight for a Senate seat, which is ten times of the average $4 million campaign funds of each Senate candidate this year. Only this $4 million is more than double the average campaign funding of less than $2 million for the 1992 Senate election. In 1994, the amount of campaign funds for each representative was 600000 US dollars, which also doubled. It is from 1994 that American political election has entered the era of money as king again. In order to get more campaign funds, members of both parties began to accelerate legislation to relax the restrictions on political campaign fund-raising. This trend is obviously in Simon's favor. What he needs most now is money. Seeing that Simon had no objection, girl a continued: "another thing, three of the seven Democratic candidates on our sniper list are also targeted by the National Rifle Association. Among the 16 Republican candidates, one is targeted by the rifle association, and their Democratic opponents also have three similar candidates. In short, we have four common targets with the rifle association and three targets for each other. The rifle association did this mainly because those people voted for the Brady bill last year. " Brady act is a gun control act, the core of which is to set a waiting period to enforce criminal background checks on gun buyers. There have been attempts by both parties in the United States for decades to push a similar bill, which was finally passed last year. The passage of Brady's bill and another ban on offensive weapons introduced in the second half of this year in Simon's memory completely angered the powerful National Rifle Association, which played an important role in the Democratic Party's disastrous defeat in the 1994 mid-term election. After 1994, the political influence of the National Rifle Association reached its peak, and both the White House and Congress avoided it. As a result, no politician dared to touch the gun control law for many years. Moreover, ten years later, the ban on offensive weapons expired. Even if public opinion fiercely demanded an indefinite extension of the ban, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, leading to the re entry of a variety of powerful offensive weapons into the market, and the frequency of shooting cases in the United States increased significantly. Simon's "sniper plan" is actually imitating the operation of the National Rifle Association. Although the National Rifle Association has accumulated profound information for hundreds of years, its economic strength is far inferior to the current westero system. Therefore, through this "sniper plan", Simon hopes to achieve the same deterrent effect as the National Rifle Association after the 1994 mid-term election in his memory. Thinking about this, Simon immediately thought of another thing. Some members of Parliament who have been supported by the westero system may also be targeted by the NRA this year. In any case, the "basic set" of this part of westero system is even more important than the current "sniper plan", so we must ensure it. Simon raised his head and was about to say something to girl A. after thinking about it, he said, "help me get Joseph." When Larry Ellison left, it was already off-duty time on the west coast. On the east coast, it was eight o'clock in the evening, but Simon couldn't care much. Girl a felt Simon's tone, nodded and turned to walk out. A few minutes later, Joseph schrap got a call from Simon's office and said hello. He learned that the other party was at a reception at a senator's house in Washington. The other party was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of the core members of the political "basic disk" of the westero system. After a brief chat, Simon and Snape talked about what they had just thought of. Joseph schrap is also aware of this problem. Originally, he wanted to communicate with Simon in recent days. Since Simon talked about it at this time, they discussed some countermeasures on the phone. The passage of a bill of Congress requires a majority vote. The NRA, on the other hand, can't target all the members who voted for Brady and other gun control laws. Instead, it can select the typical ones like the westerlow system, which has a lot of room for operation. Joseph schrap said that it is not difficult to take most of the "basic disks" of the westero system out of the NRA's target list. Of course, some games and exchanges are inevitable in this process. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it's just that both sides show their own skills in the election campaign.Simon didn't talk to each other much since Snape had a party. It was agreed that shrep would fly to the west coast on Sunday to talk about various recent issues. Simon said hello to a certain Senator by the way, and both parties hung up. Continue to browse through the stack of documents in front of him. Simon wrote down some matters needing attention and sent them to Alison outside by email. He didn't get off work until after six o'clock. Back at domay point manor, as soon as she entered the shell villa, Janet came up with a little girl in her arms, claiming that another child in the family would call her mother. Today, Veronica, who has just returned from the east coast, leads Melbourne and Jennifer, who is holding little Nick, with surprise and surprise in her expression. Simon was still puzzled. Janet had already raised a girl with a special pair of eyes in front of him and encouraged him to say, "SYL, call mom." Seattle was held up by Janet and Simon looked at each other, blinked her beautiful blue eyes, seemed to be a little hesitant, or opened her mouth, with a very light voice to Simon called out a word: "Mom." Simon: Janet obviously didn't feel anything wrong. She was more excited than some kid's own mother and said, "look, I knew for a long time that SYL was a genius, better than Simon's vase." Veronica next to Simon saw depressed appearance, the corner of her mouth has shown a smile. The female assistant handed Nick over to the D girl next to him, took the baby from Janet with a smile, and said to Simon: "sear weeps very little. She's always quiet. I've been worried that she'll talk very late. In the afternoon, she gave it a try, and the baby cried out." she looked at her daughter in her arms, pointed to Simon and said, "sear, this is Dad, call dad." For children who have just learned how to speak, it is more difficult for them to speak the word "Daddy" than "Mom". However, the female assistant only taught him once. The little girl looked at Simon for a moment and then called out in a low voice. Her pronunciation was obviously not up to standard, but several adults on the scene could clearly tell that this was "Daddy.". Janet also took over her second son from girl D and said, "baby, call Mom Well, it's OK to call dad. Oh, no dinner at night You are really not allowed to eat. " Unfortunately, a little guy just looked at his mother blankly, probably feeling Janet's vicious "threat", and soon burst into tears. Melbourne, who is always standing by Veronica's side with her little hand, can't help but hide from her side. She is worried that her mother won't let her eat. Simon takes off his coat and hands it to aliya. He takes little nick from Janet's arms with a look of disappointment and coaxes him quietly. The whole family walks to the glass curtain wall of shell villa together and teaches Janet a lesson: "Nick is still young, so don't bother him." Janet followed Simon and said, "SYL is very small, too." The two kids were only three days away from being born, one on November 3 and the other on November 6. They are not five months old until now. Seattle is special. We found this soon after the birth of the little girl. The little child, who should have been naive and ignorant, always likes to look at everything around with a pair of beautiful eyes full of curiosity. Moreover, most of the time, he is very quiet. For a time, the female assistant suspected whether the child has hearing problems, so he had a special examination. Of course the little guy is healthy. The pediatrician in charge of examining children decided at that time that Seattle would be very smart in the future. I just didn't expect that my daughter would call Mom and dad when she was only four months old. As the father of three children, Simon has a lot of life experience. He knows very well that most children, even the smarter ones, need about eight months to make simple pronunciation. They usually begin to learn Mandarin after one year old. Judging from her daughter's reaction, a little girl can not only call out her parents, but also know the meaning. Otherwise, she will not hesitate before she is encouraged by Janet to call Simon "Mom". This is even more rare. After all, most children even learn some simple language before one year old, they are only conditioned reflex after long-term guidance from their parents, and tend to be instinctive rather than autonomous. At a certain moment, Simon even had the idea that his daughter might be the same as himself, but after careful consideration, he denied the idea. For one thing, there can be no such coincidence in the world. For another thing, in Simon's opinion, a little bit of everyday vision is more just a baby's pure curiosity about the world than an adult's sense of clarity. Simon can be sure of that. Everyone came to the sofa beside the curtain wall and sat down. In the evening, the whole family enjoyed the parent-child time against the backdrop of the fire clouds all over the sky and the sea. After repeatedly teaching little Nick to talk, Janet once again discussed with the female assistant about changing the child, and doubted that Seattle was her own daughter. After all, she was so smart, Simon was so smart, and the child should be very smart. Why Melbourne and little Nick were so stupid, but the female assistant gave birth to a smart daughter.This is not reasonable! Simon actually thinks so. Both sons are healthy, so, according to some theories, they should be very smart indeed. In fact, Melbourne is also very smart. The little guy is less than two and a half years old now. Under the patient guidance of Veronica and the female assistant, he has learned a lot of words and speaks very fluently. On weekdays, he has a unique appearance in front of his "moody" mother. It's a pity that compared with my sister, it's suddenly eclipsed. As for Janet's argument, the female assistant retorts with a smile that she is also very smart, and it may be that genes are more in line with the father of the child, which gives birth to a little genius. Ah, the big girl of Tongfang rebelled. How dare she be so rebellious. This is provocative. So the two women, who were both mothers, slapped each other with a smile until Simon himself "persuaded" them to fight. As a mediator, she was threatened by her assistant to sign an inequality treaty, promising not to go to San Francisco on business this weekend and to stay at home with her children. The lights are beginning to shine. Girl D came to remind us that dinner was ready. The family got up and went to the restaurant. After dinner, the female assistant didn't go to the villa next door as usual. Since something happened last week, everyone lived in the shell villa, and Veronica didn't go to her East apartment either. The three children are accompanied by Veronica, and Simon is nestled up on the sofa in the living room of the villa to watch TV, occasionally chatting in detail. At ten o'clock, after seeing the children, they went up to the master bedroom on the third floor to have a rest. For the three people, Janet doesn't care much, and always likes to take advantage of the female assistant. On the contrary, at first, she is not very used to it, but she soon gets used to it. Recently, she has a similar habit with Janet, and she likes to hold the man close to her in her sleep. It's like Simon's going to disappear all of a sudden. The assassination a few days ago, which did not pose any threat to the westrow family at all, was not without trace after all. I originally planned to go to San Francisco at the weekend. Since I promised my female assistant yesterday, I didn't go there. I just discussed various affairs with several senior executives in Silicon Valley through video conference. The main one is the cooperation negotiation between igritt and the Salzberg family behind the New York Times Group. Last month, Joseph schrap conveyed the intention of reconciliation. Simon had a meeting with Arthur salisberg, the current head of the salisberg family. The two sides were quite happy, but Simon didn't immediately promise anything. He just let the senior executives of the New York Times Group and the team of igritte company negotiate and cooperate on their own. Originally, the progress was quite smooth. Since the outbreak of the London Girl incident at the beginning of this month, coupled with another storm caused by Simon's personal wealth exceeding $200 billion, he probably felt that his importance had increased, and the negotiation team of the New York Times Group once again grasped it. Simon's reply to Bezos was that he never wanted to be, or even harsher. After the merger of the Boston Globe last year, the New York Times Group now owns 32 newspapers, 39 magazines, five local TV stations, two radio stations and other media subsidiaries in North America. Even Hollywood Reporter, one of the two most important media in Hollywood, is 33% owned by the New York Times Group. If we are still in the pre Internet era, no one dares to provoke such a super media empire as the Hearst group, which can incite a war, and Simon will certainly try to make friends with it. Now it's different. Although igritte has always claimed that it is a media company, anyone with a clear eye knows that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional established media. Even if the total number of users of all 32 newspapers in the New York Times Group is now added up, the scale can not be compared with that of igrit portal, which almost monopolizes the Internet access of 85 million Internet users in North America. Yes, it's just that in the first quarter of 1994, the total number of Internet users in the United States increased by another 10 million compared with 75 million at the end of 1993. It is estimated that the total number of Internet users in North America will break through 100 million by the end of 1994. In comparison, the total number of subscribers to all 32 newspapers of the New York Times Group is only about 9 million. Except for the million subscribers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe, most of their regional newspapers have only a few hundred thousand subscribers.
