Why else should a Silicon Valley billionaire give 300k to someone running for attorney general in a Missouri? Is he just interested in justice being pursued in a small Midwestern state he doesn't live in, that he is neither from, nor studied in, nor has his major business interests in?
$300,000 is a sizable donation for someone running for attorney general in a low key state.
Also, I doubt that most Missourian voters care nearly as much about fighting Google as they care about jailing local criminals.
According to Forbes' estimates, Thiel is worth about $2.8 billion. Donating $300,000 for him is proportional to giving maybe $30 for a normal upper-middle class person.
I'm just saying, Thiel giving a small (for him) donation to some random AG doesn't necessarily mean he's particularly interested in that race.
I would guess he has given equal or larger donations to many other politicians and political action committees.
I agree, especially since he gave the same amount to every State AG in the country. He did, right?
he gave all what he could - sounds different from "gave a small (for him) donation" :)
This is true. It's also true that it's an utterly trivial amount of money to somebody like Peter Thiel.