Tim Cook included in early list of potential VP candidates for Clinton campaign
In one of the WikiLeaks-published Podesta emails allegedly detailing the inner workings of of the Hillary Clinton election campaign, Apple CEO Tim Cook was mentioned as an early possibility for Vice President and was included in a list with Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Michael Bloomberg.
The email was allegedly sent by Clinton staffer John Podesta as a first draft of potential, and un-vetted, vice presidential candidates. At the time of the email, said to be March 17, 2016, the campaign claimed to be "prepared to execute non-disclosure agreements with anyone we involve."
Other potential candidates from big business and tech include GM CEO Mary Barra, Michael Bloomberg, chairman and CEO of Xerox Ursula Burns, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, CEO of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent, president of The Rockefeller Foundation Judith Rodin, and CEO and Chairman of Starbucks Howard Schultz. The vast majority of candidates suggested to Clinton were political figures, however.
In the same released batch of e-mails, Cook was criticized for his lack of political acumen when dealing with the U.S. government regarding the San Bernardino iPhone 5c encryption issue.
Cook has held fundraising events for both the Clinton election campaign, as well as one for Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
The leaked e-mails do not include a response or a follow-up for the candidate listing at this time, revealing any thought process leading up to the ultimate selection. It is not clear if Cook was ever approached for the job, but given the sheer number of possibilities listed in the e-mail, he was probably not.
Early Tuesday morning, The WikiLeaks organization published nearly 2000 more emails, bringing the total up to 17,150. The group claims to have around another 33,000 emails to release.
The email was allegedly sent by Clinton staffer John Podesta as a first draft of potential, and un-vetted, vice presidential candidates. At the time of the email, said to be March 17, 2016, the campaign claimed to be "prepared to execute non-disclosure agreements with anyone we involve."
Other potential candidates from big business and tech include GM CEO Mary Barra, Michael Bloomberg, chairman and CEO of Xerox Ursula Burns, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, CEO of Coca-Cola Muhtar Kent, president of The Rockefeller Foundation Judith Rodin, and CEO and Chairman of Starbucks Howard Schultz. The vast majority of candidates suggested to Clinton were political figures, however.
In the same released batch of e-mails, Cook was criticized for his lack of political acumen when dealing with the U.S. government regarding the San Bernardino iPhone 5c encryption issue.
Cook has held fundraising events for both the Clinton election campaign, as well as one for Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan.
The leaked e-mails do not include a response or a follow-up for the candidate listing at this time, revealing any thought process leading up to the ultimate selection. It is not clear if Cook was ever approached for the job, but given the sheer number of possibilities listed in the e-mail, he was probably not.
Early Tuesday morning, The WikiLeaks organization published nearly 2000 more emails, bringing the total up to 17,150. The group claims to have around another 33,000 emails to release.
Comments
Oh come on.
1. Makes no sense at all. You could double or triple the price of AAPL and the number of additional iPhones, iPads, and Macs would barely budget due to this wealth effect.
2. Retain talent. Yeah, ok. But I haven't seen a huge brain drain from Apple. And when interesting people leave it's almost always to work on a more interesting project. Money isn't the prime motivators for the superstars.
3. Who cares about public relations related to the stock price (except people who care about the stock price)? Do you know of anyone who hasn't bought an Apple product because the AAPL share price or P:E: ratio wasn't as high as it could be?
4. Right, because the unfathomably large stockpile of CASH that Apple keeps running out because of all the big companies Apple snaps up?
I get the stock price is important to shareholders (an embarrassing large proportion of my investments are in AAPL, so I'm one myself), but to argue that it's critical to Apple Inc. is off the mark.
On more local fronts, Governors and Mayors can't get much done because so much of their budgets go to paying pensions. And it's difficult to change the way public employees do their jobs.
No one in their rights minds would want most political jobs these days and so we get people who aren't in their right minds. And of course, at least as compared to major industry, the pay sucks, although Tim and people like him don't have money concerns. And you say, the VP isn't much of a job anyway, even if Clinton-Gore did have a semblance of a co-presidency and so did Bush-Cheney (some would argue that Cheney was really the President).
What are you...20 years old in your 1st semester of economics?
They'd be like orange juice and toothpaste together.
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