Organized employee campaigning could escalate this episode to a pressing issue demanding Amazon's attention.
The latest, "Facing the Music" (2001), about student and employee campaigns at Sydney University to defend the music faculty against being dismantled by financial cutbacks, received its premiere at the Sydney Film Festival in June on the day after Ms. Anderson's illness had been diagnosed as fatal.
Mr. Donovan has received $50,000 from Mr. Singer; $50,000 from Mr. Singer's son, Gordon, who works at the firm; and donations of $50,000 each from two other employees, and from the spouse of one of those employees, campaign finance documents show.
One after another, friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives, mentors, employees, campaign advisers, cops, teachers and even priests step forward to grind axes, blanch at the prospect of a Palin presidency and, armed with anecdotes, outline why they think Palin is, variously, "dangerous", a "sociopath" and "disrespectful to intelligence".
Huang eventually pleaded guilty to conspiring to reimburse Lippo Group employees' campaign contributions with corporate or foreign funds.
Disgruntled employees campaigned against Mr. Romney in 1994 when he ran unsuccessfully for a Senate seat in Massachusetts.
Once a year, businesses host an employee giving campaign or organize a company-wide gift drive for the local community.
Connecticut's Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities tried to drop the Scouts from its employee contribution campaign, but the Scouts sued and won.
Brokaw was completing work on a humorous employee recruitment campaign when "news came through of the merger," Mr. Brokaw said, and it has served as additional grist for the campaign's mill.
On defense you face industry lobbyists, civil libertarians, investigative gadflies, pork-barrel politicians, employee unions, campaign consultants, tort lawyers, budget police, bureaucratic red tape, the Bill of Rights and the laws of physics.
Mr. Silvester has been in prison since January 2002, after a judge revoked his bail for secretly meeting Ms. Thiesfield, who had been his employee and campaign manager, several times after his conviction, despite a court order not to contact her.
