Meanwhile, Koch Industries counsels tens of thousands of employees at its Georgia Pacific subsidiary on what candidates they should vote for to protect their jobs.
(1) Any payment consisting of a contribution, expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication that is made by the entity, its officers or directors, or any of its affiliates or subsidiaries to a candidate for election for Federal office or to a political committee, or that is otherwise made with respect to any election for Federal office.
(A News Corporation subsidiary also contributed to candidates).
Several Democratic sources confirmed a document being circulated by the administration would require government contractors to disclose campaign contributions made by directors, officers, affiliates or subsidiaries to federal candidates, political party committees and "third party entities" involved in electioneering.
News Corp. PR is leaking to their subsidiary press outlets that Owen Van Natta is the prime candidate, but at least a couple of other people are still supposedly in the running.
A Russia Today subsidiary described her as Poland's most beautiful presidential candidate in a widely circulated clip, while GQ magazine said she "might be our new favourite world leader".
CNN and Google subsidiary YouTube are also planning to collaborate in a Republican candidates' debate in November.
The most likely candidate, according to sources close to the companies, is HearMe hear subsidiary Mplayer, based in Mountain View, Calif.
The presidential candidate wrote a similar letter to the head of Tesco's U.S. subsidiary Fresh & Easy, Tim Mason, back in November 2007; his request went unheeded.
But the most likely candidates are the blockbuster products sold by Roche and its Genentech subsidiary — Herceptin for breast cancer, Rituxan for lymphomas and Avastin for various cancers.
