Amazon.com's Latest Product Category: Politicians

[joeunderdog]

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Shoppers at online retailer Amazon.com Inc. can now spend money on something new -- U.S. presidential candidates.

A new feature that debuted Friday collects campaign contributions of up to $200 for U.S. presidential candidates.

The Seattle, Washington-based retailer, which claims 37 million active accounts, said on its Web site that it is "trying to take the friction out of grassroots contributions to presidential candidates."

For that reason, Amazon said it is not endorsing any candidates and is charging each campaign its usual processing fees for the payments, which it will donate to a non-profit, non-partisan civil group.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040124/tc_nm/campaign_amazon_dc
Anyone know what "civil group" is gettting the money? Heritage Foundation?

[NashVegas]

1. Interesting, But NO Way I'm Using It

Amazon knows my shopping Demographics well enough already, they don't need to know where my wallet goes politically (if they can't figure it out from what I buy, fuck 'em).

[question everything]

2. Al Franken on David Letterman yesterday

Said that one "reviewer" of his book on Amazon said that writing such a book leads the death of the writer's mother.

And 8 of 38 found this "review" helpful. These are your right wingers, said Franken.