Hollywood Hunter

After Simon nodded slightly, Girl A continued: "There is also a report on campaign funding. It is estimated that each senator's campaign funding this year will reach 4 million U.S. dollars, and the average campaign funding of the House of Representatives is about 500,000 to 600,000. The U.S. dollar has shown a doubling trend compared to 1992, which is very beneficial to us."

Simon these days also carefully sorted out the information in his mind about the 1994 midterm elections.

In the 1994 midterm elections in my memory, the Democratic Party’s unsuccessful defeat in decades is one of them, and the most important point is to highlight the role of money in political campaigns.

Among them, two California senator candidates, veteran Democratic politician Diana Feinstein and energy tycoon Michael Huffington, in order to compete for a senator seat, invested a total of 41 million US dollars in campaign funds, which is equivalent to an average of each year. Senate candidates are about ten times the campaign funding of about $4 million. And just this $4 million is equivalent to more than double the average campaign funding of less than $2 million in the 1992 Senate election.

In 1994, the average amount of campaign funding for each member of the House of Representatives was 600,000 US dollars, which also doubled.

It was from 1994 that American political elections re-entered the era of money as king. In order to obtain more campaign funds, congressmen from both parties began to push for the relaxation of political campaign fundraising restrictions.

This phenomenon is most beneficial to Simon, and what he lacks most now is money.

Seeing that Simon did not respond, Girl A continued: "There is another thing. Three of the seven Democratic candidates in our sniper list are also targeted by the National Rifle Association. There are 16 Republican candidates, and one is in the rifle. Among the association’s targets, their Democratic opponents also have similar 3 people. Simply put, we and the Rifle Association have 4 common goals and 3 mutual targets. The Rifle Association did this mainly because of those people last year. Vote for the Brady Act."

The Brady Act is a gun control bill. The core clause is to set a waiting period to force criminal background checks on gun buyers.

The two parties in the United States have been trying to promote similar bills for decades, and they were not finally passed until last year.

The passage of the Brady Act and the assault weapons ban introduced in the second half of this year in Simon's memory completely angered the National Rifle Association. The Democratic Party's fiasco in the 1994 midterm elections was also inseparable from the operation of the Rifle Association.

After 1994, the political influence of the National Rifle Association reached its peak. Neither the White House nor Congress avoided it. As a result, no politician dared to engage in accusations against gun laws for many years. Not only that, the ban on offensive weapons expired ten years later. Even if public opinion aggressively asked for an indefinite extension of the ban, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, leading to the re-entry of a variety of powerful offensive weapons into the market and the frequency of US shootings Then it increased substantially.

Simon's "sniper plan" is actually imitating the operation of the National Rifle Association.

Although the National Rifle Association has accumulated a profound foundation for hundreds of years, its economic strength is far inferior to the current Westeros system.

Therefore, through this ‘sniper plan’, Simon hopes to achieve a deterrent effect similar to that of the National Rifle Association after the 1994 midterm elections.

Thinking of this, Simon immediately thought of another thing.

The parliamentarian forces that have been fostered by the Westeros system may also be targeted by the National Rifle Association this year. In any case, the "basic disk" of this part of the Westeros system is even more important than the current "sniper plan". , So it must be ensured.

Simon raised his head and was about to say something to Girl A. He thought about it and said, "Help me pick up Joseph."

When Larry Ellison just left, it was already off work time on the West Coast, and it was eight o'clock in the evening on the East Coast, but Simon couldn't care much.

Girl A felt Simon's tone, nodded and walked out.

A few minutes later, Joseph Schrapp received a call from Simon’s office landline and greeted him. He learned that the other party was at a reception at a senator’s house in Washington. The other party was a member of the Senator’s Judiciary Committee, West. One of the core members of the Luo system's political "basic disk".

After a few brief conversations, Simon and Schrapp talked about what he had just thought of.

Joseph Schrapp was actually aware of this problem, and originally wanted to communicate with Simon in the past few days. Since Simon was talking about it at this time, the two discussed roughly on the phone about countermeasures.

To pass a bill of Congress, more than half of the congressmen must vote.

The National Rifle Association is unlikely to target all members who voted for the Brady Act and other gun control laws. Instead, it selects typical models like the Westeros system, which has a lot of room for operation.

Therefore, Schrapp said that it is not difficult to extract most of the "basic disk" of the Westeros system from the target list of the National Rifle Association. Of course, this process will certainly not avoid some games and exchanges. Even if they can't be picked out in the end, the two sides will show their magic in the election.

Since Schlapp is still socializing, Simon did not chat with each other much. It was agreed that Schrapp would fly to the West Coast on Sunday to discuss various recent issues. Simon and a certain senator greeted him by the way, and both sides hung up the phone.

Simon continued to browse through the stack of documents in front of him, jot down some handling matters and forwarded them to Alison outside by mail, until the time passed at six o'clock before leaving get off work.

Returning to Cape Dumei Manor, just after entering the door of Shell Villa, Janet greeted her with a little bit and claimed that another child in the family would call her mother.

Veronica, who had just returned from the east coast today, led Melbourne and Jennifer, who was holding Nicky, also followed, with surprises and surprises in her expression.

Simon was still a little bit puzzled. Janet had already raised a little girl with a pair of special eyes to Simon, and urged, "Sill, call her mother."

Seattle was sitting in Janet’s arms facing Simon, blinking her beautiful blue eyes, seeming to hesitate a little, then opened her mouth and called out a word to Simon in a very soft voice: "Mom."

Simon: "..."

Janet obviously didn't feel anything wrong, and she was more excited than a certain little guy's mother: "Look, I knew it a long time ago, Sil is a genius, better than the little vases Simon raised."

Veronica saw Simon's gloomy appearance and smiled at the corner of her mouth.

The female assistant handed Nick to the girl D next to her, smiled and went forward to take the child from Janet, while saying to Simon: "Sylva seldom cries on weekdays and is always quiet. I have always worried that she will speak It's late, I tried it casually in the afternoon, and the baby called out," he looked at the daughter in his arms, pointed to Simon and said, "Sill, this is Dad, call Dad."

For children who are just learning Chinese, the word ‘Daddy’ is actually a little harder than ‘Mom’.

However, the female assistant only taught it once. The little girl looked at Simon for a moment and then yelled out softly. The pronunciation was obviously not standard enough, but several adults present could clearly distinguish that this was ‘Daddy’.

Janet also took her second son from Girl D at this time, doing the same thing: "Baby, call mom... well, you can call dad, hurry up, don't tell you not to eat at night... You are really not allowed to eat. Yeah."

It's a pity that a little guy just looked at Janet with a blank face, probably feeling the vicious threat from Janet, and soon cried out.

Seeing this in Melbourne, who was always cleverly held by her little hand beside Veronica, her little body couldn't help hiding from the side, obviously worried that her mother would not let herself eat.

Simon took off his coat and handed it to Aaliyah. He took Nick from the disappointed-looking Janet, and led the family to the glass curtain wall of Shell Villa, while teaching Janet: "Nick is still young, don't toss. Him."

Janet dissatisfied: "Sill is also very young."

The two little guys were only born three days away, one on November 3 and the other on November 6. They are not five months old until now.

Seattle is special.

Everyone discovered this shortly after the little girl was born. Little children, who should be naive and ignorant, always like to look at everything around them curiously with a pair of beautiful eyes, and they are very quiet most of the day. The female assistant suspected that the child had a hearing problem, and was tested for this purpose.

The little guy is healthy.

The pediatrician in charge of examining the children decided at that time that Seattle would be very smart in the future.

I just didn't expect that the child would call mom and dad in just over four months.

As the father of three children, he has a lot of life experience. Simon knows very well that most children, even smarter ones, take about eight months to be able to make simple pronunciation, usually after one year of age. .

Judging from the reaction of her own daughter just now, the little girl can not only call out Mom and Dad, but even knows the meaning, or she would not hesitate before being encouraged by Janet to call Simon "Mom", which is even rarer. After all, even if most children learn some simple language before one year old, they are more of a conditioned reflex after the parents have been guided for a long time, tending to instinct rather than self-consciousness.

Everyone sat down on the sofa by the curtain wall, and the family enjoyed parent-child time against the backdrop of the burning clouds covering the sky and the sea.

Repeatedly teaching Nick how to learn to no avail, Janet again discussed with the female assistant about changing children, and she doubted that Seattle was originally her daughter. After all, she is so smart and Simon is so smart, and the children should be smart too. , How the female assistant gave birth to a smart daughter.

Simon actually thinks so.

Both sons are healthy, so according to some theories, they should be very smart indeed. In fact, Melbourne is also very smart. The little guy is now less than two and a half years old. Under the patient guidance of the female assistant, he has learned a lot of words and speaks very fluently. The small appearance of observing words and colors in front of his'moody' mother is even better. Absolutely.

It's a pity that when compared with his sister, she was instantly overshadowed.

Regarding Janet's argument, the female assistant smiled and retorted that she was also very smart, and her genes were more compatible with the child's father, which gave birth to a little genius.

Hey, this is a provocation.

The big girl in the room rebelled, how dare to be so rebellious.

So the two women who were already mothers smiled and fluttered together, and they were not separated until Simon himself "persuaded him to fight". As a mediator, she was threatened by a female assistant to sign an unequal treaty, saying that she would not go to San Francisco on business this weekend and stay with her children at home.

Hua Deng is on.

Girl D came to remind that dinner was ready, and the family got up and went to the restaurant.

After dinner, the female assistant did not go to the villa next to her as usual. Since something happened last week, everyone lived in the Shell Villa, and Veronica also did not go to her apartment in the east.

The three children were accompanied by Veronica, and Simon and the three cuddled together on the sofa in the living room to watch TV, occasionally chatting in detail.

At ten o'clock, after seeing the children, the three of them went to the master bedroom on the third floor to rest.

For the three of them, Janet doesn’t care much, and always likes to take advantage of the female assistants. On the contrary, Jennifer was not quite used to it at first, but quickly became accustomed to it. Recently, there has been a habit similar to Janet, like sleeping He hugged the man next to him tightly.

It seemed that Simon would suddenly disappear.

The assassination that did not pose any threat to the Westeros family a few days ago was not without a trace after all.

I originally planned to go to San Francisco this weekend. Since I agreed to a female assistant yesterday, I didn't make the trip. I just discussed various matters with the senior executives in Silicon Valley through a video conference.

The main one is the cooperation negotiations between Igreat and the Salisberg family behind the New York Times Group.

Last month, through Joseph Schlapp conveyed the intention of reconciliation, Simon had a meeting with the current principal of the Salzberg family, Arthur Salzberger Jr., and the two parties were quite happy, but Simon did not immediately promise What? Just let the executives of the New York Times Group negotiate and cooperate with the team of Eaglet.

Originally, the progress was fairly smooth. Since the London Girl incident broke out at the beginning of the month, coupled with another storm caused by Simon's personal net worth exceeding US$200 billion, it probably felt that his own importance had increased, and the New York Times Group negotiating team once again grasped it.

Simon's response to Bezos was that he never wanted to, even more harsh.

Since the merger of the Boston Globe last year, the New York Times Group currently has 32 newspapers, 39 magazines, 5 local television stations, two radio stations, and various other affiliated companies across North America, and even the two most important in Hollywood One of the media, the "Hollywood Reporter", the New York Times Group now holds 33% of the shares.

If it is still in the pre-Internet era, such a super media empire is enough to incite a war like the Hearst Group, absolutely no one dares to provoke it, and Simon will definitely work hard to get along with it.

Now it is different from the past.

Although Eaglet has never claimed to be a media company, anyone with a discerning eye knows that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional old media.

Even if the users of all 32 newspapers of the New York Times Group add up, the scale cannot be compared with the Igreat portal, which almost monopolizes the traffic of 85 million Internet users in North America. That's right, it's just the first quarter that is about to pass. Compared with the 75 million at the end of 1993, the total number of Internet users in the United States has once again increased by 10 million. It is expected that it will exceed 100 million in 1994.