Hollywood Hunter

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

Simon has also carefully compiled the information in his mind about the 1994 midterm elections these days.

The memorable 1994 mid-term elections are one of the Democratic Party’s unsuccessful defeats in decades, and the most important point is to highlight the role of money in political campaigns.

Among them, two California senator candidates, the 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, equivalent to the average of this year. Senate candidates are about ten times the campaign funding of about $4 million.And just this 4 million US dollars is equivalent to more than double the average campaign funding of less than 2 million US dollars in the 1992 senator election.

In 1994, the average campaign fund for each 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, parliamentarians of the two parties began to promote the relaxation of political campaign fundraising restrictions.

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

Seeing Simon did not respond, the A girl continued: "Another thing, 3 of the 7 Democratic candidates on our sniper list are also targeted by the National Rifle Association, 16 Republican candidates, 1 in the rifle The association’s targeting is similar to their Democratic opponents. There are 4 similar targets for our rifle association, and 3 targets for each other. 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 a criminal background check on gun buyers.

There have been attempts by the two parties in the United States to promote similar bills for decades, until they were finally passed last year.

The passage of the Brady Act and another offensive weapon 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, and neither the White House nor Congress avoided it. As a result, no politician dared to indict the gun decree for many years.Not only that, the assault weapon ban expired ten years later, even if public opinion demanded an indefinite extension of the ban, both parties in the United States chose to ignore it, resulting in a large number of powerful assault weapons re-entering the market, and the frequency of U.S. shootings Then it increased significantly.

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

Although the National Rifle Association has a profound accumulation of hundreds of years, but in terms of economic strength, it is far inferior to the current Westeros system.

Therefore, through this'sniping plan', Simon hopes to achieve a similar deterrent effect as the National Rifle Association after the 1994 midterm elections.

With this in mind, Simon immediately remembered another thing.

The members of the Westeros system have already supported the law. This year, some people may be among the targets of the National Rifle Association. In any case, the "basic disk" of this part of the Westeros system is even more important than the current "sniping plan". , So it must be ensured.

Simon raised his head and was about to say something to girl A. Think about it again and say, "Help me get Joseph."

When Larry Ellison left, it was already off-duty time on the West Coast. At eight o'clock on the East Coast, Simon couldn't care too much.

Girl A felt Simon's tone,

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

After a brief chat, Simon and Shrap talked about what he had just thought of.

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

If you want to pass the Congress bill, you need to get more than half of the members to vote.

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

Therefore, Schlapp said that it is not difficult to remove most of the "basic disk" of the Westeros system from the target list of the National Rifle Association. Of course, this process will certainly avoid some games and exchanges.Even if it can't be removed in the end, both sides will show their magical powers in the election.

Since Schrap still had entertainment, Simon didn't talk much with each other.It was agreed that Schrap would fly to the West Coast on Sunday to interview various recent matters. Simon by the way greeted a senator and the two parties hung up.

Simon continued to scan the stack of documents in front of him, noted down some handling matters and forwarded them to Alison outside by mail. It was not until after six o'clock that time.

Returning to Dumei Cape Manor, just after entering the shell villa house, Janet greeted him with a small dot, claiming that another child in the family would call her mother.

Veronica, who had just returned from the East Coast today, followed Melbourne and Jennifer holding little Nick. They also followed with surprise and surprise in their expressions.

Simon is still a little puzzled. Janet has lifted a little girl with a special pair of eyes before Simon and encouraged: "Sil, call her mother."

Seattle was sitting in Janet's arms facing Simon, blinking his beautiful blue eyes. He seemed to hesitate a little, but still opened his mouth and said a word to Simon in a very soft voice: "Mom."

Simon: "..."

Janet obviously didn't feel anything wrong, and the emotion was more exciting than a little guy's mother: "Look, I already knew that Sear is a genius, better than the small vases Simon raised."

Veronica next to him saw Simon's depression, and there was a smile on the corner of her mouth.

The female assistant handed Nick to the girl D next to her, smiled and stepped forward to take the child from Janet, and said to Simon: "Sil often cries very little on weekdays and is always quiet. I always worry that she will talk It was very late. After a random test in the afternoon, the baby shouted, "said looking at the daughter in her arms and pointed at Simon: "Sir, this is Dad, call Dad."

For children who have just learned to speak, the word'Daddy' is actually more difficult 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 this as'Daddy'.

Janet also took over her second son from Girl D at the same time, as usual: "Baby, it's mom... well, it's okay to call Dad, hurry up, don't tell me not to eat at night... I really don't allow you to eat dinner Myself."

It's a pity that a little guy just looked at Janet blankly, probably feeling Janet's vicious threat, and soon cried out with a wow.

Seeing this situation in Melbourne, who was always cleverly holding a small hand and standing beside Veronica, the small body could not help but hide from the side, obviously worried that his mother would not let herself eat.

Simon took off his coat and handed it to Alia. He took Nick from the disappointed Janet's arms and led the family to the glass curtain wall of the Shell Villa, while teaching Janet: "Nick is still young, don't bother you. He is."

Janet was dissatisfied and said: "Sill is also very small."

The two little guys were born only three days away, one on November 3 and one on November 6, and they are still not five months old.

Seattle is special.

Everyone discovered this shortly after the little girl was born. The little kid, who was supposed to be naive, always likes to look at everything around him with a pair of beautiful eyes, full of curiosity, and is usually quiet for most of the weekdays. The female assistant suspected that the child had hearing problems, so she specifically checked it.

The little guy is very healthy.

The pediatrician who was responsible for examining the child decided at the time that Seattle would be very smart in the future.

I just didn't expect the child to call my parents more than four months.

As a father of three children, he has many life experiences. Simon knows that most children, even smarter ones, need about eight months to make simple pronunciations, usually after one year of age. .

Judging from the reaction of her daughter just now, the little girl can not only call out her father and mother, she even already knows the meaning, or she will not hesitate before she is encouraged by Janet to call Simon'Mom', which is even more rare.After all, even if most children learn some simple language before the age of one, more of it is just conditioned reflex after long-term guidance from their parents, which tends to be instinct rather than self-conscious.

Everyone came to sit on the sofa beside the curtain wall, and the family enjoyed the family time under the background of the burning clouds across the ocean.

Repeatedly teaching Little Nick to learn nothing, Janet once again discussed the matter of changing children with the female assistant, and was very suspicious that Seattle was originally her daughter. After all, she was so smart, Simon was so smart, and the child should be very smart. Why did the female assistant have a smart daughter.

Simon actually thinks so.

Both sons are very 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 patience of the female assistant, she has learned a lot of words and spoke very fluently. On weekdays, she looks even more observant in front of her “moody” mother. Absolutely.

It's a pity that when compared with his sister, she suddenly eclipsed.

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

Hey, this is provocative.

The big house girl rebelled and dared to do such a big deal.

So the two women who were already moms grumbled together until Simon personally persuaded him to be separated.As a mediator, she was also threatened by a female assistant to sign an unequal treaty, stating that she will not go to San Francisco for a business trip this weekend and stay with her children at home.

The lantern was at the beginning.

Girl D came over to remind that the 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 door as usual. Since something happened last week, everyone in the residential shell villa, Veronica also did not go to her apartment in the east.

The three children were accompanied by Veronica, and the three of Simon cuddled together on a living room sofa to watch TV, and occasionally talked about some topics in detail.

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

For three people together, Janet doesn’t care much, and always likes to take advantage of female assistants. On the contrary, Jennifer was not very accustomed to it at first, but soon became accustomed to it. Recently, a habit similar to Janet appeared and she likes to sleep. Zhong tightly hugged the man next to him.

It seemed that Simon would disappear suddenly.

The assassination that did not pose any threat to the Westeros family the other day was not a trace.

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

The main one is the cooperation negotiation between Eaglet and the Salzburg family behind the New York Times Group.

Last month, he conveyed the intention of reconciliation through Joseph Schlapp. Simon had a meeting with the current principal of the Salzberger family, Arthur Salzberger Jr., and the two parties were quite happy, but Simon did not immediately promise. What, just let the New York Times Group executives and Igerit company team negotiate negotiation cooperation.

The original progress was fairly smooth. Since the outbreak of the London girl incident at the beginning of the month, coupled with another storm caused by Simon's personal net worth exceeding 200 billion US dollars, it seems that he feels that his importance has increased, and the New York Times Group negotiating team has once again picked up.

Simon's response to Bezos was that he never wanted to let it go, even more harshly.

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

If it is still in the pre-Internet era, such a super media empire like the Hearst Group is enough to instigate a war. No one dares to provoke it, and Simon will definitely try to make good friends with it.

It is different now.

Although Igerit has never claimed to be a media company, anyone with a clear eye understands that the public influence of this Internet platform is no less than that of traditional media.

Even if all the users of the 32 newspapers of the New York Times Group add up, the scale cannot be compared with the Igret portal, which almost monopolizes the flow of 85 million netizens in North America.That's right, it's just that in the first quarter of the past, the total number of Internet users in the United States has increased by another 10 million compared with 75 million at the end of 1993. It is expected that the number will break through 100 million in 1994.