{"id":317524,"date":"2021-08-06T23:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/donate-to-employees-us-senator-campaign-get-dinner-with-peter-theil\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T23:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:19:49","slug":"donate-to-employees-us-senator-campaign-get-dinner-with-peter-theil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/donate-to-employees-us-senator-campaign-get-dinner-with-peter-theil\/","title":{"rendered":"#Donate to employee’s US Senator campaign, get dinner with Peter Theil"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Donate to employee’s US Senator campaign, get dinner with Peter Theil<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Want to have an intimate dinner with Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel? Just donate $5,800 to one of his employees\u2019 campaigns for US Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Donors who give the maximum legal amount to support Blake Masters\u2019 bid to unseat Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly in 2022 will be invited to have dinner with the candidate and Thiel, according to the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Masters, the 34-year-old chief operating officer at investment firm Thiel Capital and a former protege of Thiel at Stanford University, first announced his Republican primary campaign last month with a promise to \u201ccompletely end illegal immigration.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a tweet<\/a> announcing the unconventional promotion, Masters said people who donated $5,800 by the end of the day Friday would be able to attend dinners with the pair in small groups of four to six. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Richard Hasen, an election law expert at the University of California, Irvine, said that nothing about Masters\u2019 offer app<\/a>eared to violate campaign finance laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very common for celebrities to lend their names or appearances to help a campaign,\u201d said Hasen. \u2018What\u2019s unusual about this is that seems pretty cheap for a meeting with Peter Thiel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Thiel has already donated $10 million to a Super PAC supporting Masters.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thiel has already donated $10 million to a Super PAC supporting Masters, as well as an additional $10 million to another one of his employees, \u00a0\u201cHillbilly Elegy\u201d author and Ohio senate candidate J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n

Now, the Silicon Valley billionaire known for co-founding PayPal and Palantir and being an early investor in Facebook<\/a> is giving Masters another boost.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Arizona Senate candidate and Thiel Capital executive Blake Masters wants to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. <\/figcaption>
Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Masters \u2014 who co-wrote the best-selling 2014 book \u201cZero to One\u201d with Thiel \u2014 declined to say how many people have taken his campaign up on the offer or what will be served at dinner. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe response has been great \u2014 especially as a lot of these people have never donated to any political candidate before,\u201d Masters told The Post on Friday.<\/p>\n

Some critics have pointed out that Masters\u2019 plans to increase border security could make his current boss rich.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Masters declined to say what will be served at the dinners but it could look something like this. <\/figcaption>
Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thiel, who is the co-founder and chairman of Palantir \u2014 a multibillion-dollar data analysis company that has worked with agencies like Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Patrol \u2014 as well as a major investor in Anduril, another tech company that works with CBP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Asked last month if his plan for the border as Senator would include giving more government contracts to his current boss\u2019 companies, Masters did not say.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m familiar with those companies and bullish on them,\u201d he said in reference to Palantir and Anduril. \u201cI\u2019m open to whatever works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Masters has called Thiel a \u201cmentor type figure.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Masters has also denied that Thiel\u2019s extensive support would allow the billionaire to buy influence. \u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n