Election spending reframed as failed corporate investment
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Campaign finance expert Greg Coleridge characterized corporate donations as investments seeking policy returns. He noted the irony that DoorDash's attempt to influence the election through spending was unsuccessful, leading instead to enforcement action.
“It's not a contribution, it's an investment, with the donor or investor expecting something in return. Here is an instance where organized money from a company that was trying to avoid being responsible and accountable, was unsuccessful.”
Greg Coleridge
Zohran Mamdani NYC MayorDoorDash Delivery platform companyFix the City Super PACGreg Coleridge Campaign finance advocate
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In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Mamdani. https:// theintercept.com/2026/09/23/do ordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement
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services like door-dash are literally built on a concept of a sucker pays more. you order a meal that costs $10. total charge comes to $25. then delivery worker made $5 on that order. + the delivery worker expects a tip.which means the company sees both the delivery worker and the person who ordered as suckers. no wonder ride-share companies…
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100% they have had too much political protection and gave grown their coffers to the magnitude that puts their org above the law almost. In this case, it's a small win but given the skewed nature of our society, I'll still gladly take this win bc some greedy soulless husk at doordash corporate is upset by this action
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https:// theintercept.com/2026/09/23/do ordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement/
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Ever since it was found that they took part of driver's tips for themselves, I didn't trust the company
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Right, but thats the point. This all seems like astroturfed nonsense to drive division. There's been tons of posts with Mamdani getting credit for something that was going on prior to his being in office and comment sections are riddled with "this is why Dems are scared of Mamdani" nonsense comments.
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DoorDash and gig companies generally are a play to destabilize employment and turn as many people as possible from employees entitled to benefits and legal protections into contractors that can be discarded at whim. How is ordering, say, a pizza via DoorDash in any way better for you, as a customer, than ordering from a pizza place that employs…
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Your schools are socialist. Your roads are socialist. Your police are socialist. If the government provides the service to everyone from tax dollars - that's socialism. "In capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. In communism, it's the other way around."
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Even though the press likes to give Mamdani all the credit for these types of things, this started with a law passed under DeBlasio, and most of the investigation was done under Adams.
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Interesting that the country that says it is not capitalist is winning at capitalism And once the corpses pile high, the government takes the spoils of war from the winner.
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What does "this is not a pay wall" mean - if I have to give personal information over, that is a price.Didn't read - too expensive.
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> Founders: Tony Xu, Stanley Tang, Andy Fang, and Evan Moore (Stanford students at the time)Guess never got a chance to learn empathy.
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