Well, we can say again, that Apple and Amazon each already have hundreds of workers in NC. Retail stores, immense data centers. And more to come.
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Amazon’s PAC just invested a bunch of money into our local elections.
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Interestinge, how is this to be confirmed?
10. North Carolina: $37,000
Amazon PAC’s top Carolina donation went to the congressional campaign of Republican Mark Meadows ($8,500).
Raleigh’s HQ2 bid has not been disclosed.
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For the uninformed, that is Mark “Freedom Caucus” Meadows. A head scratcher to say the least…
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Isn’t Amazon putting a distribution center in Garner? Is that the area this congressman represents?
Meadows is western NC minus Asheville and Boone. He is about as far right as right can go.
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This is from the “With Honor” PAC that funds the campaigns of military veterans. I wouldn’t look too deeply in to this as some kind of intent to locate HQ2 here.
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More signs pointing to northern VA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amazon-in-advanced-talks-about-putting-hq2-in-northern-virginia-those-close-to-process-say/2018/11/02/9be831d6-d7c0-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?utm_term=.220c24e22f05
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Well maybe this will finally break the inertia on Apple and its announcement.
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Good for Crystal City!
I still wish that Amazon and Apple had both put Raleigh on a short-short list just for the attention that it brings, but oh well at least we where on one list for one time…
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I don’t mind HQ2 going to NoVa. The more expensive that area gets, the more smaller companies might trickle down to Raleigh.
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I believe we will see a lot move here. And it will add to the influx of people moving here for Jobs as well.
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“Jobs” is capitalized.
Apple confirmed!
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Do you have a source for this information?
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I might be going out on a limb here but… I think he was joking 
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I think that Tenkai was referring to RobertB’s capitalization of “Jobs” in the sentence and not necessarily any announcement? Of course, I could and would love to be proven wrong?
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It does make sense but as one of the other cities, I would be just a bit irritated after having put some much into my bid…but there you go and there you are…Lol
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