Thread by @docrussjackson

FUN FACTS:

Carrie Symond's dad, Matthew John Symonds, was a co-founder of the Independent newspaper, is executive director of the 'Larry Ellison (just the ninth-wealthiest person on earth, with a fortune of $108 billion) Foundation', & of course, father-in-law to Boris Johnson.

Larrry Ellison is an interesting chap.

In December 2018, he became a director on the board of Tesla, Inc., after purchasing 3 million sharesm & as of December 31, 2019, Ellison owns 36.2% of the shares of Oracle Corporation - the second-largest software company in the world.

Ellison has been critical of Edward Snowden, saying: "Snowden had yet to identify a single person who had been 'wrongly injured' by the NSA's data collection".

In 2014 he hosted Libertarian Republican Senator Rand Paul at a fundraiser at his home.

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Ellison was one of the top donors to Conservative Solutions PAC, a super PAC supporting Rubio's 2016 presidential bid. As of February 2016, Ellison had given $4 million overall to the PAC.

In 2020, Ellison allowed Donald Trump to have a fundraiser at his Rancho Mirage estate.

In 96, Matthew Symonds said he was an 'economic liberal', but sounds more like a typical right-wing libertarian: "the only way in which you can find efficient & humane solutions to problems is to give people as much information & as much power over their own lives as possible."