Shapiro ‘Almost Ready’ to Vote for Clinton
CTA President Gary Shapiro, who supported GOP candidate Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election (see 1211080036), is likely to vote this year for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, he said in a Friday Facebook post. “Despite having supported, contributed and advocated for the last few Republican presidential candidates,” Shapiro is “almost ready” to vote for Clinton because “she is experienced, stable and by every measure a better choice,” he said. Shapiro later explained his "almost ready" wording by saying he hadn't yet filled out his absentee ballot, saying he pondered several options about how he would vote.
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Clinton is “good on tech policy, social issues and hopefully trade,” Shapiro said. “Her husband was a great president who appreciated that businesses create jobs.” Shapiro thinks Clinton “means well” and did “ground breaking work establishing rights of children and fighting for women globally,” he said. “She also is passionate about the value of a free Internet.”
Shapiro thinks Clinton does have her “issues,” he said. “She does what unions want” and has had “several incidences of poor judegment [sic] which I hope she learned from,” he said. “I hope she can understand that American companies are in a global battle and need a supportive government willing to let them hire the best and brightest and not face unfair tax and regulatory burdens.” Shapiro has "written a few opinion pieces over the last year or so giving my opinion" on Republican nominee Donald Trump, he emailed us Saturday. In numerous commentary pieces, blog posts and tweets over the past 15 months, Shapiro has made clear he's no Trump fan (see 1601210040 and 1606170031).
A Trump presidency’s “only redeeming virtues” would be its advocacy for “restrictions on regulatory overreach,” lower corporate taxes, investing in infrastructure and “pro-business Supreme Court appointees,” Shapiro said Friday. But Shapiro thinks Trump is “such a horrible immoral sexist, racist, nasty person he should not sit in the White House,” he said. Trump campaign representatives didn't comment Monday.