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2)I want thoughtful policy makers and rational policy. (Don’t we all?)

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3)In the end, the issues I care about are those that are most important to the world we hand off to our children. None have been more prominent, recently, than our bungled response to COVID. We have to prevent the next pandemic to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

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4)But there are more issues I care about, many of which cut across the partisan divide: preventing pandemics protecting consumers while encouraging innovation promoting freedom and preserving democracy balancing economic growth with inflation.

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5)I’ll continue to engage on the issues, and continue to support honest, thoughtful, policy makers, whatever party they come from. What does this mean for 2022, and 2024? Who knows! It will depend on the details.

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6)In the end I care about policy, not politics, and I don’t think either party has a monopoly on good ideas. My contributions could be substantial, or not; and their party breakdown will depend on the candidates and policies.

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7)(A huge congratulations to those lawmakers dedicated to preventing pandemics on both sides of the aisle and across the country who just won their races, of which there are too many to list here!)

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8)Which brings me to my final point, and the most important one. I’m honored to be able to support great policy makers; just as I’m honored to support my colleagues at foundations. But in the end, it’s the work they do—not the contributions I make—that matters.

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