LinkedIn Founder Gives $25,000 To Unseat Judge Who Presided Over Brock Turner Rape Trial

Story out of California:

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has thrown his weight — and his money — behind a Crowdpac campaign to recall the Judge Aaron Persky, who delivered the sentence in the Brock Turner rape case, Business Insider reports.

Hoffman has committed $25,000 to the campaign funding efforts to recall the California judge who was re-elected for six years in June, after running unopposed.

The Stanford alumnus explained his motivation for supporting the recall campaign in a blog post yesterday.

"This woefully unjust sentence sends a powerful message about how our culture systematically discounts and excuses sexual violence against women," the LinkedIn founder writes. "To counteract that message, we must send equally powerful messages that signal our demand for reform." Cont.

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