This announcement comes at a time when Google is increasingly involved in political issues–from its strong stance against the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy laws, to changes in its privacy policy, to getting FCC approval to install a satellite antenna farm in Iowa.
Molinari represented Staten Island for the GOP from 1990 to 1997 and at that time she was the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, according to Politico. For the past decade, she has been working as a lobbyist, most recently for the government affairs consulting firm Susan Molinari Strategies.
