The wife of Amazon's new CEO-to-be donated to Bernie Sanders in 2016

• Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that Andy Jassy would succeed him as Amazon's CEO.
• Elana Jassy, the AWS CEO's wife, donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2016.
• Sanders has been a staunch critic of Amazon, once proposing the "Stop BEZOS Act" in the Senate.

Elana Jassy, the wife of the newly announced Amazon CEO-to-be Andy Jassy, donated to Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2016 bid for the presidency.

Elana Jassy gave $250 to Sanders' campaign in February 2016, during his primary contest against Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination, according to FEC records published by the Center for Responsive Politics. She donated $750 to Clinton in July of that year, after she won the Democratic nomination.

Jeff Bezos announced Tuesday that Andy Jassy would become the new CEO of Amazon later this year as he moved to an executive chairman role and focused his energies on other efforts, including Blue Origin and the Washington Post.

Andy and Elana Jassy married in 1997, and property records show the two appear to own a home together with the same Seattle zip code as the Elana Jassy identified in the FEC records.

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Elana Jassy didn't donate to any candidates during the 2020 presidential primaries. In September 2020, she donated $2,800 to now-President Joe Biden's campaign, as well as to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a group affiliated with the Democratic National Committee, according to FEC records. She has also donated to other high-profile Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Andy Jassy, a two-decade company man who rose to power through building Amazon Web Services, has confined his political contributions of tens of thousands of dollars to the Amazon corporate political action committee, which contributes to both parties. The records published by the Center for Responsive Politics do not show any donations from him to individual political candidates.

As the incoming CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy will have to deftly navigate labor issues, governmental oversight, and a rising tide on the left that large corporations and the wealth they accrue should be scrutinized closely.

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One of those salient voices has been Sanders. The Vermont senator has been a vocal critic of Amazon, in 2018 introducing the "Stop BEZOS Act" that would have required large employers, such as Amazon, to pay the government an additional tax that would cover worker benefits. He has also clashed with the company over its opposition to labor unions.

Sanders has argued in favor of breaking up big tech companies, including Amazon.

At an industry conference in 2019, Andy Jassy said Amazon's executives "don't spend a lot of time talking about" breaking up the company.