The real hero in all this is the excellent FEC website. Go to http://fec.gov -> campaign finance data -> filings and reports -> PAC and party committee reports and use the filter box to search for your employer, to find out what your backbreaking office labor is funding.
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Employees at Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others deserve an explanation for why money is being given in their name to help re-elect some of the worst people in government.
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Here's Salesforce (which only very recently started political giving) donating to re-elect climate science denialist and self-proclaimed "friend of coal" Larry Bucshon in April.pic.twitter.com/7ckTz3sWt5
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Here's Facebook donating to Patrick McHenry, a blockchain-obsessed Republican who has moved aggressively to dismantle consumer protections on the financial industry. https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedknutson/2018/07/18/regulators-need-to-use-big-data-artificial-intelligence-to-meet-fintech-challenge-says-key-us-rep/ …pic.twitter.com/FPyhDpPJLX
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McHenry was also rude to Elizabeth Warren in a hearing to such an extent that his hometown paper felt compelled to apologize. The pattern seems to be, if you're an asshole to Elizabeth Warren (Daines, McHenry), Facebook PAC will give you thousands
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Here's Google donating $5K (the maximum permissible) to an entity called ICE PAC on June 30. ICE PAC is backing a raft of Republican candidates for the House and Senate. See "Itemized Disbursements" for the full list. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/368/201807219119262368/201807219119262368.pdf …pic.twitter.com/uuqDweYkZC
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Here's Silicon Valley Bank PAC maxing out to Kevin McCarthy on June 1, the only donation it made in this filing. McCarthy is a climate change denialist and a leader in the fight to repeal Obamacare. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/593/201807209119247593/201807209119247593.pdf …pic.twitter.com/1dLZfEEM5J
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If you're wondering who at Google is donating all this money to Republicans, you can find a full donor list here. These look like payroll deductions, and I suspect a number of these employees aren't aware that they're bankrolling the far right. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/946/201807209115824946/201807209115824946.pdf …
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Here's Salesforce on June 28 making a $1500 donation to Promoting Our Republican Team PAC. The money is funnelled directly to a half-dozen Republican Senate candidates in competitive races. http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/152/201807249119313152/201807249119313152.pdf …pic.twitter.com/QZWOuto3Lv
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I have zero factual information, but I speculate that there is a class of professional PAC runners out there who promise to place the money in ways that best align etc and so forth, and that literally nobody at Facebook or wherever knows or cares where the money goes.
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It's like United Way. You give to the PAC to signal to your peers and your boss, not because you're charitable. In this case, you give to the PAC to signal loyalty to the corporation. The money is then spent by a faceless stranger, its function having already been served.
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