So who is making these political decisions? It's not the donors—typically high-level executives pay into a company PAC automatically, and if you look at personal political donations from people like Sheryl Sandberg or @boztank, none of them go to people like Scalise or Nunes.
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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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They do. I don't know what the process is for setting this up, or why people choose to do it, or if there is any pressure, tacit or otherwise, to do so.
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