Here is a spreadsheet of all the senators who voted for Kavanaugh, along with the money they have been given by the "liberal" tech giants in Silicon Valley. Let me respond to a few questions I've seen posted about this.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j-3eA9DpezjeGwljpTP6W1eSe1XwPn0eY28l9-GpuQk/edit#gid=0 …
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1. "What does it matter if these dollar amounts are so small?" Election law limits PACs to giving $10,000 per election cycle. In absolute terms, it's not a lot. But if it doesn't matter, why do corporations take such pains to do it? Clearly it has value beyond the raw dollars.
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2. "Why aren't you posting what these companies give to Democrats?". Most political giving is configured to be roughly equal to both parties. But if I write a $1000 check to the KKK, it doesn't balance out if I write the same check to the NAACP. These are uniquely bad politicians
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3. "More of a question than a comment. Everyone is doing this, it's part of doing business. Don't be naive, snowflake." Except that Apple does absolutely fine without a PAC. Twitter's seems to exist just to humiliate the company—they barely give. We have proof by counterexample
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4. "Isn't it unfair to cherry-pick donations? They give to both sides equally." Political giving is NOT symmetrical, even beyond my argument up in (2). When Facebook gave to Devin Nunes in May, they didn't also give to his opponent Andrew Janz. And if they had, why give at all?
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