Salesforce also indirectly supported fellow Mateer sponsor Ted Cruz through their donations to the Promoting our Republican Team PAC, Hawkeye PAC, and Big Sky Opportunity PAC (PACs like to donate to one another in a touching show of solidarity).
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Their donation to the Hawkeye PAC (Chuck Grassley's leadership PAC) means that Salesforce gave its indirect support to Steve King, the openly white supremacist congressman who struggles with fundraising. (Disclosure: I raised money for King's opponent in 2018).pic.twitter.com/AsjdQye3dX
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Another recipient of that Big Sky Opportunity PAC money, Josh Hawley, has ties to radical anti-LGBT cleric David Barton, who has compared homosexuals to Nazis. Yet another, Karin Housley, voted down marriage equality in Minnesota.
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But if we get into indirect donations, we'll be here all day! So back to direct stuff. In 2018,
@salesforce gave money to Cory Gardner, two months after he voted to give a lifetime judicial appointment to anti-LGBT radical Kyle Duncan. https://www.glaad.org/blog/senate-confirms-anti-lgbtq-lawyer-kyle-duncan-lifetime-judicial-appointment …pic.twitter.com/QwTWcg9x70
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In 2017 and 2018,
@saleforce donated to Todd Young, who wants to make it legal for employers to deny coverage for birth control in employee health plans. This isn't just a matter of reproductive choice—it is a question of basic medical care for half the population.#equality!pic.twitter.com/QCueEgimEu
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So what's my point?
@salesforce clearly spends a monumental amount of money to project a certain image. Those Ohanas aren't cheap! Plus there's every indication that executives from Benioff on down sincerely share political values that we people on the left find warm and fuzzy2 replies 5 retweets 24 likesShow this thread -
Compared to this branding and sponsorship effort, the political donations Salesforce makes are peanuts. But because they have the company name on them, and go to bad people, they ruin the image the company is working to project. Why have them at all? Why not shut this PAC down?
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If you work at
@saleforce, you can find a complete list of people paying in to the PAC here: https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/471/201812069134380471/201812069134380471.pdf … Reach out to coworkers and let them know how their money is getting spent! I am confident you can get this small PAC de-funded if you put your back into it.2 replies 14 retweets 48 likesShow this thread -
Last thing I want to add is, people getting discouraged by this are getting the wrong message. Twitter's PAC is down to *two* employee donors. A British employee got Intel to stop donating to Steve King just by citing the company's policies at them. These are winnable battles!
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