I'm surprised that the news of Microsoft suspending their political donations hasn't been more broadly covered.
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The world's largest corporation by market cap shut down its political action committee because of internal employee pressure on ethics. Seems relevant to
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And by shut down, I mean the head of MSPAC is gone! This wasn't just a conciliatory memo. It's the outcome of a multi-year internal effort by dedicated employees and deserves more attention from people covering campaign finance reform or labor activism
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Since this thread got linked, I'll re-post some resources here. This is the leaked internal memo suspending the PAC and promising employee participation in future decision-making: https://idlewords.com/microsoft_pac_statement.html …
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And this is more context on (speculation!) one reason the director of MSPAC may have left the company: https://idlewords.com/2019/07/microsoft_s_hypocrisy_on_daca.htm …
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There was always an untenable degree of dissonance between Microsoft's public statements and political giving, collected here: https://idlewords.com/microsoft_words_actions.html …. Neither the CEO or president had veto power over PAC donations, which made the timing of certain ones particularly bad.
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Microsoft is a finalist (along with Amazon) for a $10B Pentagon cloud computing contract. For them to decide to suspend their political giving now, before a final decision is made, reflects the degree of internal pressure Microsoft employees were bringing to bear
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If you've argued that corporate PACs are just a fact of doing business in the United States, consider that now the two largest American corporations don't run one. And I feel confident that Apple and Microsoft get their calls answered in D.C.
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My mistake was posting this story myself instead of feeding it to a reporter. They're like pythons; you have to wiggle the prey in front of them so they feel like they're hunting something
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