FEC listings are public records, but audiences and context matter a lot. I've struggled to find a balance with this, calling attention to tech companies' political giving by citing FEC materials that contain employee names and (sometimes) home addresses. It's tricky.
I think this stuff is subtle. I'm 100% on board with "don't eat at Martha's Tacos because the owner donated to Trump". An easy-to-spread image, tweeted from a high-follower account, with names of retired people just marked as TRUMP DONORS icks me out.
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But if that's the main concern, don't forget that "retired" isn't the same as "random people." Eric Schmidt can self-identify as "retired" to the FEC; there are retirees on Castro's list who literally have buildings named for them in SA. Would "former CEO, [company]" be better?
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