Google's October FEC filing is up, showing us which American politicians the company elected to give money to last month. We start out strong with a $1,500 donation to Mitch McConnell on September 30pic.twitter.com/nzNT5TLCav
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My bad, I overlooked this second donation to Mitch McConnell, bringing Google's contribution up to the statutory maximum of $5,000.pic.twitter.com/Mx9nNGGpNU
Google made a $5000 maximum donation to Jeff Denham's PAC, whose recipients include climate change denialist Tom McClintock and Devin Nunes. (Disclosure: I fundraised for McCllintock's opponent in 2018).pic.twitter.com/QLKrTWHVGa
Google also made a max donation to a somewhet mysterious entity called "PAC Unitatis", which I would welcome additional information on. It appears to be a new PAC associated with a guy named Paul Kilgorepic.twitter.com/6usVRZZq7X
Drew Ferguson is an Alabama congressman who voted against the Equality Act, believes abortion should be criminalized, and supported Trump's Muslim ban. He has been an enthusiastic proponent of a border wall. Google gave him all the money it legally could, $5000pic.twitter.com/Gp2v96aBEt
Here's a classic Facebook post from Jeff Duncan. Google gave him $4,000 on September 10pic.twitter.com/5ZtCZz7YQa
Once again Google gave money to Tom Emmer, who is pals with a radical figure named Bradlee Dean. Dean once referred to Muslims calling for the executions of homosexuals in America as "more moral than even the American Christians." #PRIDEpic.twitter.com/3O4UvLgpYh
Bill Cassidy sponsored the Birthright Citizenship Act, which denies American citizenship to kids born in the United States unless one parent is already a citizen or green card holder. Google gave him $3500pic.twitter.com/uDkzb5uK0M
CORRECTION: I tweeted upthread that Google gave Jeff Duncan (the guy who posted a hate image of a white European with a noose around his neck watering a tree labeled "Islam") $4000. But I missed a second donation; the actual total is $9000. Pinboard regrets the error.pic.twitter.com/W4TpkgTmHL
I'm going to leave off here because I'm too discouraged. I'll repeat what I say every month to Googlers: you can shut this down, the same way employees at Microsoft did. The list of all PAC donors is in the filing. Reach out and tell them who they gave to. https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/943/201910189165056943/201910189165056943.pdf …
CORRECTION 2: In this thread I misidentified Drew Ferguson as an Alabama congressman. He represents the 3rd district of Georgia.
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