Google gave $5000 to Mitch McConnell's leadership PAC on January 22. This is on top of their donation made directly to McConnell's campaign in December.pic.twitter.com/IYW6kxzCPy
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Google gave $5000 to Mitch McConnell's leadership PAC on January 22. This is on top of their donation made directly to McConnell's campaign in December.pic.twitter.com/IYW6kxzCPy
Google also gave $5000 to Cathy McMorris Rodgers's leadership PAC, in addition to the direct campaign donation I cited upthread.pic.twitter.com/2kOufGCYKp
Mike Johnson co-sponsored the Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act, which turns away asylum applicants at the border, with fellow recipient Doug Collins (see upthread). As a LA state rep, he introduced the discriminatory "Marriage and Conscience Act". Google gave him $1000.pic.twitter.com/nw4e1v8wU5
Google made a $15,000 contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee on Jan 22. (They made an matched contribution to the DCCC, which depending on your stance "balances out" or is even more scandalizing).pic.twitter.com/bEqKCILyh8
Google gave $5,000 to on January 22 to Tuesday Group PAC, a Republican political action committee that redirects donations to a couple of dozen Republican House members. (https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2020&cmte=C00433060 …)pic.twitter.com/rJscd4k7CA
To be clear what this money is: it comes from donations made voluntarily by Google employees, usually by paycheck deduction, then given in the company's name by the Google director of public policy (a Republican) to candidates of the company's choosing.
What’s the typical reasoning for giving to the company PAC vs just donating yourself to candidates directly?
No idea. Most Googlers on the donor list wouldn't be caught dead giving to McConnell, but are just fine with it in the company's name. I've RT'd for answers.
Possibly not, in my experience political donations are excluded from donation matching programs, but might be different with the PAC I guess
Matching is illegal.
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