That same day Google also made a direct $5,000 donation to Kevin McCarthy's re-election fund.pic.twitter.com/8nKz2iB0gf
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That same day Google also made a direct $5,000 donation to Kevin McCarthy's re-election fund.pic.twitter.com/8nKz2iB0gf
Also on June 18, Google donated $5,000 to Steve Scalise's leadership PAC. This money is then given to a long slate of Republican incumbents in the House, plus the maximum allowable donation to Donald Trump.pic.twitter.com/qMH9G6JIo7
Google made a $5,000 donation to Tom Emmer's leadership PAC on June 18, which similarly fans out to a long list of Republican candidates. Someone asked about the small size of these donations—they're capped by law. Google gives all they can; it's their public signal of supportpic.twitter.com/cNJRMfbpvx
Google gave Elise Stefanik's E-PAC a $5,000 donation on June 18, along with Patrick McHenry's Innovation PAC. It was a big day for Republican leadership PACs!pic.twitter.com/CzTOEvyWJw
Jeff Denham's PAC got a Google payday on June 18, with a $5000 donation.pic.twitter.com/VBRHj1AiPH
Google gave $5,000 on June 18 to Utah congressman and former Provo mayor John Curtis, who shielded his rapist police chief while in office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtis_(Utah_politician) …)pic.twitter.com/7mIz2raN5E
Still on June 18, Google gave $2,000 to Ron Estes, an anti-abortion hardliner who advocates defunding Planned Parenthood and asserted in a public debate on the topic that Planned Parenthood had been profiting by selling parts of aborted fetuses.pic.twitter.com/BAl61HYgxq
I've already covered Google's $5,000 June 25 donation to Drew Ferguson's POINT PAC, a third of which was simply passed through to the Trump campaign.pic.twitter.com/f3KTk36PHT
Now, I'm no Googler. But if I worked for a tech company, I would ask myself, is my employer giving money to have Donald Trump elected in 2020? And if the answer was yes, I would stop working for that company, or I would make the company stop giving the money. Again—not a Googler
There must be some nuance I'm missing, like why Google on June 25 gave $2,500 to one of the most virulently anti-gay voices in the Senate, James Lankford. The Oklahoma senator just days ago filibustered the Equality Act and opposes all legal protections for gay Americans.pic.twitter.com/gFUbdVs4mO
On June 18, Google gave $2,500 to Chris Stewart, a Utah congressman who has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, put ankle tracking bracelets on families applying for refugee status, and ban gay marriage. Maybe not surprisingly, Stewart is also the author of "Shattered Bone"pic.twitter.com/H1OQTIhmqn
Kevin Brady's Making America Prosperous PAC also enjoyed a $5,000 donation from Google on June 18, to be distributed to Donald Trump and the usual rogue's gallery of Republican incumbents. All in all, a completely typical month of giving for the company. But it pays well!pic.twitter.com/XLwbnetfOS
The last thing in the FEC filing is a refund to a Googler who I won't name, but who clearly got fed up with donating to these people. Hats off to him, and to the many people at Google I know have been working to try to de-fund this monstrosity by simply reaching out to colleagues
There is no purpose to this form of low-stakes legalized public bribery—we have the example of Apple and IBM to show that you can lobby the government just fine without a political action committee. But at least it reveals something important about the company you work for.
Anyway, see you all here next month for another round of this predictably depressing game, when we look at Google's August filing.
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