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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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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