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    1. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

      Mike Burgess, a climate change denialist and intensely homophobic congressman most famous for for his remarks on fetal masturbation as a reason to ban abortion (https://rewire.news/article/2013/06/17/texas-congressman-masturbating-fetuses-prove-need-for-abortion-ban/ …), received a $2500 campaign contribution from Google on July 8.pic.twitter.com/5yUFvCVfkD

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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

      Kentucky congressman Brett Guthrie, who boasts of a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee, co-sponsor of a bill that would strip LGBT protections in higher education (along with fellow Google recipient Virginia Foxx) got $2500 from Google on July 8pic.twitter.com/z0xFUHayRf

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    3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

      Utah congressman Chris Stewart has voted to defund Planned Parenthood, put ankle tracking bracelets on families applying for refugee status, and ban gay marriage. (Disclosure: I fundraised for Stewart's opponent in 2018). Google gave him a $2000 check on July 23pic.twitter.com/pzjFDiL1YC

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    4. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

      On July 8, Google made a $1500 donation to climate change denialist and self-proclaimed "friend of coal" Larry Bucshon. Bucshon has also donated office funds to the Indiana Family Institute, an affiliate of the Family Research Council, an anti-LGBT hate group.pic.twitter.com/LL7ddQbXql

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      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

      (It used to take me a while to do these threads, but now I can blow through them pretty quickly by searching what I tweeted last time Google contributed to the same people.)

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        2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          In 2015, Bob Latta co-sponsored a House resolution that would have outlawed gay marriage. Google, a forgiving company, loves to give the guy money anyway. Their latest donation for $2500 came on July 8.pic.twitter.com/uujI1gvvLZ

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        3. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Birther congressman Richard Hudson, a strong supporter of Trump's Muslim ban, whose wife is chief of staff to Kellyanne Conway, got a $1000 check from Google on July 8pic.twitter.com/k7BnYekqWl

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        4. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Another perennial Google favorite, Buddy Carter is a co-sponsor of H.R. 586, the Sanctity of Human Life Act, which would ban abortion. It contains no exceptions for the life or health of the mother or for cases of rape or incest. Google gave him another $2000 on July 8.pic.twitter.com/LIH7oDmUo8

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        5. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Florida congressman Gus Bilirakis also wants to outlaw abortion, and has voted for a string of anti-LGBT measures throughout his political career. Google gave him $1000 on July 8pic.twitter.com/769f23WeVL

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        6. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Coal country congressman David McKinley offered an amendment in 2014 to prevent the Defense Department using funds to assess climate change and its implications for national security. Keeping with Google's theme this month, he's also an anti-abortion hardliner. He got $1000pic.twitter.com/yutFbVoV3y

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        7. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson, another coal country climate change denialist. claims same-sex marriage "undermines the integrity of the American family" and called the recent nationwide BLM protests "acts of sedition". Google gave him $1000 on July 8.pic.twitter.com/bNYDtugjGe

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        8. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          As a Virginia legislator, Morgan Griffith fought to pass a ban on same-sex marriage and voted to kill a bill prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. Now that he's in Congress, Google gives him money—$1K on May 24, 2019, and now the same amount on July 8pic.twitter.com/DgFZXDVWY3

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        9. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Also on July 8, Google gave $1000 to Missouri congressman Billy Long, best known for his hardline opposition to immigration, total commitment to banning abortion, and repeated attacks on Facebook for anti-conservative bias. Google elects to pay the ransom instead.pic.twitter.com/6ZZn0a23nI

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        10. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          My habit is to do these threads until I get disgusted, so I'll stop here.. Let me instead answer some of the questions about Google's political giving that come up every month. First, why are these amounts small, and don't all corporations just give to all politicians routinely?

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        11. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          How much Google's corporate PAC can give is regulated by law. At the limit, they can donate $10,000 per election cycle. The amounts you see here are pretty customary—the value is clearly not the monetary donation, but the public expression of political support.

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        12. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Most US corporations who have a PAC take care to balance giving across both parties, but the donations are very much targeted—Google does not give across the board, but to politicians who will advance its overriding interest of avoiding any regulation whatsoever.

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        13. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          PACs are also not an unsavory but unavoidable fact of life in American business. Neither Apple nor IBM has a corporate PAC, and they seem to eke out a living.

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        14. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          The money for Google's PAC comes from voluntary employee donations, but how it is spent is decided by Google's office of Public Policy, headed by a former senior official in the Bush Administration, Karan Bhatia.

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        15. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          All screenshots in this thread are from Google's latest public FEC filing, which also contains a list of all donors. If you work at Google, you can reach out to coworkers on the list and make sure they know how their paycheck deduction is being spent. https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/648/202008209261558648/202008209261558648.pdf …

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        16. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

          Finally, it's important to understand that the financial relationship between Google and Congress is deep, but flows almost entirely the other way. Search any of their names and you'll hit a Google ad. The contributions are best seen as a friendly rebate to ensure future business

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        17. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard 20 Aug 2020

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          Previously: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1285424999256322051 … Previously: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1267216964486758400 … Previously: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1223492424133226497 … And so on. Just search "Google donation" for years of my tilting at this particular windmill.

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          Google's December FEC filing is up. Google made a $1500 political donation to Mitch McConnell on December 20 pic.twitter.com/AtLrWLAVNC
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