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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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.
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.
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 …
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
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.
just curious but do you know how these contributions are decided? is it like, one person's job or a board or something?
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