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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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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
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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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