Meanwhile at Facebook, they were so impressed with Dan Sullivan's victory in the Alaska Senate race that they rushed to give him a $2,500 for his primary in 2026.pic.twitter.com/dcaq1s2CCC
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Microsoft donated $1000 to the Promoting our Republican Team PAC on December 17. Recipients of that PAC's largesse include Donald Trump, Kelly Loeffler, Jim Jordan, and Mitch McConnell.pic.twitter.com/7nRfEJxNEh
On December 17, Microsoft gave $2500 to Cynthia Lummis's leadership PAC (Steer PAC). Lummis was one of eight senators to vote on January 6 to reject the Electoral College vote.pic.twitter.com/8oeqOs3nSA
Uniquely among the big tech companies, Microsoft extends its legal corruption down to the state level. It gave the Kentucky Republican House caucus a $1250 donation on December 17pic.twitter.com/jfHllCFZ70
Microsoft donated $1000 to the campaign of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrissey on December 17, eight days after Morrissey filed suit in the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the presidential election.https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/ag-patrick-morrisey-wv-to-join-tx-election-irregularities-lawsuit-at-u-s-supreme-court/ …
So when Brad Smith spoke in front of employees on January 21, he did so in the full knowledge that Microsoft had made yet-to-be-disclosed political donations to key figures working to overturn the results of the recent Presidential election.
His defense boils down to two points—everyone has to do this to get their calls answered (this is not true; Apple and IBM do fine without a political action committee). And 'we have to do this to help protect our employees against policies that the people we donate to enact.'
Political giving by the tech monopolies is immoral, indefensible, and in the case of the 147 Republicans who voted to subvert our recent election; un-American. It's up to employees at those companies now to push for their bosses to follow Apple and IBM's lead and abolish the PACs
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