BREAKING: Microsoft to address its track record of awful political giving by... renaming its PAC to "the Microsoft Corporation Stakeholders Voluntary PAC (MSVPAC)." to "capture the fact that it is funded exclusively by voluntary donations of Microsoft stakeholders".
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Remember—Microsoft donated to WV Attorney General Patrick Morrisey a week AFTER he filed suit to throw out the 2020 Presidential election results. These new self-imposed limits would not prevent Microsoft from donating to him again. The PAC (whatever its rebranded name) must die.
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Microsoft listened to its employees' concerns about bankrolling sedition and responded by inserting a "V" into MSPAC. I think we all know what it stands for.pic.twitter.com/gA7IbLBDHN
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Link to Microsoft's public statement on political giving here:https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/02/05/changes-to-political-giving/ …
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* correction— I see in the full MS statement (I was working from extracts) that they've extended their self-imposed hiatus to state officials as well, presumably including Morrisey. Since these limits are easy to skirt by donating to parties and other PACs, I see this as cosmetic
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it's gonna take a hell of a pizza party to fix this one
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It took me until this point before I realized you weren't making a joke.
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