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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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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so he's not a state official?
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See my correction at bottom of thread—he is a state official, but when I tweeted this I hadn't seen the moratorium was extended beyond members of Congress
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