Amazon gave $5000 to Louisiana Representative Mike Johnson's "American Revival PAC" on December 17. Johnson voted to overturn the election three weeks later.pic.twitter.com/qTQWmZKzPI
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Finally, Amazon gave $1000 to Tennessee representative Tim Burchett's "Volunteer Issues PAC" on December 17. Burchett voted to overturn the Presidential election on January 6.pic.twitter.com/8deYhytbhH
Why is it that when we look in the pockets of these seditionists, we find so many checks from Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google? (I covered the other tech companies' support of sedition in an earlier thread https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1356427194810081280 …)
There's nothing compelling these tech companies to continue participating in this employee funded form of legalized bribery. Apple and IBM don't have a PAC, and they seem to cling to life despite their refusal to "pay to play". These PACs could (and should) disappear tomorrow
But the tech company leadership knows that they can simply brazen it out. Witness Microsoft president Brad Smith's remarks last month, where he just openly says that his company is paying for access and special treatment by giving to legislatorshttps://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1352487435242926080 …
Ultimately, this is in the hands of employees. Workers have the power defund the PAC. The FEC filings are public, and you can talk to coworkers who pay into this corrupt system (by paycheck deduction), and make sure they know where their money went.
[A final technical note on these donations: there's a two year cycle to corporate political giving, which is why so many of the donations in this thread (made after the eleection) were to legislators' leadership PACs instead of individual candidates.
This 2 year cycle also means that promises these companies made to suspend political giving to seditionists are cynical and empty. The period we're in now is the deadest time of the political cycle for corporate giving. The promise to "suspend" for a while means nothing at all.]
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