Roger Marshall in 2017: "Just like Jesus said, ‘The poor will always be with us,’… There is a group of people that just don’t want health care and aren’t going to take care of themselves. Just, like, homeless people. …morally, spiritually, socially…don’t want health care.”
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Did Google give to Marshall? No, of course not, that would be unseemly! They gave $5,000 on June 26 to Point PAC, whose only funding recipient in 2018 was Roger Marshall.pic.twitter.com/TBYS4cgXoM
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Here's Google's $5,000 donation to Texas Republicans United PAC, which in 2018 gave a broad slate of House republicans and one Senate candidate, Martha McSally, another strong opponent of LGBT rightspic.twitter.com/O8eTVqnGUO
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Tim Walberg, speaking before Family Research Council (designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) has called Americans “slaves” to “sexual perversion.” Google gave this anti-LGBT activist $500 on June 26pic.twitter.com/IglhUrJZPh
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Google gave $2,000 to Heartland Values PAC, John Thune's leadership PAC, on June 26. This entity gave $215,000 entirely to Republican candidates for Federal office in 2018.pic.twitter.com/ke2v9fiCKQ
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Also on June 26, Google gave $2,500 to Mike Lee, who you may remember is one of the two senators who put a hold on aid to dying 9/11 first responders this week. Lee is also a ferocious opponent of same-sex marriage, in keeping with the
#pride theme.pic.twitter.com/pNvV8qbKDA
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Google gave $5,000 to Eye of the Tiger PAC, Steve Scalise's leadership PAC, which made $1.1M in donations to Republican candidates last year. Eye of the Tiger PAC is notably one of the only remaining PACs that gives to Steve King, the overtly white supremacist Congressman.pic.twitter.com/KyVak8QnHf
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Google gave $2,500 to Ken Buck (disclosure: I fundraised in 2018 for Buck's opponent, as well as Steve King's), who has said "I think birth has an influence over [being gay], like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice." So did Google.pic.twitter.com/AOgMifxuaV
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And finally, Google made a $2,500 donation to Alamo PAC, John Cornyn's leadership PAC, which gave $345,000 in 2018 exclusively to Republican candidates. Cornyn is also the Senator who (with Ted Cruz) nominated a Federal justice who said trans kids are "part of Satan's plan"pic.twitter.com/kapbQ5N5i0
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Some remarks about these donations. First, they are wholly unnecessary. Google runs an enormous D.C. lobbying organization and throwing a few thousand dollars at candidates changes nothing. Apple and IBM prove you don't need a PAC to thrive as a giant U.S. tech company.
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These are hard to read. I remember being a fresh immigrant and being wholly confused about what I was being asked to support, luckily I ignored it.
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I asked what netpac would support and was expecting an answer like "aligned with the EFF". They told me they couldn't give a specific answer, so I said no thanks.
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I will add that being a progressive I think this is an ethical fail, but even if you were a Machiavellian it's *still* a fail. How is Google's reputation with the lunatic right (aka 95% of them these days) working out?
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