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If you work at a large tech company, won't you take a minute to go with me down the list of senators who just voted to confirm Kavanaugh?
John Barrasso of Wyoming, who is up for election this year, voted to confirm Kavanaugh. He has received $5,000 from Amazon and $9,000 from Google for his campaign. (Note that the maximum allowable is $10K)
Roy Blunt of Missouri, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $1000 from Amazon.
Lamar Alexander, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received a $2,500 campaign donation from Facebook. When Facebook employees are done silently protesting their chief lobbyist's attendance at the Kavanaugh hearing, they might want to silently protest this.
Richard Burr, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $1000 from Facebook
Shelley Moore Capito, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $1000 each from Facebook and Amazon
Bill Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $2500 from Amazon.
Bob Corker, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $2,500 from Facebook.
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John Cornyn, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $10,000 from Amazon and $2,500 from Salesforce.
Mike Crapo, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, received $10,000 from Amazon.
Ted Cruz, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh and is in a hotly contested Senate race in Texas, received $3,000 from Amazon and $6,000 from Google.
Mike Enzi of Wyoming, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,000 from Facebook.
Joni Ernst of Iowa, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,000 from Amazon.
Deb Fischer, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $3,500 from Amazon, $7,500 from Google, and $2,500 from Facebook. Deb with the trifecta!
Jeff Flake, the Hamlet of the Senate who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,000 from Facebook and $6,500 from Google.
Cory Gardner, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,000 from Salesforce and $2,500 from Facebook.
Lindsey Graham, who charmed audiences with his vocal defense of Kavanaugh, and voted to confirm him, got $1,000 from Google.
Orrin Hatch, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $7,000 from Facebook, $5,000 from Google, $10,000 from Amazon, and $5,000 from Salesforce
Dean Heller of Nevada, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $3,500 from Facebook, $2,500 from Salesforce, $7,500 from Amazon and $2,500 from Google.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Amazon.
James Inhofe, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,000 each from Amazon and Google
Johnny Isakson of Georgia, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Amazon and $1,000 from Google.
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,000 from Google.
John Kennedy, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,000 from Amazon.
James Lankford, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh (and is one of the most virulently anti-LGBT men in Congress) got $2,500 from Facebook.
Mike Lee of Utah, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $5,000 from Amazon, $2,000 from Google, and $5,000 from Salesforce.
(If you're wondering why Apple doesn't appear in this thread, it's because Apple doesn't have a corporate PAC. They are proof by example that there is zero need for any tech company to make direct political donations. Motivated employees could shut these PACS down on Monday.)
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook, $1,000 from Google, and $2,500 from Twitter. This was the only political donation Twitter's hashpac made in calendar 2017. They made it right after the Muslim ban.
Rand Paul, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got the maximum $10,000 donation from Google.
David Perdue, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook.
Rob Portman, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,000 from Amazon.
Jim Risch, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook and $2,000 from Google.
Mike Rounds, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook and $1,000 from Google.
Marco Rubio, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook and $1,500 from Google.
Ben Sasse, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $3,000 from Google and $2,500 from Facebook.
Tim Scott, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $1,500 from Google.
Dan Sullivan, the one Alaskan senator who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook.
John Thune, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Salesforce and $2,000 from Facebook.
Thom Tillis, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 from Facebook.
Pat Toomey, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $3,000 from Amazon.
Roger Wicker, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $2,500 each from Amazon and Facebook.
Todd Young, who voted to confirm Kavanaugh, got $3,500 from Salesforce and $7,500 from Facebook. Facebook really likes you, Todd, even though you voted to defund Planned Parenthood and oppose the DREAM Act.
Steve Daines, who was absent from voting but paired his 'yes' vote against Murkowski's 'no' in a time-honored and corrupt Senate tradition, got $1,000 from Google, $2,500 from Facebook, and $1,000 from Amazon.
If you work at one of these companies, I have two requests for you today. The first is to go in on Monday, speak with your coworkers, and together demand that this political giving stop. It doesn't reflect your values, it isn't necessary, and it's done in your name. Resist it.
My second request is that you take a portion of your very big tech paycheck and give it to 13 House candidates who refuse to take corporate money, from your employer or anyone else, and who will reform this corrupt and shameful system once and for all. secure.actblue.com/donate/great_s…
(Mad thanks to my librarian girlfriend for coming up with the idea for this thread, and doing the hard work in assembling it. Behind every beautifully curated set of data, there's always a librarian.)
Here is the list of tech company giving to senators who voted for Kavanaugh in spreadsheet form, including political spending from Microsoft, eBay, Cisco, Oracle and Intel docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
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