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Judd Legum
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1. These are the corporations backing Alabama's war on women:

@ATT
@exxonmobil
@pfizer
@Walmart
@Boeing
@StateFarm
@LillyPad
@CaterpillarInc
@KochIndustries
@DraftKings
@AltriaNews
@comcast
@CVSHealth
@AnheuserBusch

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@ATT @exxonmobil @pfizer @Walmart @Boeing @StateFarm @LillyPad @CaterpillarInc @KochIndustries @DraftKings @AltriaNews @comcast @CVSHealth @AnheuserBusch All of these companies have donated to Alabama's Republican legislative leadership:

Speaker Mac McCutcheon
Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter Senate President Will Ainsworth
Majority Leader Greg Reed
Bill sponsor Clyde Chambliss

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3. The same companies present themselves in public as champions of gender equality.

Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent promotes himself as a feminist dedicated to empowering women

At the same time, he's funneling money to politicians attacking women's rights

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4. It's all public record. These contributions are available from the Alabama Secretary of State. You just have to FOLLOW THE MONEY

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5. Let me know if you hear from any of these companies. Will they continue to support the Alabama politicians seeking to roll back women's rights? Is this consistent w/their corporate commitment to women's empowerment.

DMs open, email in bio.

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6. Corporations believe they can bankroll any politician without any consequences. That will be true until people create consequences. These companies rely on women as customers, employees and leaders.

How much hypocrisy is too much?

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7. UPDATE Corporate donors to @governorkayivey, who just signed a bill banning abortion even in cases of rape

@BCBSAssociation (BlueCross) (75K)
@ATT (113K)
@LillyPad (30K)
@StateFarm (10K)
@Boeing (10K)
@Walmart (7K)
@CocaCola (10K)
@exxonmobil (5K)
@comcast (21K)
@pfizer (5K)
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Judd Legum
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Yesterday I identified 6 companies who donated significant amounts to state politicians who have enacted abortion bans this year

@ATT ($196K)

@LillyPad [Eli Lilly] ($66K)

@Walmart ($57K)

@pfizer ($53K)

@CocaCola ($40K)

@Aetna ($26K)

So far none has responded

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@ATT @LillyPad @Walmart @pfizer @CocaCola @Aetna If you contact one of these companies and get a response, please let me know. My DMs are open and my email is in my bio.

If you work at one of these companies and want to help, please drop me a line.

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It's likely that if one company offers a response, they all will. Right now they are trying to keep their heads down and hope the controversy just blows over.

Time will tell if they are right.

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Judd Legum
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1. The New York Times wrote an entire article on the Trump campaign's Facebook ads without mentioning that Facebook has admitted the Trump campaign RAN HUNDREDS OF ADS THIS YEAR THAT VIOLATED FACEBOOK RULES

cc: @thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar

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@thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar 2. This is the problem with HORSE RACE JOURNALISM that emphasizes easy-to-compare metrics (who spent more on Facebook?) over exposing bad acts.

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@thomaskaplan @SarahAlmukhtar 3. Also ignored by the NYT: Facebook promised to hire THOUSANDS of people to manually review political ads.

But Facebook told me that it is relying on computer algorithms and no humans are reviewing Trump's ads prior to publication.

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Judd Legum
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CONTEXT: Messina is a corporate consultant for many of the companies that Warren wants to break up
Messina shouldn't be allowed back on MSNBC to criticize Elizabeth Warren until he discloses who his corporate clients are

According to his website, he has more than 70. Let's see a list.
BTW, "strategic consultant" is what you say when you are a lobbyist but you don't want to fill out the lobbyist disclosure
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