1. This is a cute tweet but if @BurgerKing really supports LGBTQ+ rights maybe the @BurgerKing Franchisee PAC should stop donating so much money to so many members of Congress THAT RECEIVED A ZERO RATING FROM @HRC.
@BurgerKing@HRC 2. In the 2020 cycle, the @BurgerKing Franchisee PAC donated $113,500 to 31 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WITH A ZERO RATING ON @HRC's CONGRESSIONAL SCORECARD.
Now @BurgerKing is trying to position itself as a champion of LGBTQ rights.
3. I'm going to be publishing an in-depth piece on corporate hypocrisy during pride month in my newsletter very soon.
It looks at corporate PAC donations to anti-LGBTQ politicians at the federal & state level
4. @BurgerKing Franchisee PAC also donated to Lauren Boebert and Tommy Tuberville in the 2020 cycle. They are new and haven't been scored by HRC. So I didn't include them in the count of 31 Republicans in the tweet above. But I have a pretty good idea of where they will end up.
1. 25 major companies that sponsor Pride parades, and turn their Twitter avatars into rainbows and present themselves as champions of LGBTQ rights have donated more than $10 million to anti-gay politicians in the last two years
3. @CVSHealth, for example, has turned their Twitter avatar into a rainbow heart
It also donated 4K to two sponsors of a TX bill to change the state’s child abuse law to make it a crime for parents to allow kids to receive gender-affirming medical care
1. On May 31, Texas Republicans were fully prepared to pass a sweeping voter suppression bill
But the bill failed because House Democrats walked out, denying the GOP a quorum
The GOP will take the bill up again in a special session
But something EXTRAORDINARY is happening
2. Republicans are COMPLETELY UNPREPARED to defend the substance of the bill and are abandoning major provisions.
First, the GOP claimed the ban on Sunday voting before 1PM was a typo
This isn't credible because they defended the ban as the bill was debated
But its OUT
3. Now Republicans are scrapping a provision to allow Texas judges to void an election based on thin evidence of fraud (w/o regard to whether the alleged fraud changed the result)
A chief House sponsor of the bill now calls the provision "horrendous"!
2. First, let's talk about what Trump said. After E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a dressing room in the mid-90s, Trump claimed he never met Carroll, accused her of lying to sell books, & suggested she was conspiring w/the Democratic Party
1. Manchin's rationale for opposing the For The People Act, which would thwart state efforts to undermine voting rights, underscores the central role of the @USChamber.
Manchin is essentially quoting the Chamber's talking points
3. The @USChamber is engaged in an aggressive lobbying campaign against federal action to protect voting rights that is financed by the same corporations who say they support voting rights.
1. A constellation of obscure websites — populated with content stolen from outlets like @Politico, @Axios, & @BuzzFeedNews — has played a significant role in the fundraising success of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Josh Hawley, and other Republicans