Thread by @JuddLegum

UPDATE: Facing calls for a boycott on social media, @pepsi is defending its 15K donation to the Texas GOP

Pepsi tells popular.info that it sent the check to the Texas GOP in the summer of 2020 but it wasn't cashed until August 2021

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@pepsi I contacted PepsiCo prior to publication but did not receive a response.

Since Pepsi is making an issue of the timing the check was sent (prior to the passage of the abortion ban), I've asked if they plan on making any changes to their political giving moving forward

@pepsi The other issue is that, if @pepsi objected to the fact that the Texas GOP was pushing through a draconian abortion ban, it could have canceled the check.

It chose not to.

As a result, the Texas GOP was able to cash the check on 8/5/21. Here is how it showed up on the filing.

As most people know, corporate checks expire within 90 or 180 days. @pepsi tells me, at some point, they did have to reissue the check to the Texas GOP.

But @pepsi declined to specify the date the check was originally sent or the date that it was reissued.

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