Republican Election Objectors Got $36 MILLION From Corporate America Last Year

Corporations proudly proclaimed that they wouldn't give any more money to Republican election objectors following the January 6th insurrection. That pledge lasted a hot minute before the corporate wallets opened up again, and a new analysis found that corporate PACs funded by Fortune 500 companies gave more than $36 million to those same Republicans last year alone. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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Remember shortly after the January 6th, 2021 insurrection when all those major corporations that had been in the pockets of Republicans for years finally came out and said, okay, listen, because of the insurrection, we are not gonna give another dime to any of these politicians that voted not to certify the 2020 election electoral college results. We are done with these people. We wash our hands of you go to hell.

Remember that?

They didn't add the little go to hell part, but I did for effect. Well, turns out that didn't last too long and we actually talked about this a couple weeks after they made that pledge because it literally took only a matter of weeks for many of these corporations to reverse their pledge to not give to these Republicans, and they started giving more and more and more. But now that the dust has settled on the 2022 midterm elections, we now have the final amount that these corporations who swore off these election denying Republicans, we know what they gave to these election denying Republicans. And it was a grand total of 36.3 million for the 2022 midterm elections. These are Fortune 500 companies. These are the super pacs that they run and contribute to. And of course they're go going to the 147 Republicans who refuse to vote to certify the 2020 election, the very same 147 Republicans that these same corporations said, I am never giving you another dollar.

Don't come begging me for money. No sir. I am walking out that door and I am not coming back. And then five seconds later, Hey, hey, it's me again. Do you want some money? Cuz I need a favor. That's what happened. $36.3 million and these corporations need to be called out. So let's call 'em out. This is from the hill. At and t was the top company donor to the 147 Republicans in the 2022 election cycle, giving roughly $630,000. According to the analysis, the telecom giant briefly suspended donations to the election objectors in response to the Capitol attack. It's followed by Home Depot with $478,000. Lockheed Martin with $440,000 up p s with $411,000 and Boeing with $392,000. Comcast, which previously paused donations to the elect election objectors to review its political giving policies and practices donated $382,000. So Home Depot, yeah, we get it. Uh, you're owned by a right wing idiot.

At and t of course you're a telecom. You need special favors from the government all the time. So that's why you're giving money. Lockheed Martin and Boeing. Do I even need to explain why they keep giving money. And then of course ups, we send a lot of things in this country. The United States government sends a lot of things. You want those, uh, contracts. So you give lots of money and that's what this is about. The money these people give to these politicians isn't because by God I love your policies. They don't care about the policy. What they care about is what they can get out of that individual. They care about their contracts, they care about their tax breaks, which I guess you qualify as policy, but that's the only policy they care about. They want their special favors. They want that quid pro quo, that tip for tat. They wanna make sure that they pay off just the right people to get everything they need. It doesn't matter if we said we'll never give you another dollar. At the end of the day, we need our political favors, and that to us is more valuable than protecting the sanctity of our democracy.