Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
The Republican State Leadership Committee (#RSLC) received tens of thousands of dollars each from corporations including #Comcast, #Intuit, #Wells #Fargo, #Amazon, #Bank of #America and #Google last year, analysis of IRS filings shows.
The contributions were made in the months after Politico published a leaked supreme court decision indicating that the court would end the right to nationwide abortion access.
Google contributed $45,000 to the RSLC after the leak of the draft decision, according to the CPA’s review of the tax filings.
Others contributed even more in the months after the leak, including Amazon ($50,000), Intuit ($100,000) and Comcast ($147,000).
The RSLC, which works to elect Republican lawmakers and promote #rightwing #policies at the state level, is at the top of a chain of spending and donations which eventually connected to rightwing candidates in North Carolina.
This type of spending, which relies on channeling money through various third-party groups from larger organizations, is a common part of modern political campaign financing.
"Companies need to know where their money is ending up". -- Bruce Freed of the #Center for #Political #Accountability
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