Corporations gave heaps of cash to GOP after vowing to punish them for Capitol riot

[turbinetree]

By Josh Israel -April 20, 2021 4:21 PM
Several promised to freeze or reevaluate donations to lawmakers who rejected President Joe Biden's electors.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who voted to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election, is in charge of his party's effort to regain a majority in the Senate. Despite his attempts to throw out President Joe Biden's electors, several corporate PACs gave tens of thousands last quarter to his group — including some PACs that pledged not to.

The National Republic Senatorial Committee, which Scott chairs, disclosed its finances on Tuesday for the first three months of 2021 to the Federal Election Commission. It reported receiving more than $750,000 in contributions from political action committees associated with corporations and trade associations.

According to research by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, several of those PACs had been critical of Scott and other Republican lawmakers who voted on Jan. 6 against accepting Biden's victory. Some had promised to pause their PAC giving; others explicitly vowed to stop funding those legislators:

https://americanindependent.com/corporations-gave-heaps-of-cash-to-gop-after-vowing-to-punish-them-for-capitol-riot/

[Midnight Writer]

1. I hate to say I told you so...

Corporations and oligarchs are not our friends.

[ananda]

2. Hardly surprising, then, eh...

I was finding their come to vote moment a bit
disingenuous.

They just didn't want to deal with boycotts.

And yet they still don't want to be taxed or
regulated more than anything.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. While The Duplicity Is There...

...it seems we should know how much these same corporations gave to dems.
While zero should be zero, when they said zero, if this is a big reduction and added money went to D's, it changes my overall opinion.
But, that's not in the article.