LinkedIn billionaire: Cut off funding for politicians who limit voting rights

[soothsayer]

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is urging business leaders to withhold economic support from politicians who seek to limit the right of any American citizen to vote.

"This should be a simple, single-issue reason to stop supporting any politician."

LinkedIn billionaire: Cut off funding for politicians who limit voting rights
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https://t.co/jz0OLMKmxP

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. OPPOSE Voting and 1st Amendment Rights? NO MONEY!

This should be a universal message to Republicans running for State and Federal office.

Support Democrats instead. They support Voting and 1st Amendment Rights. What can be so complicated?

[calimary]

17. THIS

[ck4829]

2. We can go further... propose that gross disparities in accessing polls be termed voter suppression

If you have to ban giving people water who are waiting in line to vote, then maybe that line shouldn't be that long.

[calimary]

16. Yep! Do that, too.

[Tommymac]

3. I know what I think needs to be cut off of authoritarian thugs...

but I'll keep it polite.

This is a breakthrough message - Billionaires don't want to see a country torn apart - bad for business.

And they know in a few years the majority of their customers AND clients are going to be POC.

We have just got to continue fight and hold the racist stupid in control until that happens.

[electric_blue68]

14. As the Dali Lama has said...

if you can't do the right things out of empathy and compassion... then do it for enlightened self interest.

Which is what you are pointing out.

[Tommymac]

18. Pretty smart guy.

Thanks!

[electric_blue68]

19. YW

[SergeStorms]

4. But this will always leave an opening...

for any unscrupulous billionaire - and there's no shortage of those - to say, "this is my chance to buy, and own, my very own Senator, or Representative to do my bidding." Getting the Captains of Industry to play as a team instead of being cutthroat individualists is 100 times worse than herding a pack of rabid Wolverines.
That's my take on it anyway.

[johnthewoodworker]

5. Republican/Nazis will never support democracy. We need to find, and stop supporting, donors.

[soothsayer]

6. Ban donors and give all contenders a pool of money to spend

[wnylib]

12. This.

[NullTuples]

7. Dear Sen McConnell, how is this any different than lobbyist who line your pockets?

Dear everyone else, it's kinda scary how much power the heads of industry hold in our so-called democracy.

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. "...a simple, single-issue reason..." for sure, but not the only one.

STARVE THE BEAST!!!

I might go looking for Nick Hanauer. I just realized how long it's been since we, or I, at least, have heard anything from the "renegade" billionaire.

[Cha]

9. Rt TY & Reid Hoffman!!

[Midnight Writer]

10. So far the opposite is proving true. ALEC doesn't pay for itself, and they are spearheading

voting suppression.

[turbinetree]

11. Yepper spot on................

[burrowowl]

13. Citizens United SC has got to go!

[calimary]

15. Now THERE'S an outfit worth strategizing about.

How to put ALEC out of business.

What could be done, and what/where are their vulnerabilities?