Phil Knight sinks another $1 million into the 2018 election

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Source: Oregonian

By Hillary Borrud

Nike co-founder Phil Knight is continuing to spend freely this election cycle, with a $1 million contribution to the Republican Governors Association.

Knight has already given a record-shattering $1.5 million directly to the Republican candidate for governor in Oregon, Knute Buehler, a lawmaker and orthopedic surgeon from Bend.

The association's communications director Jon Thompson said campaign cash "all goes in one pot" and the governor's association doesn't accept contributions with the understanding that they'll spend the money on a particular race.

However, the Republican Governors Association has reported giving a total of $962,000 to Buehler's campaign over the last couple months. The group disclosed Knight's contribution, which he made in August, in its latest quarterly filing with the IRS.

Read more: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/10/phil_knight_sinks_another_1_mi.html

[YessirAtsaFact]

1. Boycott Nike!

Hit him in the wallet

[Loki Liesmith]

3. Over a few million in contributions?

No

[Javaman]

5. yes, they are playing the american public.

they enjoy using Colin Kaepernick as their image, but at the same time pour money into the very party that disparages him.

so yes, a boycott is in order.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Who is "they"?

Phil Knight is retired from Nike and only holds an honorary title from the company.

[Javaman]

8. honorary or not, he's still associated with them.

parse it all you want.

we are done.

[Loki Liesmith]

9. So is Kap

Gonna boycott him too?

Now we’re done.

[bigbrother05]

2. Playing both ends against the middle, using Kap to polish corporate image

and backing the GOP to keep his tax cuts.

Perfect example of corporate morality, whatever makes a dime.

Knight built his company on the legend of Steve Prefontaine and makes billions on the sweat of Asian children.

edit for grammar

[2naSalit]

4. Never buy/own/wear their stuff anyway

Not even freebies and hand-me-downs.

[debsy]

6. About Nike (and other for-profit corporations):

For-profit corporations are ONLY about making profits. That's all it was about with Colin Kaepernick. Corporations aren't people. They are entities bound by law to deliver profits to shareholders, the rights of all others be damned. Granted, some corporations have a tendency to act somewhat more ethically than others (relatively speaking) but, when push comes to shove, the bottom line (aka $$$) always wins.

[turbinetree]

10. Fucking scum bag.........................he got his tax breaks...............and now he is trying

to buy a governorship...................Fuck You John Roberts and your fucking right wing court.....................

[Permanut]

11. Ah, yes, Phil Knight..

who made his billions by paying locals in Vietnam, China and Indonesia 80 cents to make a soccer ball, and selling it for 80 dollars. International capitalism at its best.

[Merlot]

12. Do all those republicans who cut up their nike logos know this?

I'm looking (and laughing) at you, ms. bono.

[JohnnyRingo]

13. Simply put, Phil Knight is a 21st century slave master.

I understand Knight no longer runs the company he founded, but his initial business model was to spend everything on endorsements while spending almost nothing on manufacture. This meant making his products in third world sweatshops by children who have no choice but to work for him. That's modern day slavery with a billionaire African American as an ironic slave master.

The reason the children have no choice is because families in the countries he uses have to all work in order to survive. Sure, a daughter can come home complaining she was abused by a floor supervisor, but quitting means the family may not eat that month. That may leave only prostitution as an option. It's so bad the workers burned down a factory in Indonesia and Nike gets constant fines in Vietnam for not paying minimum wage. All shoe companies make products in sweat shops, but Nike stands above all others in worker abuse.

I've boycotted the swoosh since the very beginning. It's not hard to just do it.