77 Right Wing Oligarchs Want to Finish the Job

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35. One reason is that while he may be a Democrat, his buddy from Chicago, Republican Pete Ricketts, is in the Senate, his

state of Nebraska's governors have all been Republican, his brother was a four term Republican congress person.

He may be registered as a Democrat, but he lives, invests, and fails to support the Democratic Party in any substantial way in his state. I'm sure he's got a guilty conscience, but he worships mammon and Republican values more than he loves the freedom of women.

Top Warren Buffett Stocks By Size

At the end of March, these were the top stocks in Berkshire's portfolio by number of shares:

Bank of America (BAC), 1.03 billion
Apple (AAPL), 789.4 million
Coca-Cola (KO), 400 million
Kraft Heinz (KHC), 325.6 million
Occidental Petroleum (OXY), 248 million
American Express (AXP), 151.6 million
Chevron (CVX), 122.9 million
Nu Holdings (NU), Liberty Media (LSXMA) and Citigroup (C) help to round out the top holdings.

https://www.investors.com/research/warren-buffett-stocks/

Finally, Warren's stock holdings invest in Republican candidates. Those corporations got us to the Dobbs decision.

Take Alabama, one of the 44 states with a full ban on abortion. Here's a map of the other problematic states, Buffett's state being one.
https://www.guttmacher.org/2023/01/six-months-post-roe-24-us-states-have-banned-abortion-or-are-likely-do-so-roundup

These corporations DONATE to the Alabama politicians who ban the majority of their state from any abortions for any reason.

-- Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent, Atlanta, GA
-- AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson, Dallas, TX
-- Exxon Mobile CEO Darren Woods, Irving, TX
-- Pfizer Albert Bourla and Ian Read, New York, NY
-- Walmart Greg Penner and Doug McMillon,Bentonville, AR
-- Boeing Dennis Muilenburg - Chicago, IL
-- State Farm Michael Tipsord - Bloomington, IL
-- Eli Lilly David A. Ricks, Joshua Smiley, Indianapolis, IN
-- Caterpillar Jim Umpleby, Deerfield, IL

-- The rest:

Koch Industries, Witchita, KS -- run by the supposedly libertarian Koch brothers, donated $2,500 to Ainsworth, $1,500 to Chambliss, $1,500 to Ledbetter, and $2,000 to Reed.

Fantasy sports site Draft Kings -- Boston, MA -- donated $5,000 to McCutcheon, and $500 to Ainsworth.

Tobacco-maker Altria -- Henrico County, Virginia -- Howard Willard -- donated $1,000 to Chambliss, and $500 to Reed.

Cable provider Comcast -- Tupelo, MS -- Ralph J. Roberts -- donated $2,500 to McCutcheon.

Health insurance giant Caremark -- Birmingham, AL and Northbrook, IL -- donated $1,500 to McCutcheon.

Anheuser-Busch -- St. Louis, MO -- Michael Doukeris -- donated $1,000 to McCutcheon, and $1,500 to Reed.

DONATION UPDATE From Judd Legum, the corporate contributors to Governor Ivey herself (per tweet) :

Judd Legum
@JuddLegum

These corporations back @GovernorKayIvey, who signed the abortion ban into law

@BCBSAssociation (BlueCross) (75K)
@ATT (113K)
@LillyPad (30K)
@StateFarm (10K)
@Boeing (10K)
@Walmart (7K)
@CocaCola (10K)
@exxonmobil (5K)
@comcast (21K)
@pfizer (5K)