Companies That Publicly Opposed Voter Suppression Continue to Fund Voter Suppression Group
August 9th, 2021
At least seven companies that signed the statement also donated this year to the Republican State Leadership Committee (RLSC), the primary fundraising organization for state GOP candidates, which is advocating for voting restrictions. Biogen, Facebook, General Motors, Google, VMWare, and law firms Holland & Knight and the McGuireWoods political action committee all gave to the RSLC in 2021, according to recently released tax records covering the first six months of this year.
Google’s State Policy Manager, Joe Dooley, was listed as an attendee of the RSLC “election integrity” working group meeting. To be a member of the group, Alphabet subsidiary Google Energy, which produces and sells clean energy, gave $20,000 to the RSLC in February, preceded by Google Inc.’s $10,000 on Jan. 5.