π³πAmazon President Jeff Bezos maximized his gift to hostile to LGBTQ Congressperson Cory Gardner.
As indicated by Government Decision Commission filings, Bezos and his significant other MacKenzie each gave the lawful most extreme of $5400 to the Colorado Republican.
A representative for Amazon affirmed the gifts however did not clarify them. Eight other Amazon administrators additionally gave to Gardner's battle.
Gardner has a past filled with contradicting LGBTQ uniformity. In HRC's latest Congressional Scorecard, he got a score of 12 out of a conceivable 100.
The main enactment he voted in favor of that HRC upheld was the McCain and Coons Revision to a movement charge that would have given a few Visionaries a way to citizenship.
Gardner declined to co-support LGBTQ enactment like the Equity Demonstration and the Helpful Extortion Counteractive action Act (to boycott transformation treatment) and casted a ballot for against LGBTQ Trump organization deputies like Secretary of Instruction Betsy DeVos and Lawyer General Jeff Sessions.
In 2007, as an individual from the state place of delegates, Gardner casted a ballot against enabling gay and lesbian couples to receive. He additionally contradicted enactment to make domain arranging simpler for same-sex couples and casted a ballot against restricting working environment segregation dependent on sexual introduction.
He additionally restricts marriage balance.
Both CNBC and INTO refer to Amazon's enthusiasm for working together in Colorado and Gardner's help for tech charges Amazon bolstered as explanations behind the gifts.
For instance, Gardner was a key supporter of the DIGIT Demonstration, a bill that would make a government warning advisory group with contribution from tech enterprises about gadgets that associate with the web. Amazon has burned through $3 million campaigning for this bill.
A year ago, HRC gave its National Uniformity Grant to Jeff Bezos, whose organization has for quite some time been one of the better partnerships for LGBTQ workers and who additionally gave $2.5 million to help pass marriage fairness in the territory of Washington.
Corporate help for fairness is frequently shallow. Enterprises put their budgetary advantages over the interests of equivalent rights, and hostile to LGBTQ Republicans can be better for an organization's main concern.
Land O'Lakes' gifts to a racial oppressor, however, prompted calls for blacklist a week ago, demonstrating that immediate monetary interests can in some cases be exceeded by conceivable harm to an organization's image.
Bezos' gift to an enemy of LGBTQ Republican is probably not going to mix a similar shock.
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