Steve King boycott update

[rydra_wong]

AT&T have now definitely ended their support for Steve King, no more "re-evaluating" for the future (source).

Still remaining:

Pinboard: Now that Intel, Purina, AT&T, Land O'Lakes, Smithfield, Black Hills Energy and the NRCC have dropped Steve King, his last significant donors are @Koch_Industries, @ValeroEnergy, Berkshire Hathaway, and @CrystalSugarCo. Curious to hear from them about their corporate values.

As has been pointed out, it's utter bullshit that all these companies are pretending that they just suddenly this second noticed that Steve King is a white supremacist who hangs out with and endorses Nazis and has done for years.

This is happening because of public pressure, and the public pressure is working. So if you can tweet at or e-mail the companies still supporting King, that'd be a good thing.

In related news, the Great Slate (which includes Steve King's opponent J.D. Scholten) has more matching funds.

Comments

[ride_4ever]

I didn't know until now about The Great Slate. TYK. *goes off to donate*

[rydra_wong]

They are so awesome!

Six out of their thirteen races are now polling within the margin of error:

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1057409369481064449

Since they all started out as long-shot races that were getting minimal national Democratic support because they weren't seen as having decent odds, this is WILD.

And the margin-of-error races include J.D Scholten (running against Steve King) and Alyse Galvin (running against nasty racist Don Young in Alaska).

If you have spare cash and would like to make some last-minute donations, I can also recommend checking out the Donate Save America slate (data-crunched to find the races where donations will make the most difference!). It also has excellent people like Kathleen Williams, running in Montana against Greg Gianforte (the one who beat up a journalist).

[ride_4ever]

Got it!