Amazon funnels money to 9 election deniers

Fresno CA

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On Wednesday, Gizmodo reported that online retail giant Amazon has quietly begun resuming contributions to Republicans who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election — despite their pledge in the wake of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that they would not do so going forward. "Last year, in a public stand following January 6th, Amazon pledged to stop its corporate PAC contributions to politicians who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election," reported Lauren Leffer. "'Given the unacceptable attempt to undermine a legitimate democratic process, the Amazon PAC has suspended contributions to any Member of Congress who voted to override the results of the US Presidential election,' the company wrote back in January 2021. Amazon made that promise along with multiple other tech leviathans." "But now, the company has quietly re-started funneling money to election denying House members," said the report. "Amazon’s political action committee sent at least $17,500 total to nine different such GOP Representatives in just the month of September, as first reported by Judd Legum on his news site Popular Information."