While it’s normal for prominent businessmen to donate on both sides of the political aisle, so that whoever wins an election, they can call in some favors, as the Republican Party continues to slide to the right Some of the supported candidates deserve a little more scrutiny than usual.
As axios report, the race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 27th district — part of the city of Los Angeles — is expected to end Tuesday after Rep. Mike Garcia won by just 333 votes in the 2020 election. His rival this week (as in 2020) is Democrat Christy Smith, and to help the incumbent cross the line, three wealthy donors have presented Garcia with $50,000.
One of those three donors is Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who runs a company that has done so employed a Bush-era torture apologist and a “bully” of the Trump administration. “No other gaming manager has made a campaign contribution of this magnitude this cycle,” he said axios report clears, in case you are wondering about the scope and context of this donation. While $50,000 is the legal limit for individual donations, Kotick has done so used workarounds to donate much larger sums to Republican candidates in the past. In March, a spokesman for Activision’s CEO said: “has given nearly the same amount to Democrats and Republicans over the past five years“.
Garcia’s campaign and Kotick’s endorsement deserve special scrutiny because, like so many of Republicans in 2022, he’s not just a conservative guy. Garcia, A MAGA pendantHe was one of 139 congressmen who died in January 2021, even after witnessing the Jan. 6 Capitol violence. voted to appeal the results of the bi-state Presidential Electoral Collegepractically protesting the Democratic election of President Joe Biden and giving what is considered his “tacit support‘ to an uprising.
I know I’ve been watching the Republican Party for almost two years slowly slipping into a neo-fascist abyss has somewhat taken the sting out of itbut take just a second to note that the Activision Blizzard CEO spent $50,000 to support a man who spoke out against Trump’s impeachment on Jan. 6: “pursued draconian restrictions on women’s reproductive health and freedoms‘ and thinks that the FBI’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s property in Mar-a-Lago ‘literal tyranny of a majority acting like a Third Reich right now“.
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Kotick’s tenure as CEO has been marred by historic abuse allegations Sexual harassment, leading to major lawsuits and regulatory investigations into behavior at several of the company’s studios.
