After January 6 riot, major credit agency donated to Republican objectors
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After the deadly riot at the United States Capitol on January 6, dozens of companies suspended donations to the 147 Republicans who tried to overturn the presidential election. Many others paused all their political giving. Experian, one of the three major credit agencies, took a different approach.
Sigh. Yet another consumer-oriented relationship I will severe.
Today I will be cancelling my "subscription" to Experian which allowed me to monitor my credit scores.
I will be (publicly) informing Experian that my decision to NOT continue to engage financially with them is based entirely on THIER decision to financially support the NRSC in it's efforts to decieve the public as a step toward it's goal of weakening our shared democracy.
It would be nice, not that you don’t have enough to do..to have a direct email or address to the correct department so it can be passed on. For those who want to complain.
Even more evidence that campaign finance law needs to be revised. If we can't limit the spending, we need to see the spending in near real time. Give the donors 3 business days to report and the recipients the same amount of time to report. Oh, and eliminate dark money completely. 100% visibility of all corporate and personal donations to, and spending by, any organization that engages in political speech.
Sounds about right. I've always struggled to keep Experian accurate and with slow to no results. Change can't come soon enough for this and the other two agencies who control our buying/ loaning power!
Having just done a HELOC followed by a home refinance (part of which involved paying off what was left of the HELOC), I can say I'd be more than happy to see the various private credit rating agencies replaced by a single government entity with more transparency and (a sine qua non) better cybersecurity.
My wife and I had to create multiple credit agency freezes after Equifax allowed its servers to be breached by hackers. Then, of course, any time we applied for credit we had to unfreeze and then refreeze one or more of them depending on which ones the lender was using. It's a "first world problem," to be sure, but still a problem.
Wow. This is an amazing bit of information, Judd. Even though my own emotions have taken huge hits in the T years, I still continue to believe we need to keep ourselves informed and truly appreciate what you share with us. But, most people I know who would want to know this are too depressed and shattered to read anymore. When the pandemic is over, I will have more one on one chances to share this sort of information. Phone calls and forwarding are not as effective as being there. Keep up the good work. I do still talk to enough people that can handle at least a little bit at a time.
Sigh. Yet another consumer-oriented relationship I will severe.
Today I will be cancelling my "subscription" to Experian which allowed me to monitor my credit scores.
I will be (publicly) informing Experian that my decision to NOT continue to engage financially with them is based entirely on THIER decision to financially support the NRSC in it's efforts to decieve the public as a step toward it's goal of weakening our shared democracy.
I am not surprised by this move. While it's only $15,000 it speaks to the problem with corporations having their hands in a receptive pocket.
Yes they could have asked for the donation back, but I doubt if they will.
Judd get your free credit score from them today. Make sure in a few weeks they haven't cracked your score. I don't trust these people one iota.
This is a big story, thank you. Looking forward to follow up
It would be nice, not that you don’t have enough to do..to have a direct email or address to the correct department so it can be passed on. For those who want to complain.
Even more evidence that campaign finance law needs to be revised. If we can't limit the spending, we need to see the spending in near real time. Give the donors 3 business days to report and the recipients the same amount of time to report. Oh, and eliminate dark money completely. 100% visibility of all corporate and personal donations to, and spending by, any organization that engages in political speech.
Sounds about right. I've always struggled to keep Experian accurate and with slow to no results. Change can't come soon enough for this and the other two agencies who control our buying/ loaning power!
Having just done a HELOC followed by a home refinance (part of which involved paying off what was left of the HELOC), I can say I'd be more than happy to see the various private credit rating agencies replaced by a single government entity with more transparency and (a sine qua non) better cybersecurity.
My wife and I had to create multiple credit agency freezes after Equifax allowed its servers to be breached by hackers. Then, of course, any time we applied for credit we had to unfreeze and then refreeze one or more of them depending on which ones the lender was using. It's a "first world problem," to be sure, but still a problem.
Wow. This is an amazing bit of information, Judd. Even though my own emotions have taken huge hits in the T years, I still continue to believe we need to keep ourselves informed and truly appreciate what you share with us. But, most people I know who would want to know this are too depressed and shattered to read anymore. When the pandemic is over, I will have more one on one chances to share this sort of information. Phone calls and forwarding are not as effective as being there. Keep up the good work. I do still talk to enough people that can handle at least a little bit at a time.