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Joseph Mangano's avatar

Telecom companies are well-represented herein. I wonder how many of these vociferous anti-LGBTQ legislators are also opponents of net neutrality.

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Robert Petris's avatar

I am not an AT&T employee however, I am married to a gay 20-year​ AT&T employee. Your article lists 2.75M political donations to anti-LGBT lawmakers​ between in 2017-18. Per Open Secrets AT&T contributed 5M to individual candidates 2.8M to Dems and 2.1M to Repubs. 24 out of the top 25 top recipients​ were Dem candidates. These names are from anti-LGBT​. (https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recips.php?id=D000000076&cycle=2018) Your math is not adding up. In 2016 the top individual recipients were #1 Hillary Clinton $345,794; #2 Bernie Sanders $82,407. AT&T does a lot for the LGBT community that is not in the spotlight. Such as working with their state lobbyist to bat ban bathroom or religious freedom bills before the bill even gets a vote in committee. Signing on to a "friend of the court" brief that will be filed (7/3/19 with the U.S. Supreme Court in a trio of cases that may determine whether LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under existing federal civil rights laws – which prohibit sex discrimination in contexts ranging from the employment to housing, health care and education.

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