It's remarkable how little it takes to get on the radar of a Congressional representative.

afaik the limit is $5,000 per election, or x2 $2500 payments. the total political spending from google is closer to several hundred thousand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United...

The donations are capped by law at $5,000 per candidate+election (so typically a corporate PAC can give $10,000 to a congressional or senate candidate).

The amounts are not as important as the fact that Google's name is attached to them. But I agree with you that the overall figure is tiny, which makes it more mysterious why Google continues to make these donations, which amount to legalized bribery.

IBM and Apple do fine without a corporate PAC. Microsoft suspended its own PAC after strong internal pressure from employees over donations to some of the same terrible people.

Isn't there a cap of something like $4000 for any political donation?

@Pinboard's politics are... not secret.

I don't know why you're being down voted, that's all that is showing up.

This guy seems to have a particular beef.

Yeah so far from what I've seen all the big tech companies PAC's give with roughly 50/50 distribution of funds between left and right wing politicians. Whether that is good or bad is up to your own judgement. Personally I stopped donating to my company's PAC because I want more control of who my donations go to, but from what I've seen the corporate PAC's are all pretty well balanced.