New York.
three grains American companies, Including the well-known Marriott hotel chain, are going to suspend their donations to Republican lawmakers who this week tried to curb Joe Biden’s confirmation as the next president.
The three communicated their decision in the digital bulletin Public Information, which contacted 144 companies that have given to any of the eight senators who opposed the appointment of Biden for an alleged electoral fraud on the same day that these complaints, repeated without evidence by Donald Trump, They led supporters of the outgoing president to storm the Capitol.
Marriott, the medical insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield and the banking group Commerce Bancshares assured that they will suspend their donations to these politicians, according to information published this Sunday by Public Information.
A Marriott spokesman told the media that the decision takes into account “the destructive events at the Capitol to undermine a legitimate and fair election.”
Meanwhile, the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield, Kim Keck, has noted that his company will suspend any financial support to the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to “subvert the results of the November election by objecting to the results of the Electoral College.”
Other large companies such as bank of america, Ford or AT&T told Popular Information that they will take recent events into account when deciding on future donations, while some like CVS, Exxon Mobil and Target said they were re-evaluating their policies.
Most of the companies consulted, however, preferred not to comment, with 127 of the 144 unanswered policy bulletin questions, including some such as Comcast / NBCUniversal giving tens of thousands of dollars in 2020 to lawmakers who object to election results.