According to her twitter bio, NBC has Jane TimmSelf describes herself as a senior reporter, telling stories about voter rights. She was an activist, so it seemed fitting she joined Hallie Jackson Reports MSNBC Friday asked corporations if they care about “voting right.” After all they are still giving money to Republicans.
Jackson thanked Timm for his “great reporting” about Michigan’s redistricting. It’s easy to break it down. Big companies, like I think Amazon is part of it, Facebook, that donated to Republican senators even though they signed this Business for Voting Rights letter. We don’t know much else.
Timm replied, “Yeah, you know, this summer we had this outpouring of public support, companies coming out and saying voting rights is critical. Now, some companies didn’t really want to get behind the For the People Act, which was a sweeping bill, had a lot of campaign finance reform. But the John Lewis Voting Rights Act was the one that 200 companies got behind in a July letter and said ‘you know, we’re on board with, we need this, it is critical to our democracy.”
Jackson and Timm looked confused at the concept that corporations can give money to politicians from both parties, sometimes regardless of what their political positions are. They do it to curry favor and influence, and “voting rights,” was a way to virtue signal to MSNBCs around the globe. Timm still found it shocking that corporations would donate to Republicans.
But what we’re seeing is that’s not stopping the donations from flowing. Even after that letter, some of these companies kept writing big checks to Republican re-election campaigns. And it’s those Republicans that are the very people who voted against this bill and while we may say some of the donations came before the John Lewis Voting Rights letter of support and before the vote last, this week, we knew this was going to happen. This was something we knew. They telegraphed it, the party was very clear they were not going to support new voting rights legislation. We’ve known that for months. But the donations, they kept flowing, Hallie.
The likely explanation is that nobody outside of the media and the Democratic Party honestly believes these bills are “critical to our democracy.” They claim support them simply because corporations, which is a mistake, think it will improve their image. MSNBC needs to stop making it seem like a terrible social sin to give money to the country’s major political parties.
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This transcript covers the November 5th show.
MSNBC
Hallie Jackson Reports
3:53 PM ET
HALLIE JACKSON : The voting rights stuff you talked about is another great piece of reporting. It’s easy to break it down. Big companies, like I think Amazon is part of it, Facebook, that donated to Republican senators even though they signed this Business for Voting Rights letter. We don’t know much else.
JANE TIMM: Yeah, you know, this summer we had this outpouring of public support, companies coming out and saying voting rights is critical. Now, some companies didn’t really want to get behind the For the People Act, which was a sweeping bill, had a lot of campaign finance reform. But the John Lewis Voting Rights Act was the one that 200 companies got behind in a July letter and said “you know, we’re on board with, we need this, it is critical to our democracy.”
But what we’re seeing is that’s not stopping the donations from flowing. Even after that letter, some of these companies kept writing big checks to Republican re-election campaigns. And it’s those Republicans that are the very people who voted against this bill and while we may say some of the donations came before the John Lewis Voting Rights letter of support and before the vote last, this week, we knew this was going to happen. This was something we knew. They telegraphed it, the party was very clear they were not going to support new voting rights legislation. We’ve known that for months. But the donations, they kept flowing, Hallie.
