Corporate America loves LGBTQ people & anti-LGBTQ politicians

[Behind the Aegis]

Corporate America wants you to know that it loves LGBTQ people. Just look at the array of them you see in ads for the holiday season.

But when push comes to shove, the love has its limits, particularly when it’s in the corporations’ financial interests. The latest case in point: the Georgia Senate race runoffs.

The US Chamber of Commerce, to which most major corporations in America belong, is spending $2 million on ads on behalf of the Republican incumbents, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who are facing runoffs with Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff respectively.

The ads urge Georgians to “thank” Loeffler and Perdue for providing pandemic relief to small businesses. Presumably, the thanks should come in the form of a vote. Unmentioned in the ad is that Loeffler and Perdue have been dragging their feet about additional pandemic relief after Congress passed its initial package.

The Chamber has always been friendly toward Republican candidates. The group, which relies upon funding from its members, spent more than $100 million backing Republican candidates of the past decade. The fact that the Chamber actually endorsed two dozen House Democrats in the last election cycle was a source of controversy within the organization.

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