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AT&T has contributed $943,500 to House and Senate Tea Party Caucus members since 2009. In addition, it has given $111,500 to Tea Party cheerleader (and vice-presidential candidate) Rep. Paul Ryan, having donated to him every single year since 1998 when he was first elected to Congress.
2AT&T donated $1 million to the host committee for the 2012 Republican National Convention in Florida, in addition to $15 million it spent on adding cell towers, Wi-Fi hotspots and other upgrades for the convention.
3AT&T has given nearly $2 million to the Republican Governors Association (RGA), about the same amount donated to the RGA by the infamous Koch brothers and their companies. The RGA has helped elect governors who have cracked down on unions and gutted environmental regulations—while preserving corporate tax loopholes.
4AT&T has donated to extremist Republican governors like Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Gov. Rick Scott of Florida, and gave a hefty $562,739 to Gov. Rick Perry of Texas from 2000-2012.
5AT&T gave the maximum contribution to George W. Bush’s presidential campaign in 2000 and then to the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004—and contributed $1 million to the George W. Bush Foundation to help build his presidential library.
AT&T contributed to every Republican presidential nominee since 1996: Bob Dole, George W. Bush, the Bush-Cheney campaign, John McCain and Mitt Romney. It has not contributed to a Democratic presidential nominee since 1988.
7AT&T was the national corporate chair in 2010 of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate-funded group that drafts and promotes right-wing state legislation. Its extremist agenda, including anti-worker bills, voter suppression bills, and lowering corporate taxes, has prompted 32 corporations to cut ties so far. Not AT&T, though, which gave ALEC more than $150,000 in 2010-11.
8AT&T contributed $100,000 to the Heartland Institute, a leading promoter of climate-science denial as well as denial of the effects of second-hand smoke.
9AT&T has thrown fundraisers honoring some of our nation’s most odious politicians, including viciously anti-Muslim Rep. Pete King, Tea Party Ten conservative Rep. Dan Lungren, and Rep. Darrell Issa, who held a hearing on contraception but invited only male witnesses to testify.
10CREDO Mobile will help you get out of your contract with AT&T (or any other phone company) by crediting your CREDO account up to $350 per line (for up to three lines) to offset any early termination fee you may have to pay.*
