Posted on 10/13/2018 12:38:39 PM PDT by simpson96
Hollywood has always been a reliable source of contributions to Democratic Party politicians and organizations, but perhaps never so more than the 2018 election cycle.
Of the more than $4 million in federal donations made by the top Hollywood executives and entertainers, 99.7 percent went to Democrats and Democratic-leaning political action committees or organizations, according to a Hollywood Reporter data review of Federal Election Commission records.
Only three members of this year's THR 100 list donated to Republicans or Republican committees: Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels donated $5,000 to moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins; WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey gave $2,000 to both Tennessee Republican Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn and the National Republican Congressional Committee; and Viacom CEO Bob Bakish gave $1,500 to Republican Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson and $1,000 to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The biggest Hollywood donations went almost all to Democrats. The Senate Majority PAC was the primary recipient, with HBO host Bill Maher ($1 million), Netflix CEO Reed Hastings ($500,000) and Endeavor executives Ari Emanuel ($100,000) and Patrick Whitesell ($100,000) making major donations.
"Every donation we receive is critical to help us ensure victory come Election Day," said Senate Majority PAC president J.B. Poersch.(snip)
Directors have been among Hollywood's most prolific donors, including Steve Spielberg ($549,000) and J.J. Abrams ($347,500).
Netflix executives also made their presence felt, led by chief executive Reed Hastings, who has made 14 donations totaling $546,600.
While Hollywood's donor base has gotten younger and more diverse, veteran executive Jeffrey Katzenberg more than doubled the donation total of any member of the THR 100, giving $1,116,300 so far.
Among recipients of Hollywood's largesse, embattled Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has brought in $627,051 from entertainers.
(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
Unfortunately this is not a surprise.
#pleaseprotectmefromthemetoomovement money.
How about the non-cash donations in their biased depictions pro-left and anti-right? That might amount to billions.
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Precisely where the Red Chinese are - helping the Dems.
Everything they do is bad for America.
It is amazing what people want to subject other to people when they are insulated from the consequences
“Only three members of this year’s THR 100 list donated to Republicans or Republican committees”
Well, they need to be hounded out of Hollywood by “the mob”. Can’t leave them alone, can we?
Not a lot of diversity in thought or ethnicity.
Maybe we conservatives should extend our NFL boycott to going to movies made by leftists.
We could go to films made by Malkin, Hannity and Eastwood,etc. Let the left find an audience who wants to enrich the leftist haters.
Good way to defund the libs.
Its really important that Hollywood be made to feel pain for their ongoing attack on the American nation. If they are allowed to attack with impunity, it will only get worse.
Then it is important for us to not spend one dime on any of their Liberal garbage.
Time for some copyright reform.
Let’s put it back the way it was and put a monster load of stuff in the public domain.
Money to burn
Aid and comfort to the enemy.
Are they registered to vote?
Hollywood tears taste SO MUCH SWEEETER!!!
At least put copyrights back to where they were in the Reagan era. Many people don’t realize that the DMCA (1998) was the result of direct payoff by Disney and other media conglomerates.
The US Constitution literally says that copyrights are only to be for “a limited duration,” yet we are in the absurd situation where nothing from 1923 or later has entered the public domain since 1998, meaning that a lot of works have simply been lost because the rights-holders are unknown (meaning that nobody is actually reprinting/republishing the material). This was not the original intent of copyright law.
I’m so shocked!
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