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Patagonia Implicated in Alleged 'Straw Donor' Scheme To Bankroll Major Democratic Super PACs in 'Blatant Violation of the Law,' FEC Complaint Says
Washington Free Beacon ^ | January 2, 2025 | Andrew Kerr

Posted on 01/04/2025 7:00:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Within days of its founding in early August, a mysterious company called Save Our Home Planet Action, Inc. managed to get ahold of nearly $2.2 million—funds that it promptly handed over to a collection of major Democratic super PACs...

Federal Election Commission records show the mysterious company shares an address with Patagonia, the self-proclaimed "activist company" that has committed to donating $100 million every year to combat climate change and uses the "Save Our Home Planet" slogan in the clothing it sells. And California business records show Greg Curtis, a former Patagonia legal officer who now heads the retailer's parent nonprofit, signed documents on behalf of Save Our Home Planet Action.

To Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, Save Our Home Planet Action likely isn't a real company in the traditional sense but a shell corporation launched by Patagonia or its executives to facilitate an illegal "straw donor" scheme that concealed the true source of the funds it doled out to Democratic super PACs, which included $450,000 each to the Senate and House Democratic campaign funds, $1.2 million to the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, and $50,000 to Future Forward, the primary super PAC that backed Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign...

Patagonia became a darling of the left as it ramped up its political activism during President-elect Donald Trump's first administration, selling apparel with the tag "VOTE THE ******** OUT" and offering its full-throated support of the Black Lives Matter movement.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: andrewkerr; blacklivesmatter; domesticenemies; domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists; fec; jennajohnson; moneylaundering; ngos; pac; patagonia; ryangellert; shellcompany; washingtonfreebeacon

1 posted on 01/04/2025 7:00:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Lock them up.

2 posted on 01/04/2025 7:01:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those phony ballots aren’t going to manufacture themselves.

Figure about $40 to $80 on average per phony ballot...


3 posted on 01/04/2025 7:07:25 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: SunkenCiv

But Trump is a criminal!!🤦🏼‍♀️


4 posted on 01/04/2025 7:09:07 PM PST by small farm girl
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To: SunkenCiv

CEO: Ryan Gellert (Sep 2020–)

President: Jenna Johnson


5 posted on 01/04/2025 7:10:27 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: SunkenCiv

It may be illegal, but it’s necessary to “save democracy.”


6 posted on 01/04/2025 7:21:36 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: SunkenCiv

Pam Bondi is going to be very very busy directing all these investigations.


7 posted on 01/04/2025 7:27:53 PM PST by Newbomb Turk
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To: SunkenCiv

If it’s time to prosecute, prosecute! Don’t talk.


8 posted on 01/04/2025 7:44:52 PM PST by TigersEye (16 more days of a severe chance of thermonuclear winter. "Well anyway")
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To: SunkenCiv

A tangled web to launder Soros and tax dollars to the democrat party. I hope we see them prosecuted but they are all protected.


9 posted on 01/04/2025 8:07:46 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SunkenCiv

bump


10 posted on 01/04/2025 8:26:10 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: SunkenCiv

Saving Our Planet is a big claim. They make it without defining what they are saving it from and how it is going to be any different after they save it. Just liberal Subaru drivers who think they are better than everyone else.


11 posted on 01/04/2025 8:49:37 PM PST by webheart (S)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


12 posted on 01/05/2025 5:45:35 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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To: SunkenCiv

The guy behind Patagonia and its wacko leftist donations is a guy named Yvon Chouinard, who started selling mountain climbing gear back in the 70’s and transitioned into surf wear.

He’s been at this for a long time. But like all leftists, he believes the end justifies the means, and rules are for other people. He’s now “retired” but still very politically involved.


13 posted on 01/05/2025 6:45:17 AM PST by con-surf-ative
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To: con-surf-ative

Retirement, it’s not just for replicants anymore.


14 posted on 01/05/2025 6:48:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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