Posted on 07/08/2021 4:41:01 PM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp's (7203.T) political action committee will halt donations to U.S. members of Congress who voted against President Joe Biden's election certification in January, the company said on Thursday.
The largest Japanese automaker has faced harsh criticism for donations to some lawmakers - members of then-President Donald Trump's Republican Party - who voted against certification of Biden's win in some U.S. states.
"We are actively listening to our stakeholders and, at this time, have decided to stop contributing to those members of Congress who contested the certification of certain states in the 2020 election," the company said.
More than 535 people have been arrested and charged with joining a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an unsuccessful attempt to stop Congress from certifying Biden's election victory over Trump.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reported on June 23 that Toyota made $56,000 in total donations to 38 of the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted against Biden's electoral certification and said it was the most any company directly contributed to lawmakers who opposed certification.
That disclosure and subsequent media coverage prompted a frenzy of criticism of Toyota, which had earlier defended the donations.
The Lincoln Project, a group largely of Republicans that are critical of Trump, on Thursday posted an ad calling out Toyota's donations to those Republicans.
A Toyota spokesman did not say how long the contribution halt will last. The company noted its political action committee equally supports Republicans and Democrats and added the company "has long-standing relationships with Members of Congress across the political spectrum, especially those representing our U.S. operations."
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You should sell it, you will probably get more than you paid for it.
Quite a bit I reckon.
They make a great product and are eons ahead of most of their competition.
Very disappointing news!
Liked my Avalon some years back. Too bad I won’t be buying another one.
The list of companies I don’t want to boycott is getting smaller and smaller.
Very sad.
Toyota is definitely superior in a lot of ways.
One guy at work has an early 70s Datsun stretch cab that he drives every day. It looks like it might fall apart sometimes going down the road but he keeps on rolling.
Doctors, corporations, banks, all depend on having some government approvals to operate. If they don’t have them, they are out of business. The US government operates very much like the Mafia. “Gee, dat’s a nice business youse got there. Shame if the EPA don’t grant approval of youse cleaning machine.”
But they’ll continue to contribute to politicians who ran a coup against President Trump?
Coup good. Questioning dramatic post election day lead change bad. Smells of Obama.
We are actively listening to our stakeholders and, at this time, have decided to stop
Sounds like they are reacting to nonsense pressure.
Maybe someone might mention that Rats objected to the electoral votes in 2016 and have done so for decades.
They just turned this one into another TDS event since they wanted to keep the spotlight away from The Big Steal.
My mom’s Corolla has 275k on it and doesn’t miss a beat.
Those cars have a long-term toughness that’s tough to match anymore.
From my personal perspective they join the NFL on the ash heap of history.
The problem is, which car companies haven't sold out to the leftists?
Waiting for ARIZONA !
Once that happens ! Baboom !!!
It’s been over 10 years but a friend of my wife’s had a beater of a Camry with well over 200k and other than the AC not working, ran great.
He probably still has it.
Well, those patriot politicians should make it well known that “Zero Toyota Money” is a point of pride for them.
That sounds like a Toyota.
I should offer them my Corrola.
(wait till they find out it's a 97)
Toyota complaints contacts:
Call Customer Care on 800-331-4331.
Visit Customer Care Contact Form at Toyota web site.
I’m 50 and have 16 Tacoma. Barring disaster I plan on running this one for all its worth.
Eventually, I’ll have a jeep or blazer running as alternates.
Toy-yoda owns 20% of Subaru.
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