Max Peck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:36 am
The article does say that they are small totals:
"While the figures are relatively small for campaign fundraising, they indicate political leanings at odds with Musk's own." Without similar data from comparable companies, I have no idea whether or not they are unusually low.
Ok. I was interested in this and am stuck in a hotel room with nothing to do, so I did some digging.
Tesla has 140K employees. That ranks them 49 of the
100 largest employers in the U.S. Here are the companies in that neighborhood:
45. Apple (161K employees)
46. Oracle (159K employees)
47. McDonald’s (150K employees)
48. AT&T (149K employees)
49. Tesla (140K employees)
50. Tyson Foods (139K employees)
51. American Airlines (132K employees)
52. Johnson & Johnson (131K employees)
Here are the
individual donations for those companies:
45. Apple (161K employees) $2.3M total
- Harris = $862K
- Trump = $44K
46. Oracle (159K employees) $2.1M total
-Harris = $323K
- Trump = $41K
47. McDonald’s (150K employees) $600K total
- Harris = $43K
- Trump = $31K
48. AT&T (149K employees) $1.4M total
- Harris = $212K
- Trump = $77K
49. Tesla (140K employees) $179K total
- Harris = $43K
- Trump = $25K
50. Tyson Foods (139K employees) $520K
- Harris = $17K
- Trump = $6K
51. American Airlines (132K employees) $1.2M
- Harris = $138K
- Trump = $269K
52. Johnson & Johnson (131K employees) $411K
- Harris = $106K
- Trump = $21K
Tesla seems to be an outlier in political contributions.