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Google joins list of companies seeking refund of campaign donation to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith after 'p
Source: Washington Post
Google joins list of companies seeking refund of campaign donation to Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith after ‘public hanging’ comment
By Taylor Telford
November 27 at 9:11 AM
Google is the latest company to demand a refund of a campaign contribution it made to Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi because of what critics say are her racially charged comments, including one about a “public hanging.”
Google late Monday joined a growing list of companies — including Walmart, AT&T and Pfizer — asking for their donations back ahead of Mississippi’s Tuesday election, where Hyde-Smith is facing Democrat Mike Espy, a former U.S. agriculture secretary who is black.
Hyde-Smith, who has been endorsed by President Trump, became the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress in April after she was appointed to replace Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who had stepped down because of health problems.
Hyde-Smith’s campaign has been roiled by revelations that she embraced Confederate history at several points throughout her career. On Nov. 3, Hyde-Smith was recorded saying it’d be a “good idea” to make it more difficult for some groups to vote. Then a video posted to Twitter showed the senator saying at a Tupelo campaign stop that if a local rancher standing next to her “invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”
Mississippi long had a reputation for lynching African Americans, many by hanging.
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By Taylor Telford
November 27 at 9:11 AM
Google is the latest company to demand a refund of a campaign contribution it made to Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi because of what critics say are her racially charged comments, including one about a “public hanging.”
Google late Monday joined a growing list of companies — including Walmart, AT&T and Pfizer — asking for their donations back ahead of Mississippi’s Tuesday election, where Hyde-Smith is facing Democrat Mike Espy, a former U.S. agriculture secretary who is black.
Hyde-Smith, who has been endorsed by President Trump, became the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress in April after she was appointed to replace Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who had stepped down because of health problems.
Hyde-Smith’s campaign has been roiled by revelations that she embraced Confederate history at several points throughout her career. On Nov. 3, Hyde-Smith was recorded saying it’d be a “good idea” to make it more difficult for some groups to vote. Then a video posted to Twitter showed the senator saying at a Tupelo campaign stop that if a local rancher standing next to her “invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.”
Mississippi long had a reputation for lynching African Americans, many by hanging.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/27/google-joins-list-companies-seeking-refund-campaign-donation-sen-cindy-hyde-smith-after-public-hanging-comment/
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play Phil Ochs singing "Here's to the State of Mississippi" until I throw up. 
All these companies “asking” for their contributions back in the last days of a campaign. Surely, all their donations have long since been spent. She gets their help in getting elected, and they can make a pretense of being “virtuous” after it’s too late to have an effect.
