A giant on the stock market, Apple’s a small player in campaigns
Apple Inc. is the largest public company in the U.S., but one would be very wrong to think the firm has a heavy hand in the game of campaign funding.
The Center for Responsive Politics reports that Apple AAPL, +1.91% employees have donated $101,175 to candidates’s campaigns, political parties and other groups in both the Senate and the House this election cycle. For comparison sake, AT&T forked over about $3.5 million this cycle.
Apple employees have sent a majority of their contributions to Democrats—six in the Senate and 14 in the House—none of whom seem to be in states where they are in trouble.
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The tech giant’s employees donated the most to Democratic New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s campaign, where polls have him winning as of now 50.8% to 38.5% over Republican candidate Jeff Bell. And June 2013 was the last time an Apple employee even donated to Booker.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-giant-on-the-stock-market-apples-a-small-player-in-campaigns-2014-10-20