Sign this petition re: Insurrectionists & GM

General Motors has broken their promise and donated to nearly a dozen lawmakers who voted to overturn the election.

Sign the petition: GM, keep your word. Stop funding sedition.

Dear MoveOn member,

After the shocking violence of January 6, General Motors pledged to pause all political donations and re-evaluate its relationship to the lawmakers who fueled the insurrection.¹

But my organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has found that GM has broken that promise and has donated to nearly a dozen lawmakers who voted to overturn the election.²

Sign now: GM must stop funding insurrection supporters.

GM: Keep your promise. Don't fuel sedition. Stop all donations to politicians who voted on January 6 to overturn the election and the committees that support them, call on them to renounce their votes, and rescind any contributions you've made to them in 2021.

The 147 members of Congress who voted to reject the election results helped fuel the insurrection, advanced conspiracy theories, and attacked our democracy. These members of Congress should renounce their votes against certifying the election and commit to respecting the 2020 election, future elections, and our democratic system, and GM and other corporations and industry groups should demand that they do so.

We've already seen some companies who had let their commitments to democracy slip make things right. Toyota, who made a similar commitment in January, was also singled out as a top contributor to insurrectionist lawmakers based on CREW's research—and they changed their policy to prevent it from happening again.³ GM needs to follow their lead, as well as the dozens of companies who haven't kept their commitments.

GM: You did the right thing in January to distance yourself from the lawmakers who threatened our democracy. You must keep your word and refuse to backtrack on this commitment.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks for all you do.

–Noah Bookbinder, President, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Sources: 

1. "General Motors Suspends All Political Contributions For Now," GM Authority, January 13, 2021

https://act.moveon.org/go/154918?t=18&akid=303549%2E53570607%2EqHaeLV

 

2. "This sedition is brought to you by...," Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, accessed July 30, 2021
https://act.moveon.org/go/154919?t=20&akid=303549%2E53570607%2EqHaeLV 

 

3. "Toyota won't donate to election objectors after company was targeted by anti-Trump PAC in ad," USA Today, July 8, 2021

https://act.moveon.org/go/154895?t=22&akid=303549%2E53570607%2EqHaeLV

 

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