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San Francisco Giants owner Charles B. Johnson donated max amount to pro-QAnon Rep. Lauren Boebert
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Jan. 13, 2021 | Alex Schultz

Posted on 01/13/2021 10:27:06 PM PST by nickcarraway

According to FEC filings, in the lead-up to the 2020 general election, San Francisco Giants principal owner Charles B. Johnson and his wife Ann each donated $2,800 — the maximum allowable amount for congressional candidates — to Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a QAnon sympathizer who tweeted about the location of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol that caused five deaths.

Charles B. Johnson, 88, is a billionaire with decadeslong ties to the Republican Party. His donations have already come under scrutiny in recent years — an ESPN/FiveThirtyEight analysis from October revealed that since 2015, he's given far more to Republicans (nearly $11 million) than any other owner in pro sports. And in 2018, Johnson donated to Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (then a candidate), who quipped about one of her supporters on the campaign trail: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be in the front row."

Johnson issued a rare public statement when his donation was revealed, telling the San Francisco Chronicle that Hyde-Smith's remark was "stupid," that he'd gotten his money back, and, “On the whole, I don’t like the idea of politics affecting anything I do with the Giants.”

But Johnson may have wanted to refer back to that sentiment before giving money to a conspiracy theorist who once said on a QAnon-friendly podcast, "Everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real." Boebert, sworn in on Jan. 3, tweeted, "Today is 1776," in the early morning hours of Jan. 6, before Trump supporters rioted at the Capitol. She's faced calls for her resignation or expulsion after she endangered Pelosi and fellow members of the House with her live play-by-play of their whereabouts during the riots. (Other members of Congress have said that they were

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; boebert; colorado; giants; keystonexl; laurenboebert; mlb

1 posted on 01/13/2021 10:27:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

So what?


2 posted on 01/13/2021 10:28:08 PM PST by madison10 (Trump's greatest accomplishment is getting all the cockroaches to come into the light.)
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To: madison10

The Gestapo Newspaper apparently


3 posted on 01/13/2021 10:32:37 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: nickcarraway
a QAnon sympathizer who tweeted about the location of House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi during the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol that caused five deaths.

Total nonsense. She posed with some dude with a Q shirt = "sympathizer"

And she didn't reveal Pelosi's "location." More Twitter lies. She reported when they were all placed in lockdown, and reported when "Speaker" was taken out of lockdown, but not where they took her.

4 posted on 01/13/2021 10:35:14 PM PST by montag813 ("Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great")
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To: nickcarraway

I’m now a Giant’s fan.


5 posted on 01/13/2021 10:39:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Notice how they don’t believe others don’t have the right to talk. To communicate.

What we say is criminal to the current totalitarians.


6 posted on 01/13/2021 10:41:48 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Could you clarify the meaning of your first sentence.


7 posted on 01/13/2021 10:44:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Lol.


8 posted on 01/13/2021 10:55:20 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: nickcarraway

This guy should team up with elon musk to take back the internet.


9 posted on 01/13/2021 10:56:07 PM PST by Fla.Deporable
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To: ifinnegan
I’m now a Giant’s fan.

Which Giant is it? Or perhaps a giant uses you as a fan when it’s warm?

Sorry, just having a bit of fun because it seems every plural word these days gets an improper apostrophe. I’ve even noticed that Autocorrect on my phone is constantly trying to insert apostrophes before the “s” on plural words.

10 posted on 01/13/2021 11:10:49 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: nickcarraway

Doxxing?
Outing?
Cleanse coming?
Re-education camp maybe?


11 posted on 01/14/2021 12:32:03 AM PST by cranked
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To: nickcarraway

So what, Q was dumb but became misinformation leading to the maximum harm to President Trump and a second sham impeachment.

ThankQ, thank you!

Signed,
Pelosi & the Dems


12 posted on 01/14/2021 4:55:59 AM PST by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! So ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! /s 👹.)
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