Outside clothes group Patagonia has made no secret of their far-left radical views.
Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario has repeatedly attacked President Trump and pledged to “resist” him.
Now, the watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT) has filed a marketing campaign finance criticism in opposition to the corporate’s tax-exempt arm, alleging the nonprofit is misrepresenting donations and “funneling its earnings to an array of teams engaged on every part from dam removing to voter registration.”
According to The New York Times, Patagonia and the Chouinard household, which based the corporate, “arrange a sequence of trusts, restricted legal responsibility firms and charitable teams designed to guard the independence of the clothes firm whereas distributing all of its earnings by an entity referred to as the Holdfast Collective” after the household relinquished possession of the corporate declaring all its future earnings could be used to guard the setting and fight local weather change.
APT Govt Director Caitlin Sutherland shared, “By misreporting the supply of the donations, Holdfast is making an attempt to cover its true organizational construction that operates as a $1.7 billion ATM for liberal teams.”
NEW: We’ve got filed an FEC criticism in opposition to @patagonia’s darkish cash group: @CaitlinAPT: “By misreporting the supply of the donations, Holdfast is making an attempt to cover its true organizational construction that operates as a $1.7 billion ATM for liberal teams.” https://t.co/Jsy1CbgPNy
— Individuals for Public Belief (@apublictrust) February 22, 2024
In accordance with APT’s criticism, filed on Thursday with the Federal Election Fee (FEC), a collective of climate-focused tax-exempt teams representing 98% of Patagonia’s nonvoting shares, misidentified political contributions made to Democrat political motion committees in 2022. If confirmed, this may violate the Federal Election Marketing campaign Act.
“With these large assets, and the next want to pour this cash into American politics, there ought to come nice duty and transparency,” the criticism states, pointing to the Patagonia collective’s huge property. “The very bedrock of those duties ought to embrace offering correct contributor data so that the majority fundamental disclosure and transparency necessities of [FECA] will be met.”
Federal elections filings analyzed by APT and reviewed by Fox Information Digital present that in late 2022 the so-called Holdfast Collective donated $100,000 to the Senate Majority PAC, which is dedicated to electing Democrats to the Senate; $50,000 to the Jane Fonda Local weather PAC, which supplies solely to left-wing campaigns; and $25,000 to the Galeo Influence Fund PAC, which donated solely to Democrat Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
The Holdfast Collective gave one other $20,000 to Activate America, one other PAC devoted solely to supporting Democrats.
Sutherland advised Fox Information Digital, “It’s unacceptable {that a} for-profit firm posed as a donor to masks a community of nonprofit organizations working to quietly affect our political system. By misreporting the supply of the donations, Holdfast is making an attempt to cover its true organizational construction that operates as a $1.7 billion ATM for liberal teams.”
I at all times knew Patagonia was soiled. Get their granola asses. https://t.co/uF4ebIvTC1
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) February 22, 2024