{"id":27439,"date":"2023-07-19T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2023-07-19T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:57:03","slug":"giants-owner-maxed-out-desantis-donations-days-after-candidate-ripped-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/giants-owner-maxed-out-desantis-donations-days-after-candidate-ripped-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants owner maxed out DeSantis donations days after candidate ripped SF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\">By Marcus White | Examiner staff writer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jul 18, 2023\u00a0Updated\u00a052 min ago  (SFExaminer.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/b\/cb\/bcb6549c-25a9-11ee-ae95-e3fb93d14917\/64b6f65f2c9c2.image.jpg?resize=400%2C267\" alt=\"Ron DeSantis in South Carolina\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Giants owner Charles Johnson donated $6,600, the maximum allowed, to Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, pictured above in South Carolina on July 18, 2023.AP Photo\/Sean Rayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Days after Florida Gov. Ron Desantis filmed a video&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/news\/politics\/ron-desantis-sf-video-filmed-blocks-from-trendy-restaurant\/article_0e438a0a-114b-11ee-80d6-479b7159ed82.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denigrating The City&#8217;s street conditions<\/a>, San Francisco Giants owner Charles Johnson gave the most money possible to the Republican presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson, a 90-year-old Florida resident, donated the maximum $6,600 \u2014 $3,300 for the Republican primary and $3,300 for the general election \u2014 to DeSantis&#8217; campaign on June 30, according to quarterly Federal Election Commission filings due last weekend. SFGATE first reported on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexShultz\/status\/1680991882674081793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johnson&#8217;s donations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Giants&#8217; largest shareholder since 2011, Johnson is among the world&#8217;s 500 wealthiest people, according to Bloomberg. He&#8217;s also a longtime Republican donor whose campaign contributions have attracted local and national scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Johnson donated $1,000 to a pro-Donald Trump super PAC that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/SF-Giants-owner-gave-1K-to-PAC-behind-racist-ad-13321897.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aired a racist radio ad<\/a>&nbsp;targeting Black voters in Arkansas. Johnson later called the ad &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; and said that he &#8220;strongly (condemned) any form of racism and in no way (condoned) the advertisement that was created by this entity.&#8221; Johnson&#8217;s attorney said the donation was returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same year, Johnson and his wife, Ann, requested a refund of their $5,400 donation to Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith after she said on the campaign trail that she would be in the front row of a &#8220;public hanging&#8221; if a supporter invited her to one. Mississippi has a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/08\/08\/modern-day-mississippi-lynchings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lengthy, ongoing history of lynchings<\/a>&nbsp;of Black men and teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson and his wife said in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection that they would &#8220;reject and denounce any individuals, candidates or elected officials who do not honor our Constitution&#8221; after campaign finance documents showed he donated to Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and other politicians who questioned the results of the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Johnson has continued donating to such politicians, including a $15,800 contribution to a PAC backing West Virginia Republican Rep. Alex Mooney in April. Mooney was one of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/01\/07\/us\/elections\/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">147 congressional Republicans<\/a>&nbsp;who voted to sustain at least one objection to the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeSantis hasn&#8217;t publicly said if he thinks President Joe Biden was the rightful winner that year, but officials in his gubernatorial administration have routinely met with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/26\/politics\/ron-desantis-election-deniers-florida-2020\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">activists who sought to overturn the election<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 44-year-old presidential hopeful has also criticized San Francisco, the city where Johnson&#8217;s Giants play, as a staple of his efforts to unseat Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten days before Johnson contributed to his campaign, DeSantis recorded a video on the corner of Geary and Hyde streets where he claimed he had &#8220;seen so much riff-raff running around&#8221; what he called &#8220;the once great city of San Francisco.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The City is not vibrant anymore. It&#8217;s really collapsed because of leftist policies, and these policies have caused people to flee this area,&#8221; DeSantis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnson was one of several donors to maximize their contributions to DeSantis&#8217; campaign. An NBC News analysis found that about $14 million, or nearly two-thirds of the Florida governor&#8217;s total fundraising, came from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/ron-desantis-campaign-finances-flashing-warning-signs-rcna94108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donors who can no longer donate<\/a>&nbsp;to his primary campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfexaminer.com\/content\/tncms\/avatars\/a\/2e\/096\/a2e096d0-383e-11ed-8dff-03ca0c28c2ed.6e26757400633d7b219baab76e54234b.png?_dc=1665446500\" alt=\"Marcus White\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfexaminer.com\/users\/profile\/Marcus%20White\">Marcus White<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Florida Gov. Ron Desantis filmed a video&nbsp;denigrating The City&#8217;s street conditions, San Francisco Giants owner Charles Johnson gave the most money possible to the Republican presidential candidate. Johnson, a 90-year-old Florida resident, donated the maximum $6,600 \u2014 $3,300 for the Republican primary and $3,300 for the general election&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/giants-owner-maxed-out-desantis-donations-days-after-candidate-ripped-sf\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[819,509,818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27443,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions\/27443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}