“Not a Part of Maga Agenda” – ryan
>As recently as 2014, Coachella owner Philip Anschutz, whose company Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) organizes the festival under its sister corporate entity Goldenvoice, has donated large amounts of money to homophobic organizations like Promise Keepers and The Navigators, according to Spin magazine.
>Just [in 2021] alone, Anshutz’s donated $109,500 toward the National Republican Convention — which was $84,500 more than he did the year prior, according to OpenSecrets.org. ([in 2019], the 82-year-old donated $103,500 to the right-wing convention.)
>In 2021, Anschutz gave over $125,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee; 2021 saw the owner of AGE send $36,500 to the National Republican Senate Committee. Not a single dollar of Anschutz’s current $12 billion net worth has gone toward any democratic or independent candidate, committee, or campaign since 2004.
>Billboard was quick to note in 2020 that AEG Anschutz has donated $1.2 million over the past decade to two organizations that have made public statements against LGBTQIA+ people — Colorado Christian University and the Sky Ranch Christian camping organization. Anschutz’s donations to many anti-LGBTQIA+ groups that were absent from 2017 tax filings were to alliances Southern Poverty Law Center has since deemed hate groups, such as the Alliance Defending Freedom, the “pro-life, pro-marriage” Family Research Council organization, and other anti-LGBTQIA+ organizations like Focus on the Family, the National Christian Foundation, and the Heritage Foundation.