I was already having a bad day, but seeing the Buffalo Bills on this list has put it straight into the shitter. I wonder if there is anyone who can reach out to the organization and learn more...
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My guess was that maybe it was created based on major donors, which is required to be publicly disclosed for public companies. Unlike many major sports teams, the only donations the Pegulas gave were bi-partisan, which does not show thy support project 2025.
It's actually very untrue. There was a great reel on Instagram explaining that pegulas and Bills are actually really pretty decent but I can't remember where it was.
My guess is this draws on the same public database as OpenSecrets, where political donors have to name their employer. When you search OpenSecrets for the Bills, you get a bunch of small-dollar donations probably from individual employees, not the organization. The Pegulas appear as individuals.
The proportions on that website roughly match the cumulative totals OpenSecrets gives for Bills employees.
Kim & Terry Pegula's big donations, which do include some big $$ to RNC but mostly stopped since 2016, were made under the name of their investment company
This comes from a YouTube video that never explains the source of the info, how she’s defining “large contributions” or what she considers supporting T/P25. No sign of anything unusual in anything I could find that uses FEC data
Open Secrets does say 2024 data is still incomplete, so maybe there was a big late donation after August. But the journos above presumably had a fuller data set
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/05/us-sports-team-political-donations-database
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC2fcSgvHqP/?igsh=ZmhmZ290b3Q0a2w1
https://www.goodsuniteus.com/brands/#/brand/buffalo-bills
Kim & Terry Pegula's big donations, which do include some big $$ to RNC but mostly stopped since 2016, were made under the name of their investment company
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/05/us-sports-team-political-donations-database
Open Secrets database doesn’t show any sign of big T/P2025 donations from anyone affiliated with Bills since 2016
https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-mlb-nba-owners-2024-election-trump-harris/