Many are calling into question PepsiCo’s “commitment to empowering women,” as opponents of the abortion law say it takes away a woman’s ability to made important decisions about her life. Joni Mitchell is seeking to remove all of her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, after a protest against the streaming service for airing Joe. Regardless, users on Twitter are using this as fuel to protest the company. The check to the Republican party was not processed until August 2021. As a result, the donation was recorded then and disclosed in a recent filing,” said Andrea Foote, PepsiCo’s senior director of global communications.įoote added that PepsiCo has made no further donations to either Texas state political party since 2020, saying “any reports to the contrary are incorrect.” In the summer of 2020, we donated to both the Democratic and Republican parties in Texas to support those state conventions. “During presidential election years, PepsiCo has typically made donations supporting both the Democratic and Republican conventions in several states. PepsiCo defended its contribution in a statement sent to Nexstar via email, implying the timeline refutes support for the Texas abortion law. The author noted that these donations likely occurred before the law was passed, but argued the contribution nonetheless helped the Republicans who sponsored it. In a list of companies who donated to politicians and politician committees that played a role in enacting Texas’ controversial abortion law, an online newsletter first reported Monday that the company donated to the Texas Republican Party. If you popped into Twitter this week, you probably saw #BoycottPepsi trending and it has nothing to do with the decades-long battle about whether Pepsi or Coke is tastier - it actually has a lot more to do with Texas politics. “I mean, at the end of the day, it’s the kids, the students in those schools are the ones that we’re preparing for being strong, active, engaged citizens, in our in our democracy.” “I think you have to be smart and be thoughtful, as parents or as anyone that’s concerned about our public schools,” Thomason said. In fact, cafeteria tables aren’t even equipped to be set up at different heights.” “Tables are not being lowered in any Round Rock ISD cafeterias. “This is absolutely false,” Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, a spokesperson for RRISD, responded. “Cafeteria tables are being lowered in certain middle and high schools to allow ‘furries’ to more easily eat without utensils or their hands (i.e., like a dog eats from a bowl),” candidate Michelle Evans said in a tweet from what appears to be her campaign account. That’s a sentence we didn’t expect to write this week, but after a woman running for House District 136 tweeted out that cafeteria tables were being lowered at Round Rock middle and high schools to allow “furries” to eat without their hands, it was a rumor KXAN had to debunk. No, tables are not being lowered at RRISD schools for ‘furries’ If you missed what was trending this week…we suggest you buckle up. In this weekend read, we’re taking a look at the viral stories that dominated Texas headlines. You can’t see us, but we’re raising our hand. AUSTIN (KXAN) - Raise your hand if you’re ready to take a break from the internet after the week we’ve had in Central Texas.