Susan Sarandon and Twitter executives are among the Black Lives Matter activist’s donors,but opponents still polling higher with Baltimore residentsCelebrities and tech executives were among the top donors around the country to the Baltimore mayoral bid of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. But the candidate is still polling at less than 1% in a race against more than a dozen other candidates.
Actors Susan Sarandon and Rashida Jones contributed $500 and $2500 respectively. Executives from companies including Twitter, Netflix and Slack made donations of the $6000 legal limit, and according to campaign finance reports filed on Tuesday. In all,McKesson received contributions totaling more than $222000 from close to 5000 individual donors in every state in the US, reflecting the national support for a candidate with wide name recognition and a major national social media following.
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Source: theguardian.com