Your Coachella Money Is Going to a Right-Wing Billionaire Who Funded Anti-LGBT/Anti-Marijuana Causes

[RandySF]

This weekend, hordes of music lovers and teepee enthusiasts will descend on Indio, California, for the annual Coachella Music Festival. The first big festival of the season, Coachella has a reputation for attracting the worst of the worst: entitled rich kids in knockoff Native headdresses, bankers in bindis, and these people. Think Fyre Festival, but financially solvent.

A few years ago, The Washington Post revealed that the often-problematic festival’s issues went way beyond appropriative accessories. A 2016 report on America’s “enemies of equality” is often cited as blowing the lid off Coachella and its founder, Philip Anschutz, the owner of entertainment conglomerate AEG. The Freedom for All Americans campaign reported that Anschutz, one of the richest people in America with a net worth of $12.9 billion, gave large sums of money to the Alliance Defending Freedom, the National Christian Foundation, and the Family Research Council.

According to the Post, the National Christian Foundation “funds a lot of the groups aggressively working to chip away at the equal rights of LGBT Americans.” The Family Research Council, which expressly says on its website that it “believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large,” has been deemed an “extremist group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Phil Anschutz’s extensive influence in Colorado politics has been known for years, but the degree of his support for anti-LGBTQ groups that fund extremist hate groups like Gordon Kligenschmitt’s ‘Pray in Jesus Name’ is shocking,” said ProgressNow Colorado’s executive director, Ian Silverii. “At a time in American history when discrimination and violence against LGBTQ citizens is on the rise, support for pro-discrimination groups puts Anschutz on the wrong side of Colorado, and on the wrong side of history.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/your-coachella-money-is-going-to-a-right-wing-billionaire-who-funded-anti-lgbt-and-anti-marijuana-causes

[rockfordfile]

1. True

The person is a bigot.

[Upthevibe]

2. I didn't know about this guy....

My first thought is why in the Hell is he even involved in Coachella? It just seems like a really odd combination...

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Thanks for the post.

Have been writing about this Guy and his Influence in Colorado Politics for years. He is not Mr. Nice Guy what's so ever. He is and was the Guy behind the most recent Supreme Court Nominee. And he loves to spread his wealth to any right wing nut job group as long as they mess with the Democrats and Democratic Institutions.

[ProudLib72]

5. Honestly, the only time I had heard of him (cause I live under a rock)

was the Anschutz medical campus in Aurora. I had no idea.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Yes,his personnal Monument to

unto himself.

One of the people behind the sell off of Public Lands to mega wealthy people like himself. One of the People advocating the demise of Amtrak,wants the powers that be give it to him to operate as a private company. There are tons more examples why this sucker is bad news for our nation.

[ProudLib72]

7. Noted: Thanks for pointing it out to me

I will be on the lookout in the future.

[Cha]

4. How freaking ironic

most of those going to Indio to celebrate the music would hate this guy's bent.

I used to live in Indio for a 1 year and 1/2 in the early '80s.. I thought is was really cool that they're having the music festival there.. so much wide open land back then anyway.

Is the intake of Marijuana monitored?