© Stan Szeto | 2018 Aug 31
A few hours after appearing on KNBR, Charles Johnson’s attorney Joe Cotchett released a statement on behalf of the Giants owner and his wife. In the statement, Johnson asks for his donation to Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican U.S. Senator from Mississippi who has made a number of controversial remarks, to be returned.
Here’s a statement from Charles Johnson. He announces that he has asked for his donation to Cindy Hyde-Smith to be returned. pic.twitter.com/slyQnCaHdc
— Kerry Crowley (@KO_Crowley) November 27, 2018
Johnson and his wife Ann each donated the maximum $2,700 to the campaign of Hyde-Smith, as first reported by Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle. Hyde-Smith recently came under fire for saying of a local rancher, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.” Johnson and his wife made the donation nine days after the comment surfaced.
News of the donation comes less than a month after it was reveled that Johnson also donated $1,000 to a Super PAC called Black Americans for the President’s Agenda, that aired a racist radio ad during an Arkansas congressional election.
Cotchett claimed Johnson didn’t know who he was donating to, and that the owner is sick over what has happened. He also stated multiple times that Johnson “doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.”
