The non-profit Campaign Legal Center filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission earlier this month, alleging an illegal $1.4 million scheme to finance Democratic politicians through a dark-money operation.
The complaint, filed on Dec. 9 and reported on Thursday by The Intercept, focused on the liberal-leaning clothing company Patagonia, and its ties to a mysterious corporation called “Save Our Home Planet Action, Inc.”
According to the complaint, SOHPA was incorporated in Delaware in August 2024. It appears to have conducted no real business before donating some $1.4 million to five political action committees—Senate Democratic campaign fund, the League of Conservation Voters Victory Fund, the House Democrats, FF PAC, The PAC for America’s Future—and three “hybrid” PACs. The donations were made between Aug. 16 and Sept. 4.
The complaint says that SOHPA’s address is the same as Patagonia’s. The complaint further noted that Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard said in 2018 that “we’re in business to save our home planet”—the same phrase used in the SOHPA acronym.
The Campaign Legal Center said those connections “strongly suggest” that Patagonia or its executives may be the true source of the contributions made in SOHPA’s name. […]
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