Mark Gorton, who also created LimeWire, says he's helped fund presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine group.
vaccines and helped elevate Kennedy's profile. The nonprofit's most recent publicly available tax documents show that it raised just over $6 million in 2020, the year the Covid pandemic started, more than double what it raised a year earlier.the group raised just over $15 million that year. It went into 2022 with over $11 million in assets. The documents don't name the group's donors.
Beyond his donation, Gorton said he's been talking to the nonprofit's staff through Zoom calls, and advising the group on its messaging strategy. "I basically have been working with them to try and develop a strategy to go after the core of the beast which is the pharmaceutical industry," he said. Federal Election Commission records show that Gorton donated $500,000 last year to a super PAC that was then called the People Pharma's Movement and run byKennedy allies. That PAC rebranded as American Values 2024 and has spent over $200,000 in print ads backing Kennedy's candidacy, according to FEC records.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces his candidacy for President of the United States in a speech at Boston Park Plaza, April 19, 2023.Gorton said he has no current plans to donate to the PAC this cycle. "I don't think it's a super high-leverage thing for me to do. Now that it's supporting Bobby Kennedy, you're in the realm of presidential races where billions of dollars are spent and I don't think I can make any difference at that scale," Gorton said.
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