Estimated at 26%, Charles B. Johnson's ownership stake of the San Francisco Giants makes him their principal owner. Johnson has long been an ardent financial supporter of the Republican Party and conservative values. A 10/29/20 piece in FiveThirtyEight shed light on the true scope of his financial contributions. As of publication, he had donated over $11 million to Republican candidates—including Donald Trump—and political action committees (PACs). This number accounted for 32% of all donations by 160 professional sports owners and commissioners to Republican causes in that time. That is a truly jaw-dropping statistic.

While donating to GOP and conservative groups is not inherently wrong—though, it may be a bitter pill to swallow for Giants fans, who come from one of America's most liberal metropolitan areas—who Johnson has donated to is cause for grave concern. 

Per the San Francisco Chronicle, "Johnson and his wife each donated the maximum amount before the 2020 general election to Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., who has voiced support for QAnon and faced criticism for her actions during last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol." During the siege on the Capitol, Boebert was tweeting to her followers—who earlier had been chanting for the head of Vice President Mike Pence and other high-profile politicians—the location of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi has served the City of San Francisco since 1987 and has been one of the Giants' most visible fans. God only knows what would've happened to her had the terrorists found her.

Furthermore, per Around the Foghorn, "in 2018, Johnson donated to the campaign of Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in her runoff for a Mississippi senate seat against Mike Espy, a Democratic Party nominee. On the campaign trail, Hyde-Smith was caught on camera telling a local rancher that she would be 'on the front row' if he invited her to a public hanging. Nine days after the video surfaced, Johnson doubled his donations to her campaign. She only slightly apologized for the comments and went on to win the election." Johnson later requested that his donations be returned, but the damage had already been done.

Although Johnson has the right to donate to whomever he wishes, the people he has given money to support values that are both completely and unequivocally anti-San Franciscan and, more importantly, anti-American. His continued ownership of the San Francisco Giants brings significant shame upon an organization that has prided itself on inclusion—whether it be related to race, gender, creed, or sexual orientation. The dark cloud of Johnson's ownership is far thicker than the fog that rolls through our beloved city. 

As such, we the undersigned demand that Charles B. Johnson sell his stake of the San Francisco Giants. If he refuses, we demand that the rest of the Giants ownership group forces him out. Until then, we are resigned to boycotting the San Francisco Giants. 

Unlike Johnson and those he's donated to, we're putting our country and its values first, not our personal interests.

~

1/18/21 Update

A few days ago, SFGate published a comprehensive list of far-right and QAnon sympathetic politicians Johnson has sent money to. 

Here is information about each candidate:

Sen. Tommy Tuberville
Tuberville was one of the eight senators who objected to the 2020 election results. A day after the Capitol riots, he continued to express "serious concerns" about election fraud in Arizona and Pennsylvania despite the Supreme Court and both states not finding any evidence of such.

He is an ardent climate change denier who once said God "controls this climate in this country." He also botched basic facts about the American government during an interview after he was elected, calling the three branches of government "the House, the Senate and the executive.” This week, he suggested President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration should be moved until "after we got this virus behind us a little bit."

Sen. Tom Cotton
Cotton was the man responsible for the New York Times op-ed that called for military intervention in Black Lives Matter protests last year following the death of George Floyd, a piece that sparked a mass revolt among Times writers and was later found by editors to not meet editorial standards.

Cotton has denied the existence of systemic racism in America and spread the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus pandemic was created by the Chinese government. He also defended the act of chattel slavery, calling it a "necessary evil" during an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in which he repudiated the Times' 1619 Project. (He later backtracked those comments, but not before he accused the project's creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, of "lies.")

Sen. Kelly Loeffler
Loeffler was embroiled in scandal last year after it was revealed that she and her husband, businessman Jeffrey Sprecher, had sold millions in stocks after attending a private Senate meeting about the long-term risks of COVID-19. (While an investigation into possible insider trading was dismissed, it came while she was in the throes of a re-election campaign that she ended up losing.)

She came out against WNBA players wearing shirts in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming the movement was "anti-Semitic" and seeking to "destroy American principles." That move culminated in the WNBA team she owns — the Atlanta Dream — repeatedly coming out in support of her opponent, Raphael Warnock, who later won the Jan. 6 runoff election.

Rep. Jim Jordan
The Ohio Republican objected to the Electoral College results and is one of the president's closest allies in Congress. While serving as an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State, he was accused of turning a blind eye to a team doctor who allegedly molested several athletes.

Jordan has claimed he never said the 2020 presidential election was "stolen," but a CNN fact check labeled this claim "highly misleading," noting that he spoke at a "Stop the Steal" rally in Pennsylvania two days after the election. In December, he also said he could not be convinced that "Trump didn't actually win."

Rep. Madison Cawthorn
The 25-year-old Cawthorn also objected to the Electoral College votes even after the Capitol riots. Prior to the riots, he told a crowd at a Turning Point USA event to "lightly threaten [lawmakers] and say, 'You know what, if you don't start supporting election integrity, I'm coming after you.'"

Cawthorn has since blamed Trump: "Saying we needed to march down to the Capitol was a mistake on behalf of the president." Cawthorn did not take any personal responsibility for sharing "Stop the Steal" content on his own social media accounts. During his campaign, Cawthorn faced numerous controversies, including sexual assault allegations and the resurfacing of bizarre Instagram posts from Adolf Hitler's vacation house.

Rep. Bob Good
Another objector to the Electoral College results, Good was accused of deploying racist and homophobic ads in his campaign for Congress and once called the COVID-19 pandemic "phony."

His district director was part of the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Rep. Andy Harris
After objecting to Electoral College results hours after the Capitol riots and getting called out for pushing "lies" by Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb, Harris almost got into a fistfight with Texas Rep. Colin Allred, a former NFL player.

In October 2020, Harris refused to vote for a House resolution condemning the QAnon conspiracy theory, calling it "useless."

Rep. Dan Bishop
While serving as a member of North Carolina's state legislature, Bishop was the lead sponsor of the now-infamous North Carolina 2016 "bathroom bill" that was condemned by political leaders across the political spectrum, including then-candidate Donald Trump, who said, "You leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is.”

Bishop objected to the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6.

Laura Loomer
Loomer was the Republican nominee for Florida's 21st Congressional District, a race that she lost badly. As the Daily Beast reported in November 2020, Loomer is banned from most social networks and ride-hailing services, and she's called "for the creation of a rideshare company that wouldn’t employ Muslims and a ban on Muslims holding office in the United States." Nevertheless, she was praised by President Trump and received endorsements from Roger Stone and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

In 2018, Loomer handcuffed herself to the Twitter headquarters to protest her banning from the platform. The ploy for attention did not work.

Jeanne Ives
Ives just ran for Congress, hoping to represent the Illinois 6th Congressional District (she lost her bid). Previously, she was in the Illinois House of Representatives. In 2018, during a long-shot primary race for Illinois governor, her campaign produced a racist, transphobic advertisement that was  condemned even by the Illinois Republican Party Chair — but she refused to take it down.

Ted Howze
In May 2020, Politico covered Howze's litany of offensive remarks — which were posted on social media — before he ran for Congress in California. "One post described the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a rapist and a pedophile. Another mocked a survivor of the Parkland high school shooting. A third accused Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) of 'hitting the crack pipe too hard.'" Howze claimed that the posts, which were under his name, were not written by him. He lost his congressional race by 10 points.

Claudia Tenney
Tenney is still competing to represent New York's 22nd Congressional District, which finished with a 12-vote margin in November. After the Parkland shooting in 2018, she said during a radio interview, “It’s interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats, but the media doesn't talk about that."

This week, she gave a jumbled quote about the Capitol riots: "A lot of people have some concerns [about] election integrity. I mean, I’m sitting in the middle of a case that's still undecided, the only one left in the nation, and I understand that, but there is no excuse for this kind of violence and we don’t know who caused it ultimately. We don’t know all of the facts. We have assumptions and we have some ideas and we have a trickling in of information from all sides. That’s what the body of Congress should be doing, is investigating this."

The Giants have not responded to a request for comment from SFGATE, but did send a statement to the Chronicle that read, “The San Francisco Giants strongly condemn last week’s violence and events in Washington D.C. Our organization has a longstanding policy that prohibits company campaign contributions to candidates for federal office. Individual contributions of employees and investors are considered personal in nature.”