SAN FRANCISCO–Charles Johnson, one of the principal owners of the San Francisco Giants, doesn’t keep up with the news.
That’s the explanation Johnson’s attorney Joe Cotchett offered Monday when asked why Johnson and his wife Ann each donated the maximum $2,700 to the campaign of Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican U.S. Senator from Mississippi who has come under fire recently for expressing racist remarks.
“I’m not so sure that Charlie reads the paper every day the way you and I read the paper,” Cotchett said at his Burlingame office. “He reads the sports section.”
Johnson’s donation to Hyde-Smith was received November 20, several days after she said she would “be on the front row” if invited to a public hanging.