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Boycott Wendy's, Outback and other's who supported Republicans

Sat Nov 27, 2004 at 09:14:11 AM PDT

According to politicalmoneyline.com only 7% of PACs run by corporations gave predominantly to Democrats. Here is a list of those who have overwhelming favored Republicans:
Phillips Int'l. 100%
Cooper Industries 100%
Flowers Industries 100%
Harris Corp. 98%
Illinois Toolworks 97%
Outback Steakhouse 96%
ExxonMobil 96%
National City Corp. 95%
Wendy's Int' l. 93%
Anadarko Petroleum 92%
Timken Corp. 91%
Halliburton 91%
Meadwestvaco Corp 90%
Darden Restaurants Inc. 90%
Branch Banking & Trust Co 90%
Int'l Paper 90%
CATERPILLAR 89%
J.C.PENNEY CORP. INC. 89%
GOODYEAR TIRE 89%
CONOCOPHILLIPS SPIRIT 89%
SMITHFIELD FOODS INC 88%
CHEVRONTEXACO 87%
FORD MOTOR COMPANY 84%
CIGNA CORPORATION 83%
OWENS CORNING 83%
CONAGRA FOODS 83%
HOME DEPOT INC. 81%
BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 81%
3M COMPANY 80%

Here is a breakdown on which polticians received the largesse of some of the above Pacs:

Phillips Int. 100%
   Tom Coburn $5000

Cooper Ind. 100%
    Pete Coors $5000
    Mel Martinez $5000

Flowers 100%
    Tom Coburn $5000
     GWB  $5000 (none to Kerry)

Harris 98%
    Mel Martinez $5000
    GWB  $5000

Outback 97%
    Jim Bunning $10000
    Pete Coors $10000
    Katherine Harris $5000

Wendy's  90%

Darden 90%

ExxonMobile
   Jim Bunning $5000
   Tom DeLay  $7675
    Katherine Harris  $5000

Home Depot 81%
   Jim Bunning $5000
    Pete Coors $5000
    Tom Delay   $5000
    Istook $2000

Goodyear 89%
     Tom Coburn $5000
      Tom DeLay  $5000
      Istook  $5000

Ford Motor  85%
     Jim Bunning $10000
     Istook $5000
     GWB $5000 (none to Kerry)

Cigna 84%
    Jim Bunning $7500  
    Rick Santorum  $5000
    Tom DeLay $7000
     Katherine Harris  $2500

While Wendy's has always been my favorite burger joint, I propose that we boycott Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Goodyear, Ford, Home Depot, J.C.Pennys  Cigna Insurance, Chevron, Texaco, Exxon and Mobile until they even out their giving between Republicans and Democrats.

I have no idea who Darden Restaurants is.

I know many love to go to the one stop shop of Home Depot, but I suggest that we frequent the smaller hardware stores or patronize Lowe's if it is in your area. Then we tell them why we are doing this.

Ford, Goodyear, Home Depot, Cigna and Exxon contributions to Tom Delay and sometimes Istook are just plain sickening. Exxon and Cigna supporting Katherine Harris is beyond insulting. How do we we organize this boycott?

BTW I got this list from mydd.

Update: If you want to propagate this boycott discussion then please reccomend this diary entry.

Update: To vote who to boycott take this poll.

Poll

Do you plan on boycotting these companies?

40%13 votes
43%14 votes
12%4 votes
3%1 votes

| 32 votes | Vote | Results

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