emmagrant01: (liberal)
emmagrant01 ([personal profile] emmagrant01) wrote2005-01-11 02:50 pm

Found that list!

Be aware which corporations helped re-elect Bush. Vote with your pocketbook this holiday season. With the holidays upon us, some of us might wish to be mindful of who we patronize relative to their political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics.



Shopping?

Price Club/Costco donated $225K, of which 99% went to democrats
WalMart/Sam's Wholesale, $467K, 97% to republicans
K-Mart, $524K, 86% to republicans
Home Depot, $298K, 89% to republicans
Target, $226K, 70% to republicans
Circuit City Stores, $261K, 95% to republicans
Rite Aid, $517K, 60% to democrats
Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean), $22K, 100% to democrats
3M Co., $281K, 87% to republicans
Hallmark Cards, $319K, 92% to republicans
Amway, $391K, 100% republican
Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures), $283K, 100% republicans
Warnaco (undergarments), $55K, 73% to democrats
B.F. Goodrich (tires), $215K, 97% to republicans
Proctor & Gamble, $243K, 79% to republicans
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, $153K, 99% to democrats
Estee Lauder, $448K, 95% to democrats
Guess ? Inc., $145K, 98% to democrats
Calvin Klein, $78K, 100% to democrats
Liz Claiborne, Inc., $34K, 97% to democrats
Levi Straus, $26K, 97% to democrats
Olan Mills, $175K, 99% to democrats

Spirits?

Coors, $174K, 92% to republicans; (also Budweiser - sd)
Gallo Winery, $337K, 95% to democrats
Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel wines - as well as Lennox China, Dansk, Gorham Silver), $644, 80% to republicans
Southern Wine & Spirits, $213K, 73% to democrats
Joseph E. Seagrams & Sons (includes beverage business, plus considerable media interests), $2M+, 67% democrats.

Hungry?

Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken), $366K, 100% republican
Outback Steakhouse, $641K, 95% republican
Sonic Corporation, $83K, 98% democrat
Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), $133K, 87% republican
Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis), $242K, 83% republican
Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections),>$112K, 96% democrats
Waffle House, $279K, 100% republican
McDonald's Corp., $197K, 86% republican
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze), $121K, 89% republican

Traveling?

Hyatt Corporation, $187K, 80% to democrats
Mariott International, $323K, 81% to republicans
Holiday Inns, $38K, 71% to republicans.

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2005-01-11 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Plus, meat tastes good. I miss it a lot. For Christmas my mom bought me cruelty free, environmentally sound bacon. Mmmm. I've been rationing it :P

[identity profile] azure-k-mello.livejournal.com 2005-01-13 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
A friend of mine works for this program that goes around to schools teaching kids about the Nike sweatshops. In that speech he tells those kids not to boycott Nike because it hurts the people in the sweatshops so much more than the people in power. He says instead to buy the shoes and then cut off all the insignias on them and to send them back to the company with a note saying how deplorable they thought the company was and that they refuse to advertise for them. And actually he's a coach of some little league team so all the kids got the shoes, cut off all the stuff, made pile of them, took pictures, and then took pictures of it burning and sent that to the company too. It was kinda funny.