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djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. Well, cheer up! Under current and proposed trade agreements, a foreign-owned corporation
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:37 AM
Mar 2015

who may lose profits due to boycotts of businesses in Indiana might take Indiana to court in order to overturn that disgusting law! Or, more likely, make it illegal to boycott businesses in Indiana by demanding that any labels or clues to location are deleted in some way. Have all businesses incorporate in Delaware, like the banks.

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)
2. Why are all major moving companies in Indiana, I wonder, Moving as in moving your belongings
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:40 AM
Mar 2015

from one house to another.

I missed out on the law you are talking about, hate gays law I assume

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
7. For many years
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:20 PM
Mar 2015

they used to have signs all along every highway that said, "Hoosier Hospitality Is No Accident". I had a friend who was pretty universally unPC who always responded at the sight of one of those signs... "Hoosier Hospitality Is No Accident? Hell no, they breed 'em like that!"

My apologies to anyone who might be offended by that but my friend said it often enough for me to recall it to this day. There have been times when I couldn't argue in favor of legislative decisions that impacted the population of that state and all who ventured into it. The blessing was that it's only 130 or so miles to get across it from east to west.

Ms. Toad

(34,076 posts)
5. If you are suggesting boycotting these companies,
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 10:58 AM
Mar 2015

It would be a good idea to use the list in conjunction with the HRC buyer's guide, so you aren't punishing good companies for not having good enough psychic abilities to predict that Indiana would be the target of ire about how it treats LGBT individuals years, perhaps decades, after it decided to make its home there.



GreatGazoo

(3,937 posts)
8. Donors to Pence campaign: Aztra Zeneca, J&J, Nestle'
Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:33 PM
Mar 2015
Corporations can give directly to Indiana candidates, but are limited to $5,000 donations. Drug giant AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have each given $2,500 and Nestle USA has given $5,000 to the Pence campaign since January. These same companies gave $350,000, $25,000, and $12,500 donations respectively to the RGA’s 527 organization in the same time period.


http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/07/26/10229/million-dollar-donation-indiana-race-may-skirt-limits-corporate-giving
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