A Guide To Consumer Brands Helping Bankroll Right-Wing Attack Ads

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http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/19/543801/consumer-brands-conservative-attack-ads/

Have you eaten at White Castle recently? Or caught a movie at Regal Cinemas?

If so, you may be unwittingly helping finance right-wing attack ads.

That’s because many of the country’s most common brands are run by rich conservatives who are using their personal wealth to bankroll outside spending groups that are running attack ads smearing progressives. From Marriott Hotels to Brawny paper towels, and from the Los Angeles Lakers to the Coachella music festival, corporate executives at these organizations have given millions of dollars to groups like Mitt Romney’s Super PAC Restore Our Future.

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The following list of consumer brands either have leaders who wrote checks to outside right-wing attack ad groups or gave money directly from the corporation. Only entities that gave $25,000 or more were included in this guide.

[Scuba]

1. John Menard must want his taxes even lower. Oh, wait...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10843824

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Don't deal with any of those. n/t

[Rambis]

3. I'm clean

been going to lowe's instead of the other one

[Xyzse]

4. Dangit...

I have to move from Schwab to elsewhere.
Any suggestions?

[bahrbearian]

5. Thanks, Bookmarked

[VenusRising]

6. Crap! Not Blue Bell!

That was about the only perk about being back in Texas.

I guess I have to find a different ice cream.

[katsy]

8. Contains rBst or rGbh

One of those growth hormones.

You're better off without it.

[Curtland1015]

7. Like I needed another reason to hate the Lakers!

Sad about Regal Cinemas though... my wife and I go there all the time.

[BamBamBane]

9. Freakin Lakers suck sneaker scum

Has been RepubliWankers is what they are...

[Dustlawyer]

10. Shit, Blue Bell ice cream was my favorite! Damn!

The others I can and have done w/o. Add Chick Fil-A to the list.

[MelissaB]

13. Yep! Our favorite was the homemade vanilla.

Ain't nothing like it.

[SoCalDem]

11. The problem is this...

The 1% OWN PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING..

Think you are buying organic? think again.. and this chart (see link) is not even up to date.. It's probably worse now..

http://www.cornucopia.org/who-owns-organic/


and then there's Bain & their subsidiaries.. (there are probably a LOT more because Bain is a Hydra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bain_Capital_companies

[hifiguy]

12. Not White Castle!

I gotta have my slider jones addressed a few times a year.....

[tonybgood]

14. Can you say "BOYCOTT"!!!

I'm sick and tired of hearing that business is about making money and nothing else. If that's true, stay out of politics!!!

[RebelOne]

15. I do not buy any of those products

or patronize any of those businesses.

[JDPriestly]

16. I think this list is very incomplete. But thanks for the good start.

[LeftyMom]

17. Ugh. NB is the only option for US-made athletic shoes.

They don't make much money off of me though, the shoes are very slow to wear out.

edit: A NEW REASON TO HATE THE LAKERS???!!?! Not that a Sacramentan ever needs one.

[kimbutgar]

18. Every since rmoney got the nomination I have not stayed at a Marriott

I have been boycotting Georgia Pacific and their household products since last year.

[Botany]

19. you forgot

[Zambero]

22. Ah yes, The Home Despot!

Been steering clear of the big orange menace for some time now.

[Bertha Venation]

29. Home Depot supports the "homosexual agenda"

and is being boycotted by right-wingers such as the AFA because of it.

This article is from last year, but Home Depot continues to support us. I will continue to shop there.

http://tinyurl.com/3d85dbp

[Squinch]

20. You rock! I'm saving this.

Thank you very much!

[sakabatou]

21. Never had any of those.

[Bertha Venation]

23. A quick glance at maplight.org shows that Marriott

has contributed to the campaigns of several House and Senate Democrats.

I intend to keep patronizing Marriott because of their exemplary customer service. And I intend to keep wearing New Balance shoes because they're the best that I've found. I make no apology.

[flamingdem]

24. Schwab? I thought they had more class

guess not

[Tanuki]

25. Don't forget Papa John's Pizza!

The owner, John Schnatter, had a big fund raiser for Mutt at his mansion a couple of months ago. Mutt gave him a shout out the other day, and lied through his teeth that President Obama said Papa John didn't create Papa John's Pizza.

[freshwest]

26. NEW BALANCE shoes is on the list! I'm disappointed. I don't use any of those others.

Maybe we should encourage the only American-made shoe manufacturer to stop funding the reich wing. I'd been promoting the sales of their shoes to everyone that I knew, but I don't need to help them cut our throats.

http://www.newbalance.com/Public-Relations/about_public_relations,default,pg.html

[DainBramaged]

27. Dunkin-Dounts, owned by Bain and Carlyle

[Dalai_1]

30. Oh Noooo

surely not Dunking-Donuts

[ananda]

28. Ouch!

That hurts.

[DBoon]

31. Coachella????

Oh no!

[gopiscrap]

32. Thanks for the info

too bad we can't get protesters at these sites, so when progressives drive up and see that they go some where else!