Monday, April 23, 2007

Corporation donations to this last 2006 election

Tengrain of Mock Paper Scissors has a fantastic graphic.

Did you know that Barnes and Noble gave 81% of their $129,680 to the Democrats? But Curves gave 100% of $177,300 to the Republicans. Good to know who to do business with!

5 comments:

Steve Bates said...

Considering that no corporation, not even a bookstore chain, does anything that does not involve a monetary interest, can one follow the implications in reverse? I.e., does this mean that B&N has a proprietary study stashed away that shows that Democrats read more books than Republicans? :)

Sinfonian said...

I saw a car the other day with a "Vote Democratic" bumper sticker and a sticker that said "I [heart] Curves."

I nearly pulled the woman over to explain exactly what she was funding with her Curves membership.

IIRC, the owner of Curves is of the most batshit fundie wingnut variety.

ellroon said...

Oh, great. How many other batshit fundie wingnut businesses are out there that I must put on my list not buy from?

Btw, Eric Prince is also a major fundie who has funneled megabucks into the Blackwater/Cheney/Fundamentalist connection.
http://rantsfromtherookery.blogspot.com/2007/04/origins-of-blackwater.html

Anonymous said...

Ellroon -

There are many sites dedicated to tracking who is blue or who is red. I generally use buyblue.org for my shopping decisions.

After the 2004 election, for instance, I have not made a single purchase from Amazon.

Regards,

Tengrain

PS - thanks for the linky luv.

ellroon said...

Didn't know that, thanks!

Buyblue.org it is!