Guy hasn't been at Apple since Jobs canned him in '98.

If this is as accurate as they are they are worthless.

I do not get this. Is not Ben and Jerry's only contributing to DNC? Is not Susan S. and her weak husband Tim R. from Hollywood only contributing to DNC?

I mean let us play fair, shall we? If a redneck can contribute to GOP, then why not a weirdo contribute to to DNC?

Ali Karim Bey
Political Investigator and Analyst
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"Shakedown" Tom DeLay must remnain in our sites.

"The move has gotten the attention of key GOP officials, who vow to scrutinize and highlight the group's political leanings.

"A source in the healthcare industry suggested Blue Cross may pay a political price for its strategy in the wake of Republican triumphs on Election Day."

Back to the main point, the Dem's do have their own versions of large corporate sponsors. Are you willing to ditch them or minimize their impact?

I reported in a recent diary, "CEOs Go Xmas Shopping" that leaders from Tyco, Pepsi and other megacorps were recently featured in a forum on CSPAN-2, and they disparaged everyone in the business community who gave a single red cent to the DNP.

The perception exists throughout the business world, and especially in financial services, that the Fascist Party is the champion of sound business practices. This position is largely fabricated through the biased reporting of the Wall Street Journal, the National Enquirer of the economy. Sound business practices for most people will require a fair playing field for entrepreneurs, and employees of all stripes. Right now, American corporate culture crushes creativity and in the iron fist of monopolization its only avenue of profit is grown through closed door meetings with Fascist Party policymakers.

(PS: Please stop calling the enemy by any other name than their true party allegiance. They stopped being Republicans a long time ago.)

I heartily agree with Jerome's call for a boycott of companies that exclusively give (90+ percent of) their corporate contributions to Republicans.

I'm sure if we popularized this message:

I'm sure a significant fraction of the 48.13% of the electorate who voted to fire George Bush and who feel powerless about the next four years could feel empowered by this consumer action.

Maybe other people can research what the heck Coopers Industries, Flowers Industries and Timken Corporation make or do.

http://www.freenortheast.com/

PBS
BBC
The Daily Show

We're about half the country, so why don't half the news programs pander to us?!

Of course, economic boycott is a great strategy.  But it doesn't replace the necessity for a clear and broadly recognized platform -- a series of policies and initiatives which are new and inspiring and very  sound economically.  

We've got the Republicans by the cj's when it comes to economic policies and fiscal responsibility -- so why don't voters recognize that?  Why do they (and we, I think) continue to believe that a strong social safety net is necessarily bad for the economy?  On the contrary!

Swell! And when this pseudo-grassroots mob actually stops pulling in at Wendy's in their Ford Explorers, corporations will begin to listen.
No doubt about it. Europeans have been channeling their spending for political reasons for a long time now. And European corporations understand the power of losing say 2-3% marketshare. What corporations typically pay in advertising budgets to claw out that sort of marketshare is several times over the amount of their political contributions.

Hence European companies seldom try to buy an election. Those that try usually pay for their effort at the cash register.

It's too bad that American progressives haven't thought to fell the corporate contribution tree in this manner.

Such a broad boycott would be a waste of time.  It takes a lot of organization to mount a successful boycott.  Our time and resources are better spent in other ways.

We don't want their money.  We want the Democratic Party to start standing up to Corporate America and return to the economic populism that once made it the majority party in this country.

More here

"But what about the business interest?"
Well, businesses are run by individuals, right? Those individuals can donate.

The Dems need to become the anti-corporate-greed party and rely on small contributions raised from millions of working families.  This year
we showed it can be done.  And while we will welcome any traitors to their class such as Soros, joining us, we can not match the Rethugs in pandering to corporate America.

We need to get into power and enact real campaign reform - limit contributions to $100 per person per electoral race per year, and
make it a refundable tax credit (we have a $50 refundable credit in MN for state races now).  

Support expanded public funding of campaigns for candidates who qualify through raising small contributions.  

Boycotts only work when you target selectively.
Trying to boycott every company in the capitalist system isn't going to work.  Later on,
eliminating laissez-faire capitalism and instituting democratic
socialism is the way to go.