Top 30 Republican (US) donors with global consumer brands

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Top 30 Republican (US) donors with global consumer brands
1 MBNA $3.0m
2 Philip Morris $2.9m
3 Microsoft Corp $2.4m
4 Bristol Myers Squibb $2.1m
5 Pfizer $1.9m
6 Enron $1.8m (well at least these assholes are gone)
7 Citigroup $1.8m
8 Time Warner/AOL $1.6m
9 Amway $1.3m
10 Glaxo SmithKline $1.3m
11 Exxon Mobil $1.2m
12 News Corp $1.2m
13 General Electric $1.1m
14 Limited Inc $950k
15 BP Amoco $950k
16 American Airlines $900k
17 Schering Plough $900k
18 Anheuser Busch $850k
19 Chevron Texaco $800k
20 Revlon Group $760k
21 American Home Products $740k
22 PepsiCo $720k
23 Walt Disney $640k
24 WalMart $630k
25 Texas Utilities $630k
26 Coca Cola $610k
27 UAL Corp $570k
28 Archer Daniels Midland $530k
29 Ford $510k
30 General Motors $510k

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

put up the top democratic donors and see how many overlap

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

so is Working Assets just a right-wing front then? Cuz they're run and owned by MBNA. I don't get it.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

good idea, ryan. After a quick search I couldn't find it, someone can help?

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

SÃ©bastien, you should also make clear how those amounts were determined.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

I got that list from some internet man(tm) who must have got if from http://www.boycottbush.net/consumers.htm.

http://peace-action.inbyron.com/boycott.html website got this list too where I learned that "All calculations taken from the Center for Responsive Politics at www.opensecrets.org"

I'll check it out. PoliticalMoneyLine also seems like a good place to learn more about corporate political action committees, if it was not for the signup.

― SÃ©bastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

Enron isn't technically gone, I don't think. Just gutted.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Ha! Good luck trying to boycott all of those companies. I hope you don't take medication, or eat packaged food, or drive a car, or have a bank account.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:27 (twenty years ago)

there are plenty of other companies not on that list (not saying they might not be 31 through 500 though).

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

Or read Superman comics!

xpost

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Or use a PC, or type in Word (is WordPerfect still around?)

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

even when enron was around, it wasn't really a consumer brand, speicifically.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

who watches nbc now anyways?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Matt Leblanc and Ice-T's moms.

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

i admit that i'll watch conan every once in a while.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

but fuck lightbulbs, i'm all about candles now.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

I no longer wear Revlon makeup.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

who is this:

14 Limited Inc $950k

the clothing company?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

something makes me think this isn't entirely accurate, or up to date, and not just because it's a Chikara thread.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

hi there hstencil have you checked www.opensecrets.org ?
how accurate are they in your opinion?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

this thread is up to www.opensecrets.org now. pay attentioN?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I forgot. you don't care! you just want to have a go at me . aw.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

Ha! Good luck trying to boycott all of those companies. I hope you don't take medication, or eat packaged food, or drive a car, or have a bank account.

because those companies 0wn all medication, food, cars and banks, right.?.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

no, i checked opensecrets, i can't really make sense of it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Well the other problem is a lot of those companies own other companies... eg GE owns a lot of store credit companies.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

god, try to explain holding companies to a leftist.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Hang on since when being leftist mean one has no grasp of corporate ownership/laws/diddling?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

no, i checked opensecrets, i can't really make sense of it.

ah? is it much different than PoliticalMoneyLine http://www.fecinfo.com/ in your opinion?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Hang on since when being leftist mean one has no grasp of corporate ownership/laws/diddling?

haha it was a joke! tho yeah, let's face it, a lot of them don't know jack about shit.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

i like political moneyline. it let me see that elaine chao describes herself as an "employee" of the dept. of labor.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)

Duhghh dont mind me stence. I'm braindead lately :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

That's it. No more Amway for me.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

seriously, tho, my mom buys amway, so she'll boycott as soon as i tell her about this. we have done some good here, people.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

personally I had a good score at that ecological foot print thing
"If everyone lived like you, we would need 2.1 planets"
so I don't really need to change much of what I'm doing already. and I already have a bad opinion about how corporations are currently working.
it's interesting to me to remember how certain corporations are active politially, like coke and pepsi; it's like their branding sort of gloss it off.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

that footprint thing is rigged against city dwellers.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

amway is evil mainly b/c they are jesus-freak fundamentalists (which goes hand-in-hand with "republican" these days, but i digress). being jesus freaks ALONE means that i wouldn't spend a red cent on their shit (and, from what i've heard, amway products really ARE shit).

same reason why i don't eat at chick-fil-a ... that, and the fact that there aren't any in NYC.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

that and the fact that they're no good. plus salmonella.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

i thought that their food was pretty tasty when i last ate there (b4 i knew that they were run by fundies!) it can't be THAT much worse -- taste- and sanitary-wise -- than ranch 1!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

i dunno that. JACK IN THE BOX-related?

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

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