Posted on 04/17/2015 12:01:10 PM PDT by Steelfish
Corporations That Sponsor Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention
by JILLIAN KAY MELCHIOR April 17, 2015
Despite questions of the Rev’s financial irregularities and allegations of shakedowns, they support him. Several big corporations sponsored the annual convention last week for National Action Network, Al Sharpton’s in-the-red nonprofit, according to a list obtained by National Review. Sponsors included AT&T, Viacom, Walmart, Perennial Strategy Group, Combs Enterprises, Comcast Corporation, McDonald’s, Ronald Perelman, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Forest City Ratner, Time Warner Cable, Barney’s, Coca-Cola, Essence Communications, Ford Division, Home Depot, Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the NBA, Verizon, Colgate Palmolive, Macy’s, NASCAR, OraSure Technologies Inc., Best Buy, Greentrack Inc., the IM Foundation, Con Edison, and Entergy. Most of the sponsors in this list failed to respond or declined when NR sent inquiries regarding their sponsorship and whether it could be considered an endorsement of National Action Network.
The 2015 convention listed 35 sponsors, fewer than previous events have boasted. Sharpton’s 60th birthday bash featured at least 45 sponsors—ranked at levels including “activist,” “preacher,” “hair,” and “track suit”—and raised around $1 million for the nonprofit, according to the New York Daily News and records reviewed by NR. A 2012 event listed 42 sponsors; a 2010 event
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Boycott?
All the usual suckers uhhh suspects.
NASCAR? Why? Extortion is still illegal yaknow..
Do they support killing cops too?
Shakedown list!
It be protection. They got no colored teams.....
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Give the capitalists enough rope and they’ll hang themselves- Lenin
Reverand?? Neither Al nor Jesse completed divinity school, neither has ever had a congregation, neither has ever had a church, so why the “Rev” title? From Tawana Brawley to the Duke Five, both have come down on the wrong side of the truth, but never admit wrong. Al was “ordained” at age 10 by a DC preacher and has maintained the lie ever since. Both men are professional pot stirrers and don’t deserve a jot in history.
It’s a tax exemption on income.
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