[BCrago66]

If you're going to boycott based upon, not contributions made from company coffers, but private contributions made by executives working for the company, then you're going to doing to boycotting a whole lot of products.

[Modernman]

If you're going to boycott based upon, not contributions made from company coffers, but private contributions made by executives working for the company, then you're going to doing to boycotting a whole lot of products.

I'm willing to bet that every major company has at least one corporate officer who has donated money to a cause or political candidate that conservatives would find objectional.

What should be done here? The company certainly cannot fire these guys since doing so would probably constitute illegal discrimination. I don't get what this writer wants.

[Alberta's Child]

On the other hand, this life-long New York Giants fan shedded all his hatred of the New York Jets when it was learned that Jets team owner Robert Wood Johnson IV (heir of the Johnson & Johnson fortune) was one of the major players in George W. Bush's rise to the top of the GOP in the late 1990s.

[The Electrician]

The difference is that these contributions were well publicized, not private actions, and the executives' names are strongly linked with their companies, and so they have (foolishly) used the prestige associated with the Costco name to further their political agenda with their "in your face" attitude and public posturing, and so it's perfectly reasonable to take action against Costco in response. I am planning to do likewise.

[MrB]

I think I'm with you on this.
The man is a private individual, making individual contributions and the company can't fire him over this.

If another CxO were contributing to Rep causes, would it be a problem? Would it balance out?