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Companies bail out on GOP convention after facing pressure
AP ^ | July 9, 2016 | Brandon Bailey

Posted on 07/09/2016 12:08:34 PM PDT by EveningStar

Donald Trump has promised to liven up this year's Republican National Convention. But some of America's biggest corporations are bailing on the party.

Apple recently became the latest company to give the GOP's presumptive nominee the cold shoulder; it won't contribute money or products to the Republicans' big shindig in Cleveland this month. HP Inc. is also withholding support, while Microsoft is giving products only, not cash. Beyond the tech industry, Ford, JPMorgan Chase and United Parcel Service have opted to withhold support.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: cleveland; convention; gop; republicans
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To: magna carta
I will dig it out, and post it next week. The Lodge speech was in the course of the debate over the League of Nations. While Lodge never joined the irreconcilables in outright opposition to the League, he did allow them to keep the debate going until they won America to their position.

But the speech in its own right, addressed an unfortunate mindset, which has become sadly common place, in recent decades, among Corporate top brass.

41 posted on 07/09/2016 12:51:43 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: EveningStar

They will pay later when nobody is watching.


42 posted on 07/09/2016 12:51:43 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump, or no more republicans)
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To: central_va

Because when the federal government targets something for punishment, it always ends up punishing something else. That’s just the way it is.


43 posted on 07/09/2016 12:54:29 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: EveningStar

Terrorism at it’s best! Forcing people to react to possible violence whether it is threatened or not. And you don’t see this happening to Hilary, do you?

red


44 posted on 07/09/2016 12:54:38 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: 1rudeboy
Tariffs will cause inflation and decrease the profit margins for the importer. Domestic producer will see their profit margins increase. Domestic production will be on the ascent and foreign production will be on the descent. As it should be. It will take time to defeat this evil globalism. It wont be a quick fix. But the alternative is economic death and socialism/Communism.

How do I know you not a Marxist? You and him agree on a lot of things.

45 posted on 07/09/2016 1:03:15 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EveningStar

This is a positive thing. It gets these people out in the open.


46 posted on 07/09/2016 1:08:31 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: 1rudeboy

Are you going to vote for Trump?


47 posted on 07/09/2016 1:09:08 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EveningStar

Don’t know. I just am angry at the obvious bias. There ought to be a price to pay for bigotry.


48 posted on 07/09/2016 1:10:16 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 1rudeboy

True.


49 posted on 07/09/2016 1:10:48 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: central_va
Incidentally, when you mention Marx, it's a signal that you've strayed away from your limited grasp of economics.

And here I sit, 20 minutes by car (the one Trump complains about) from Wayne Assembly (the plant Trump complains about), enjoying a rare weekend off from my manufacturing job (that Trump does not care about). Nor you.

50 posted on 07/09/2016 1:11:27 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

Of course. Anyone but Hillary. I’m a GOPe globalist, that way [snort].


51 posted on 07/09/2016 1:13:04 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Must kill you to vote for an American patriot.


52 posted on 07/09/2016 1:14:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: EveningStar

Surprise, surprise, surprise!


53 posted on 07/09/2016 1:15:03 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Ohioan; magna carta
Is this it?

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/nfor:@field(DOCID+@range(90000014+90000015))

54 posted on 07/09/2016 1:15:37 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: central_va

Actually, voting for Trump will bore me. As you do.


55 posted on 07/09/2016 1:25:47 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: dfwgator

.........just did. Though I’ve been singing the praises of Ford for not borrowing from taxpayers to save itself, it’s cowardice and political manipulation and meddling like this from corporations that pisses me off. The F150 I was about to buy will now be a Tundra. Hopefully a few hundred thousand more will get cancelled.


56 posted on 07/09/2016 1:25:55 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Dont worry, Trump’s working on it.


57 posted on 07/09/2016 1:29:26 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: SoFloFreeper
Yes, I believe that it is. Certainly the third paragraph is precisely one that I remember. My specific reference, before was to this:

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike, provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. National I must remain and in that way I, like all other Americans, can render the amplest service to the world.

58 posted on 07/09/2016 1:30:13 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: EveningStar

Companies I’m boycotting bump for later....


59 posted on 07/09/2016 1:36:20 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: EveningStar

PERFECT! A list made without even making up a list.


60 posted on 07/09/2016 2:58:45 PM PDT by crz
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