A list of companies to avoid

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[JosephW]

Dark Blue: 80% or higher Buy Blue rating Light Blue: 56-79% Buy Blue rating Neutral: 45-55% Buy Blue rating Light Red: 21-44% Buy Blue rating Dark Red: 20% or lower Buy Blue rating

[JosephW]

Here is a list of donors to the Rat party by percent given

[goldstategop]

What? No buyred.org? What a shame.

[GoldenOrchid]

Bluest Companies



Aloha Air Group, Inc. 100%
Borders Group, Inc. 100%
Diamond Resorts International 100%
Foot Locker, Inc 100%
Google Inc. 100%
Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. 100%
Loews Hotels Holding Corporation 100%
Powell's Books, Inc. 100%
Progressive Corporation 100%
Starbucks Corporation 100%
Trader Joe's Company, Inc. 100%
Whole Foods Market, Inc. 100%
Costco Wholesale Corporation 99%
Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc 97%
Hyatt Hotels and Resorts 93%
Hilton Hotels Corporation 84%
JetBlue Airways Corporation 75%
Netflix, Inc 72%
Brown-Forman Corporation 57%
Yahoo! Inc. 47%
Alaska Air Group, Inc. 45%

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Reddest Companies

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Cintas Corporation 100%
Dollar General Corporation 100%
Fruit of the Loom 100%
Lowe's Companies, Inc. 100%
Outback Steakhouse, Inc. 92%
CBRL Group, Inc. 84%
Darden Restaurants, Inc. 79%
Hallmark Cards, Inc. 14%
Adolph Coors Company 16%
Brinker International, Inc. 16%
Marriott International, Inc. 17%
Shell Oil Company 17%
YUM! Brands, Inc. 21%
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC 25%
Guess?, Inc 27%
Amazon.com, Inc. 41%

[buckeyesrule]

OK. So I will go to Red Lobster (Darden) order a Coors beer and try to get the waitress to come back to my Mariott hotel room....LOL! Just kidding!

[AQGeiger]

Alas, none of the "blue" companies listed are any to which I ever given my money.

[JoeSixPack1]

There's too much consumin' goin' on 'round here!!

[Brian328i]

Theres another site that has alot more companies but I forget the name.

Wow Lowes is 100% donor to the Republicans? Seems like only small amounts but they went up in my book.

[JoeSixPack1]

You could get a waiter! :(

[gscc]

Just emailed and thanked them for letting me know which red companies to support and which blue companies to boycott.

[cmsgop]

Good Point!

[KoRn]

Enjoy a Bloomin' Onion at Outback. (I've never cared for their steaks)

[ProudVet77]

Switched from Google to Altavista. Not guite as good, but plenty good for my needs.

[beckysueb]

Walmart, Kmart and Target contributed heavily Republican, too. Starbucks to the Dems? Who would have ever guessed!

[seastay]

Dont forget the Ford Foundation bankrolled the creation of anti american groups like the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza, expanded the role of established leftwing groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and has promoted radical Marxist organizations – overtly hostile to American values and purposes --

Also other compaines involved (Doners from pages 15 and 16 of MALDEF's annual report):

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS PLATINUM PARTNERS: $100,000+
Anheuser-Busch Companies
The Ford Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Sandler Family Supporting
Foundation
Soros Foundation
Washington Mutual
GOLD PARTNERS: $50,000 ú $99,999
America's Charities
California Community Foundation
Center for Law in the Public Interest
The Gerber Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Levi Strauss Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
The Rosenberg Foundation
The State Bar of California
SILVER PARTNERS: $10,000 ú $49,000
AT&T
Bank of America
BELO Corporation
BP
Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P
The Bravo Foundation
The California Endowment
The Coca-Cola Company
Fannie Mae Foundation
Ford Motor Company
Fried, Frank Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
The Gas Company, A Sempra Energy
Company
General Motors Corporation
Health Care Service Corporation
Intercultural Development Research
McDonald's Corp.
Motorola, Inc
NBC4 / Telemundo 52
Prudential Financial
Shell Oil Company
Southern California Edison
Southwest Airlines
Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation
Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc.
TXU Corporation
Tyson Foods, Inc
Univision Television Group, Inc.
Verizon Communications, Inc.
Walt Disney Company
Wells Fargo & Company
.
BRONZE PARTNERS: $1,000 ú $9,999
AARP
Abbott Laboratories Fund
The Abernathy/McGregor Group
AFL-CIO
The Ahmanson Foundation
AIG Invesment LLC
American Federation of Teachers
Amigas de MALDEF
AOL Time Warner, Inc.
Automobile Club of Southern California
Azteca Foods
Blockbuster Inc.
The Boeing Company
California Commerce Bank
California Healthcare Foundation
California Hospital Medical Center
California State University Foundation
California Teachers Association
Callejo & Callejo Law Firm
CBS WBBM-TV
CBS2 / KCAL9
Chicago Community Trust
Citigroup Business Services
Coastal Securities LP
ConocoPhillips, Inc.
Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.
Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
Cummins Engine Foundation
DaimlerChrysler Corp. Fund
Deloitte & Touche
Deutsche Bank
Diageo North America, Inc.
Dreamworks SKG
Edison International Corp.
Fannie Mae
Gloria Molina For Supervisor
Goldman Sachs & Company
H.E.Butt Grocery Company
The Hearst Service Center
Houston Community College System -
Southeast College
Irell & Manella, LLP
J.P. Morgan Chase
KB Home
KTLA 5
KTTV Fox 11
L.A. Dept. of Water and Power
La Agencia De Orci y Asociados
Law Offices of Francisco G. Medina
Law Offices of Frank Herrera, Jr.
Law Offices of Nicholas R. Allis
Linebarger Goggan et al.
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Los Angeles Times
McDonald's Hispanic Operators
Association.
Nissan North America, Inc.
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
PipeVine, Inc.
Ramirez & Co. Inc.
Ramona's Food Products, Inc.
Rangel Cosulting
Reliant Energy
San Antonio Express News
SEIU Local 660
Seyfarth Shaw Attorneys
Shapleig For Senate Campaign
Soza & Company LTD.
St. Mary's University School of Law
State Farm Insurance
Strasburger & Price LLP
Taco Bell Corp. (YUM! Brands, Inc.)
Texas A&M University at Kingsville
Texas A&M University Foundation
Texas Association of Higher Education
Trinity University
UFCW Local 881
Union Bank of California
United Way of Lake Area
United Way of the Bay Area
University of California Los Angeles
University of Chicago
University of Houston
University of Notre Dame
University of Southern California
USAA Foundation
Walgreens Company
Wal-Mart Foundation

http://ccir.net/REFERENCE/MALDEF-2002-2003.html

[NonValueAdded]

This could get a little complicated ... for example, Aloha Air Group, Inc. is listed as 100% but only because of contributions to the reelection fund for Sen. Inouye - nothing for Kerry! Quite frankly, a Hawaiian company would be fools to not contribute to the very senior senator. It's the Kerry contribution or non-local RAT (such as Daschle) that would be the requirement to make my buy-red list.

Also, one must be careful to separate the actions of headquarter types from the rest of the company. As long as the liberal slant doesn't translate into corporate action - such as Target's choice of charitable contributions, for example - then you might find yourself targeting a company with a blue hq but with lots of red state operations.

I wonder what recourse companies have against sites that erroneously target them?

[Free and Armed]

Oh my Lord! The Democrats recieving money from corporations??? I thought that was evil! I could care less which political parties stores donate to. It's not like they won the election anyways ;)