Progressive Insurance Chairman Lewis Donating $10 Mil. to Defeat Bush- Please Boycott! (Vanity)

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[NYC Republican]

Peter Lewis found Karl Rove's strategy for getting President George W. Bush re-elected so compelling that the billionaire businessman decided to donate $10 million -- to try to defeat Bush.

Lewis, chairman of auto insurer Progressive Corp., read in the May 12 New Yorker magazine that Rove, Bush's top political adviser, planned to pursue such traditional Democrats as Jewish voters and non-white businessmen and to limit trial lawyers' clout as donors to the party, among other tactics.

Lewis, 69, who owns $1.4 billion of Progressive's shares, and financier George Soros pledged $10 million each to a new political organization, America Coming Together. The group's aim: mobilize people to vote against the president by raising $75 million -- more money than any political committee has assembled for a campaign, aside from the Democratic and Republican national organizations themselves.

[Southack]

He gave no money to Gore, interestingly enough...

Total for this search: $94,250

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
LEWIS, PETER BEACHWOOD,OH 44122		3/1/2000	($1,000)	Kerrey, Bob
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INS COS	4/29/2000	$1,000	Campbell, Tom
LEWIS, PETER MAYFIELD VILLAGE,OH 44143	PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE/PRESIDENT	11/2/2001	$5,000	Democratic Party of Ohio
LEWIS, PETER BEACHWOOD,OH 44122	PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE CO	3/27/2000	$1,000	Nelson, Ben
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CASUALTY CO INC	6/15/1999	$250	National Assn of Independent Insurers
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE CORP	8/9/2000	$25,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE	5/28/1999	$1,000	Bush, George W
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE CORP	10/16/2002	$50,000	DNC/Non-Federal Unincorporated Assn Acct
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE CO./CEO	3/13/2000	$1,000	Nader, Ralph
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE CORP/CHAIRMAN OF TH	5/22/2002	$10,000	DNC Services Corp
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE CO./CEO	3/13/2000	$1,000	Nader, Ralph

[Southack]

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Total for this search: $510,300

Contributor	Occupation	Date	Amount	Recipient
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INS	2/15/1995	$1,000	LaTourette, Steven C
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INS	3/25/1996	$1,000	LaTourette, Steven C
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE INS CORP	6/15/1995	$1,000	Levin, Carl
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	11/19/1990	$1,000	Hyatt, Joel
LEWIS, PETER CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE CORP	4/15/1991	$5,000	Democratic National Cmte
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101		10/31/1996	$75,000	DSCC/Non-Federal Individuals
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE GROUP	2/20/1996	$15,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE GROUP	5/31/1995	$20,000	Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE GROUP	12/18/1995	$50,000	DSCC/Non-Federal Individuals
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	THE PROGRESSIVE GROUP	5/10/1996	$100,000	DSCC/Non-Federal Individuals
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101		6/19/1991	($1,000)	Cranston, Alan
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101		2/11/1992	$1,000	Kerrey, Bob
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101		7/31/1992	$10,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE GROUP	4/30/1992	$10,000	Democratic Congressional Dinner Cmte
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	4/15/1991	$20,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	8/12/1991	$100,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	4/7/1992	$50,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	6/9/1992	$50,000	DNC/Non-Federal Individual
LEWIS, PETER B MR CLEVELAND,OH 44101	PROGRESSIVE CORP	6/10/1992	$1,300	DNC/Non-Federal Individual

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for getting the word out re this left wing POS.

Well here is another left wing lunatic who will never get a nickel from me or my family.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks you just cracked the code here with the Key word being Progressive. The most vile of the liberals are those who hide under the label of Progressive. You posted, "What do you expect when your insurance company is named "progressive"?

[boxerblues]

bttt..The guy is a hopeless aging hippie with way to much money to blow

[Liz]

".......I have spent 15-plus years in intense psychotherapy of one kind of another in a continuing effort to understand myself and to prevent myself from responding to my own emotions by doing things that are counterproductive to my interests. " - Peter B. Lewis, "Business As A Creative Process," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Lecture Series, November 1986.....

Man, I had no idea he was so (gag) "in touch" with his feelings (hurl).

He oughta get together with Babs, Alec, Rosie, Terry, BilllyBoy, and the gang, for some group therapy.

[I still care]

You know, I am always struggling with my auto insurance having two teenage boys. Progressive does NOT offer the lowest rates (and I wouldn't patronize them if they did - I figured out a long time ago the company is named "progressive" for a reason.)

Look around. It took me a long time to find a really cheap company, although they raised their rates on me recently - I make it a point never to renew my auto insurance without checking out at least 4 other quotes.

And by the way, the quotes I got on the progressive and geico websites were my highest.

[SierraWasp]

"He oughta get together with Babs, Alec, Rosie, Terry, BilllyBoy, and the gang, for some group therapy."

I would only turn into some depraved toga party and sex orgy like the head of Tyco threw and video taped... IDIOTS!!!

This company furnishes evil "SUV's" to traipse around the freeways with "PROGRESSIVE" painted all over them in GREEN!!! Haven'tcha seen 'em?

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't Geico one of Buffet's companies?

[MrLeRoy]

They are the billionaires that also support all the pro-drug propaganda and intitiatives.

Soros has an agenda for total gun control. Too bad we have so many on FR working as his useful idiots.

You have never explained how agreeing with Soros on one issue forwards his other issues---and if it does, why supporting the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's pro-WOD stance doesn't also forward their pro-gun-restriction stance.

And speaking of gun control: What is your position on that issue? Have you criticized the many FR pro-WODdies who also support gun restrictions?

[MrLeRoy]

Soros, Sperling and Lewis [...] are the major funders of all the pro-drug [...] spammers.

Who and where are these "pro-drug spammers," and what is your evidence that Soros, Sperling and Lewis fund them?

[SierraWasp]

I don't know, but there sure is a War on Wall Street today, heading for the close... The Soreos boys are tryin like heck to keep us from having 3 winning days in a row!!!

[Grampa Dave]

We seem to be winning in most of the indexes, and the closing hour is not here yet.

I wonder how much money is flowing in from Europe, Asia and the middle east as they again realize the best place to invest is in America.

[Held_to_Ransom]

It seems odd. One would think that an insurance company would be against the party of lawyers, particularly when they specialize in cutting down people's auto insurance to minimum standards. I wonder if they have some kind of deal going with a staff of full time lawyers or something?

[cspackler]

Interesting, I got the exact same reply back to my email. Must be an epidemic.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

Gotta show this to She Who Must Be Obeyed.

[Will_Zurmacht]

When in college I worked at a Progressive call center. We helped folks with insurance questions, etc. Biggest bunch of freaks you can ever see. Most of the workers were college age types, but what passed for "management" were re-treads and left overs from the 60's and 70's.
Very big on their 'Gay Friendly' atmosphere, lotsa rainbow flags on the cubicles and offices, bring your 'partner' to the office party type of place.

Their office fund raisers were usually some sort of lefty hooey, from environmental cr@p, to 'birth alternatives' if ya know what I mean.
If you didn't support the stuff you were considered some sort of neanderthal.

Lotsa funny stories about that place, a mgr openly got his secretary a boob job for christmas, though their relationship was purely professional...yeah right.
The parking lot reeked of weed during lunch breaks, but this was california after all.

Odd that these do-gooding lefties main goal was to weasel as much money outta the customer as possible...hehe. Plus the call center mantra was essentially.."Get the idiot customers off the phones as soon as possible!"
Classy joint...I wasted about 6 months.

Why am I not suprised these folks are Bush hatin'?

[Las Vegas Dave]

Today's Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper reads < front page > "Lewis pledges 12 Million to oust Bush".

If I had Progressive Insurance I'd be dumping them ASAP!!!

[Las Vegas Dave]

(Dump progressive) Pings!

[GOP_Lady]

Real's CEO is also in with these guys. I've just cancelled my RealPlayer Superepass subscription and told them why.