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

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[Pro-Agency]

I also worked for Progressive in the late &0's / early 80's. Ironically, as I was rapidly "moving up" amongst the claims ranks, one of the reasons I left was because I didn't like the "political" games played within the company. You definitely wanted to be on the "right side" if you were going to keep moving up over the long haul. Another ironic note - this supposedly enlightened company (and yes, Progressive is THE BEST at determining marketing niches)was not so enlightened in it's early days. I remember my boss (a long time Progressive employee who started with them I believe in the early sixties) telling me how they used to code claims with an "x" to indicate when the insured was a minority (specifically blacks), so they could know when to try to settle claims for less. Wouldn't Mr. Peace, Love, and Joy be found to be quite bigoted if any of those old records could ever be dug up?

[trikeryder]

Over the past 2 renewals, (2004 & 2005), Progressive has run my motorcycle insurance up from $105 to $150, an increase of 50%, no claims, safe driving certifications for both my wife & myself, no adverse DMV reports. Called the company yesterday (2/23/2005) and questioned the increase. Some smart @$$ bimbo remarked when I told her I refuse to fund the democratic contributions of Peter Lewis was as follows, "Mr Lewis has donated monies to the DNC out of his own pocket and has no bearing on your insurance rates!" My simple reply to that was, "How do you think Mr Lewis came to have $10 million in his own pocket? By me paying my insurance premiums to Progressive" She ignored my remark and tried to return to some canned response to my increase question. I stated very simply that I will find another company to insure my cycles, then hung up the phone on her. BTW, how much did your insurance go up?