Costco to conservatives: Get lost

http://www.michaelmbates.com ^ | 2/26/04 | Michael M. Bates

[Modernman]

Any corporation that is involved in the sale of consumer products would do well to prohibit its officers from contributing to political campaigns

That's probably not a legal thing to do.

[international american]

BTTT

[Solson]

What about Progressive Insurance, Microsoft, AIG, Geico, and the myriad of other companies supported by leftists?

[oceanview]

what's with the link to the original article?

Don't click it folks. Now I have to run viruscan.

[Mike Bates]

The company certainly cannot fire these guys since doing so would probably constitute illegal discrimination.

I know of no EEOC regulations regarding political affiliation as a basis of discrimination. Do you?

I don't get what this writer wants.

What the writer wants is not to patronize stores whose corporate execs make huge contributions to Leftists.

[Gefreiter]

Wanna know an interesting fun fact? Costco is the country's biggest book retailer. So big that Barnes and Noble is threatened by them, and claming that big retailers like Costco edge out and compete unfairly with "little" ones like B&N!

I don't go to Costco, but I would be interested to see if the books they choose to sell reflect the attitudes of the company leadership.

[Puddleglum]

Costco is also involved in instances of chumming up with a municipality and using eminent domain to acquire property for one of its centers:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981262/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/927257/posts

[DennisR]

Just rememember that Costco is based in my home state of Washington, aka USSRW. What else can you expect from these two? We have two Democrat senators (Cant-vote-well and Osama bin Mama Murray) and a Democrat Governor (leaderless Locke). So they are just reflecting the liberal flavor of the state.

[Kerberos]

"An analyst at the Cato Institute calculated how much non-defense discretionary spending has escalated in the first three years of the Bush presidency. That figure is an eye-popping 18 percent. Some cuts."

Like I've always said, it doesn't matter if you vote Republican or Democrat, it's just a matter of which flavor of socialism you prefer.

[justshutupandtakeit]

The DemocRAT party IS an immoral institution. As immoral as I have ever seen.

[Alberta's Child]

The man is a private individual, making individual contributions and the company can't fire him over this.

If these men are identified by their affiliation with Costco, they could be fired in a heartbeat. There is a huge difference between a contribution from "Jeffrey Brotman" and "Jeffrey Brotman, Chairman, Costco Inc."

[BibChr]

Mr. Smeagol sounds like a real idiot.

But is Costco giving money to the Dims?

Dan

[Slings and Arrows]

I'd suggest running Spybot S&D too. I've had webpages try to install spyware.

[q_an_a]

for all the crying about social issues and jobs, how about the rules for employment and the country of origin of their people and products. Do they pay "living wage" ruled payments to their stock and checkout people. do they only buy american made products?

[Alberta's Child]

That's probably not a legal thing to do.

I find it hard to believe that a company could not do such a thing. Remember, I'm not talking about a company-wide policy here for all employees -- I'm talking about a policy aimed specifically at officers of the corporation. I don't think they would be covered under labor laws in the first place.

[cinFLA]

It gets worse. The hire the likes of Joyceln Elders and Danny Glover as their spokemen to the youth!

[GOP_1900AD]

The demographic of a large population of white liberals, all of who attended college and were indoctrinated by Marxist profs, during a past peak of KGB infiltration, is destroying our country. Now that the hippies are running many corporations, they are drunk with power and throwing their money at the worst possible things. It is an UTTER disaster which will take us at least 100 years to fix.

[GOP_1900AD]

The demographic of a large population of white liberals, all of whom attended college and were indoctrinated by Marxist profs, during a past peak of KGB infiltration, is destroying our country. Now that the hippies are running many corporations, they are drunk with power and throwing their money at the worst possible things. It is an UTTER disaster which will take us at least 100 years to fix.

[Publius6961]

I will go to Sam's Club
Ditto.

I may be wrong, but at least in California, Costco cards are valid at Sam's club, which leads me to believe that they both inhabit the same corporate umbrella...

[cinFLA]

Please call Costco customer service first.