Bush Backers Spurn Heinz Ketchup, Kerry Loyalists Ditch Verizon

Bloomberg.com ^ | 8/2/04 | Michael Forsythe

[Mike Bates]

Raj Narendran canceled his phone service. Michael Bates no longer buys his wife's favorite spiral ham. Michael Dobbins won't go near an interstate bank to do business.

The three are among a group of political partisans who are tailoring their shopping habits to their party affiliations. They use the Internet to track the donations of companies such as Wal- Mart Stores Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and H.J. Heinz Co.

[nmh]

CHeck it out:

"Web sites including opensecrets.org have made it easier for consumers to track big donors to candidates they don't like --and to yank their business. "

[viewfromafar]

sheesh, what pathetic losers! do politics now gain sway over every single decision we make in life? it's pathological.

[Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok]

I would be boycotting Heinz Ketchup as well if there were any other brands In Thailand that actually tasted like Ketchup. Truth is its it's an ok product created by a republican originally. I think heinz-kerry and her husband should focus more on ketchup and less on politics.

[sirchtruth]

The only people who are losers are the one's that will not act on their right to free speech!

Now that's pathetic!

[dawn53]

Well, IMHO, there are two ways you can influence what's going on in this country.

One is with your vote, and the other is with your pocketbook.

I have every right to abstain from supporting companies that support people and ideas that are not in keeping with my views.

Does it have an effect? You might ask wine producers of France if it has an effect? Or contact SlimFast and see if people's voices and a threatened boycott matter?

[Veritas et equitas ad Votum]

Does Thailand allow UPS to ship ??

[Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok]

That's awesome. Is that an actual brand? it would be great to have it in the office fridge.

[dawn53]

My sister ordered a case. She gave us a bottle yesterday.

http://www.wketchup.com/

[The G Man]

Well, I for one refuse to go to Costco after the outrageous statements that their CFO's made awhile back. If you want to donate to the other side, I'm okay with that. When you go off the reservation with Michael Moore type statements, thats when I guess I draw the line in my mind.

[mtbrandon49]

Bump for Later!

[cricket]

Time to my switch to Verizon. . .

[cricket]

That was supposed to be. . .time for my switch to Verizon.

[Veritas et equitas ad Votum]

http://www.wketchup.com

I assume it's real...

[codercpc]

I bought 4 bottles, and except for a long delivery time (they were just starting up at the time) it is excellent.

In fact I am ordering more for the future. It's taste is very much like Heinz. My 14 year old son likes it much more. He has even stopped eating ketchup if we are out and there is no choice but Heinz.

It is well worth the investment, besides if you save one of the bottles, unopened, you may have a collectors item in the future.

[GBA]

I vote every time I go shopping. I quit buying Tyson chicken during the Clinton years. And now, for the first time in my life, I bought a brand of ketchup other than Heinz.

And even if that small act doesn't have the impact I might want it to have, spending my money with my friends rather than with my political opponents makes me feel better.

[Mike Bates]

Oh, I knew what you met. . . or is that meant? :)

[kidd]

This is goofy. From the article:

Heinz CEO William Johnson supports Republican candidates, including a $1,250 donation to Bush's re- election campaign. He hasn't given to the Democratic Party or Kerry's campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records.

I believe that by boycotting Heinz that you are hurting fellow conservatives much more than Teresa Heinz.

[DallasMike]

I would be boycotting Heinz Ketchup as well if there were any other brands In Thailand that actually tasted like Ketchup.

I like that banana sauce stuff better than ketchup!

[gloworm]

Too bad there's no Trader Joe's in Thailand. We have Trader Joe markets in the Los Angeles area and our family loves their ketchup. It's nice and thick, not runny at all.