Posted on 08/04/2004 10:49:24 AM PDT by Pikamax
Kerry Lists Endorsements From 204 Corporate Leaders (Update2) Aug. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry released a list of 204 executives who endorse his economic policies, including Oracle Corp. President Charles Phillips and David Bonderman, founder of the buyout firm Texas Pacific Group.
Kerry trailed President George W. Bush in the number of chief executives donating to their campaigns by last month. Fifty- two chief executives from Russell 1000 Index companies donated money to Kerry's campaign, compared with 280 who gave to Bush's re-election bid, according PoliticalMoneyLine, a nonpartisan group based in Washington.
Five executives on Kerry's list are scheduled to join him in Davenport, Iowa, today at what the campaign called an ``economic summit.'' In addition to Phillips, they are Owsley Brown, chief executive of Brown-Forman Corp.; Peter Chernin, chief operating officer of News Corp., which owns Fox News Channel; Charles Gifford, chairman of Bank of America Corp.; and Penny Pritzker, president of Pritzker Realty Group.
``If George Bush was the chief executive of a company, and we were the board of directors, we would have met long ago and fired him,'' Glenn Hutchins, co-founder of buyout firm Silver Lake Partners, said he tells business friends.
``I think business leaders are looking for a little more stability in the economic climate, a little less uncertainty,'' Phillips told reporters.
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``I think business leaders are looking for a little more stability in the economic climate, a little less uncertainty,'' Phillips told reporters.
Right. What he meant to say was "I think business leaders are hedging their bets because the race is so close right now."
And how many of them have ties to Heinz?
Send a copy of this to the Big Union bosses.
Of course, when Hutchins' personal buddy Bill Watkins ran Seagate Tech into the ground, and Hutchins and his fellow Seagate Board members met, they voted to give Watkins a raise.
Since they gave Watkins his $2.5MM pay package he's looking at maybe $120MM in annualized losses for the company.
In other words, Hutchins is not only a scummy, scummy liar, but he's a stupid liar to boot.
I wonder how Glenn Hutchins got his swank Silver Lake buyout firm started?
He did start the firm a little after he finished his appointment as Special Advisor to the Clinton-Gore White House transition team.
What, the article didn't mention this affiliation? I'm shocked.
I thought Bush was a tool of big business. Is Kerry now saying that given a choice of tools, he is the favored tool of big business?
``If George Bush was the chief executive of a company, and we were the board of directors, we would have met long ago and fired him,'' Glenn Hutchins, co-founder of buyout firm Silver Lake Partners, said he tells business friends.
I imagine some democrat executives would not want a CEO who would root out corruption and fraud.
Thanks for the link. "Benedict Arnold CEO's For Kerry" bump!
Lousy grammar. Similar to folks who cannot discern the difference between "your" and "you're".
He did start the firm a little after he finished his appointment as Special Advisor to the Clinton-Gore White House transition team.
What, the article didn't mention this affiliation? I'm shocked.
Excellent work! (Another Rat outed by Freeper Truth Patrol...)
I never ceased to be amazed at business executives and owners who support the fundamentally anti-business policies of the Jackass Party. One would suspect that these individuals have a financial death wish; or "financial suicide by party affililation".
Recently, here on Kauai, the local rag printed a propaganda release from our US Representative, Ed Case (cousin of AOL founder Steve Case). He trumpeted the fact that he had secured additional funding for small business loans in Hawaii. Now those of us who follow such things, such as small business owners such as myself, know that the non-payment of such loans averages about 25% and sometimes even more in certain areas. What happens is that small business owners who can not obtain loans from a bank because of the RISK involved are able to subsidize their failures with taxpayer dollars. It takes a certain amount of financial saavy to run a business, and not everyone has it.
I can easily understand the principles position of each of the 204 corporate executives who have endorsed Gigilo John. They know well from Willie's administration that, should Kerry be elected, the price of a pardon will be significantly higher. If you figure you'll need one and know you can always buy one from a dem president and by "endorsing" now, you'd get the "early bird" rate. Makes sense. Is Marc Rich on the list? How about Kushman? How about the Enron folks that Terry Kerry was going to/did hire? There has to be some celebrity types hyping Gigilo John who are qualifying for the early bird rate.
Kerry brags about being anti-corporate, courts the anti-corporate vote, then touts his corporate endorsements. Which is it, John? Are your policies going to be good or bad for corporations?
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