Posted on 09/19/2007 2:47:01 PM PDT by bw17
Just a heads up if you're shopping for lunch meats between now and election 2008. The owner of Boar's Head brand lunch meats is a *HUGE* donor to the DNC. He has given nearly $200,000 to the DNC since 2003...and nearly $900,000 to Democratic 527 groups in 2004.
In 2004, I posted to another forum that he was a very large donor to the Democratic party, and I stated that I was boycotting his brand. Surprisingly, he actually posted a response on the forum, and stated that his "days of political contributions" were over.
Apparently, he lied: http://opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=xh9as&txtName=brunckhorst,%20frank&txtState=(all%20states)&txtAll=Y&Order=N
If you're buying his products, you're funding members of the Democratic party, including Hillary Clinton. Just an FYI.
Full of MSG and nitrates, and overpriced... easy boycott.
Their lunch meats’ are overpriced.
I used to be up for many of these boycotts, but it started to get silly.
I take it you never go to the movies or buy DVDs.
LOL, I understand.
The last time I watched O'Reilly, he was in the process of throwing up his hands, rearing back in his chair, and blurting out "That's it! I'm calling for a boycott!"
I laughed at the pinhead, thinking he had the power to call for a boycott. What, somebody made him King or something?
My point is that I believe that withholding our $ (or threatening to) from any business is one of the few ways that individuals may be able to influence a business.
However, boycotts can also have a downside, and shouldn't be initiated lightly. One of the posters rightly pointed out that you might boycott a democratic business owner, while putting a whole lot of Republican/Conservative workers on the unemployment line.
It is a rightful power of the consumer, but like all power, should be wielded intelligently, and with as much knowledge as possible of the unintended consequences.
To be the owner of a Boar's Head who has to face a political police force, one day, holding a state order seizing control of the business "for the good of the peasants and workers".
I don’t buy Ben and Jerry or Tyson’s if that’s better. ;-)
I can’t understand how the owner of any business would support Democrats.
Yes, money talks.... It amazes me that people are so ignorant that they cant realize that when you buy a product you are also voting for how they spend their profits. Their are alternatives to almost every product out there, Boars head or whatever you guys make Im sure there is a comparable product that I can feel good about using with sacrificing my morals. Hey if you dont have a moral conscience and could care less that some company gives gobs of money to the left then fine, but others like myself would rather support companies who not only care about the product that they provide but also where they donate their profits.
I went to high school near their plant. One guy worked there after class and when he was going to college. His father and uncle, both Polish immigrants, worked there full time. It is great food.
I got a feeling this the founding sons of the founding fathers syndrome. Papa (or grand dad or great^N grand dad) Bruckhorst started the company and the idiot descendants live off the great business their ancestors started.
The Democrats attract the “status quo” rich, people who are afraid of social mobility. Bruckhorst doesn’t want a lot of Hoi Polloi crowding the beach on Nantucket.
That wasn’t a yes or no question, it was an either or, either support the company because you give me (a conservative) money or don’t support the company because you give my boss (a liberal) money. Which is the core of your problem. If a company has more than 100 employees you can pretty much guarantee there’s at least one GOP donor and one Dem donor on the roster, so if you boycott them because of the Dem donor you’re also taking money away from the GOP donor.
Funny you call somebody else ignorant after demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the English language. Pot, meet kettle.
I’m sure if you looked up the donation history of all the employees of any competitor of Boar’s Head you’d find Dem donors there too. Of course if you looked up the donation history of all the Boar’s Head employees you’d find GOP donors. You grossly over simplify things to make yourself feel superior, but out here in reality your boycott accomplishes nothing.
I have a moral conscience, one that doesn’t need to be fluffed up with moronic “boycotts” that do nothing. And the more insults you throw the more it proves this is really just about your EGO not your conscience, not your beliefs, not anything but your sad desperate need to feel superior.
I’ll only boycott if they are jerks about it. Ben & Jerry’s (former?) owners are hateful liberals. Paul Newman has said some pretty hateful things about the president the last couple of years - those are the guys I boycott.
Or if they hire full-blown liberal flamethrower as their spokesman (remember Whoopi Goldberg and Slimfast?). Chevrolet has that annoying Johnny Cougar Mellencamp song during every commercial of every football game I seem to watch. Knowing the hate he’s spewed since 2000, I wonder why Chevrolet chose him. It’s definitely influenced me to not even consider a Chevy for my next car (which I am now in the market for).
But if they just donate money, or campaign for them without attacking and being angry - I personally have no problems with that.
Boar’s Head is by far the best deli meat available, so until someone else comes along I’ll keep buying it.
I never really worried about Ben & Jerry though I have grown away from their ice cream lately (their mixes got weird, and the other companies are doing nice mixes). Never thought Newman’s food was any good in the first place, and never touched Slimfast even when I needed to lose weight. Chevy and Dodge I boycott not because of the content of their commercials but the quantity, like you said they seem to be in every commercial break of every football game (and hockey and every other sporting event I watch), and I figure if they spend that much on commercials it must not leave a lot of money for quality. Also with all that saturation they only seem to put out two or three commercials at a time, if you’re going to buy a dozen ad slots in one game you should at least have half a dozen different commercials.
Overall I’ve found that the companies that really take it too far tend to give you other good reasons not to buy their products. Like Chevy, there are so many good reasons not to consider them just pick one and roll with it, John Mellencamp is as good as any of the rest.
How strange--even his name Frank Brunckhorst sounds like a deli meat selection.
No more of my cash is going his way.
Misunderstanding here. The “donation” actually was a licensing fee for the right to use Ted Kennedy’s likeness for the promotion of the product line....
I know someone that worked for them. She did accounting and quit because they paid many of the employees cash, under the table - no records kept.
I’ve never bought any of it before but checked out the ingredients on a package last time I was at the store. I always look for the nitrates/nitrites...and they were there.
I don’t know who makes them, but there are lunch meats available that don’t have any of that junk in them. I prefer those.
“So is that the brand most grocery store delis have? Thats where I buy my lunchmeat but I haven’t a clue as to the brand name.”
Every big chain grocery store has its own brand that is usually the cheapest. Then you have the premium brands like Boar’s Head. When you go to the store next just look in the glass cabinet and each meat and cheese should have the brand name on it. I would suggest trying Boar’s Head Sharp Cheddar. It literally melts in your mouth.
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