Posted on 04/11/2012 4:50:35 PM PDT by STARWISE
Let’s stipulate: Activists on the left are free to exercise their rights of speech and assembly to boycott businesses whose politics they oppose. Conversely, activists on the right are free to exercise the power of their pocketbooks and refrain from supporting businesses that shun their values.
So, what are you waiting for, conservatives? There are coordinated shakedowns taking place right now that involve some of America’s most prominent companies who’ve chosen to surrender to progressive bullying and race-card opportunism. Silence is complicity.
On Tuesday, McDonald’s told liberal magazine Mother Jones that the company had “decided to cut ties with ALEC, the corporate-backed group that drafts pro-free-market legislation for state lawmakers around the country.”
The fast-food conglomerate follows in the feckless footsteps of Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intuit (maker of Quick and Quicken Books software) and Kraft Foods — which have all withdrawn support for ALEC after drum-banging from Color of Change.
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DRIVE THRU THEIR DRIVE-THRUS JUST TO TELL THEM THEY STINK.
If you search my posts to read the ones where I advocated taking action against Coke and Quicken Loans the hand-wringing by Freepers who were too “civilized” to take that kind of action would sicken you. The Left is winning for a reason.
It does no good unless you bombard them with messages and signatures that their socialist politics are being boycotted in an organized way. They will then see the connection to their sales. Use the Tea Party to communicate about boycotts of leftist corporations and businesses.
Running an ad on the socialist CEO’s of various companies to boycott is what you need to do to put the fascists back in their cages. Make entering into leftist politics painful.
Can you post what monies they have donated to lib causes?
Also, the acronym GEICO stands for Government Employees Insurance Company.
Finally, Ally Bank was formerly known as GMAC. Obviously, after President Urkel took over GM, they had to put on a mask.
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How can that not be on any list?
If you work hard you can find “Moxie” for sale to replace your Coke or Pepsi.
What happened was that bank bailout funds were only available to companies that were exclusively banks. GMAC had to separate from GM to qualify. A lot of credit unions also separated from their parent company.
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