Posted on 08/09/2012 3:23:34 PM PDT by BRL
In an election year filled with secret campaign money, the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has made the unlikely choice to go public with a big political donation.
The Ohio-based company, familiar as the producer of a ubiquitous plant fertilizer, is now a political player, donating $200,000 in June to the Restore Our Future super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Good that they didn’t support filthy Obama.
I have used their Miracle-Gro for most of my life and will continue to do so.
Good their bread and butter is real Americans. Not to mention that James Whitmore pitched their products.
Sound off...Cadence call 1.2.3.4.12...34.
I have bought their products in the past and will continue to do so.
Can’t wait to tell my son and son-in-law. They both work at the Scott’s plant here in Missouri.
Isn’t Miracle-Gro just welfare for plants?
If the libs boycott they’ll have to use poop!
(hee-hee)
Liberals don’t raise gardens, they wait for someone else to do the work then they insist on thir fair share.
Just like Jiminy Cricket./
Scotts products work well, and my experience says they are significantly better than the cheaper store brands.
Particularly the crabgrass preventer.
They will get all my business from now on.
Not me! This is the same company who fires workers for smoking at home. They can give all the money they want to republicans but they aren’t supportive of freedom and they aren’t supportive of conservative values.
Yes, worthy indeed, but being that it is Thursday night, I thought I’d mention and link the thread in tomorrow’s thread.
They fire employees who do not quit smoking and refuse to hire anyone who smokes.
I will NEVER do business with them. I don't care who they politically support.
Thank you for supporting a company that does not believe in private property rights and fires employees who engage in legal activities on their own time.
Truly a conservative company. NOT
I will repeat myself here ——
Thank you for supporting a company that does not believe in private property rights and fires employees who engage in legal activities on their own time.
Truly a conservative company. NOT
This is a company that does not believe in private property rights and believes they can control what their employees do on their own time.
Do you consider a company that fires employees for engaging in legal activities off company times to be a "conservative" company??????
Absolutely NOT.
This company has pumped all kinds of money into smoking bans and fired employees who refused to quit smoking. They only hire non-smokers.
I do not and will not purchase their products
I'm a conservative and do believe anyone or any company can hire or fire anyone for any reason - but I don't have to agree with them. It is also not a conservative principle to force others to go along with you.
That anyone on Free Republic would agree with this is beyond me.
This company fires employees for engaging in legal activities on their own time. Do you actually agree with that?
Really? I don't care who pitched their products- they fired employees who engaged in the use of legal products while not on company time if those employees refused to stop.
The company has the right to hire who ever they wish, I have no problem with that. I also have no problem with a company that only hires people who do as the company wishes 24/7 - I just won't do business with them.
I have absolutely no clue why so many so-called conservatives would be so thrilled about the endorsement of Romney by Scott’s.
Scott’s is a company that hires and fires based upon legal activities employees do on personal time.
As I am typing this, I am smoking a cigarette - Scott/Miracle-Gro will NOT consider me as a possible employee for that reason and that reason only.
I fully support them in that decision - my reason for not supporting them is because they have pumped so much money into supporting legislation that would also keep me from opening another business that caters to people who do smoke cigarettes.
I don’t have to work for them or buy their products (I haven’t in many years) but I draw the line when they tell me how to run my business and that is EXACTLY what they are doing when they support bans on smoking in private businesses.
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