Landsend.com's SURPRISE SANTA ("bye-bye", NOT "buy, buy" Lands' End).

Lands' End website ^

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I just checked out LL Bean's website and I found no objectionable info...except that they do go through United Way for some of their charitable giving.

LL Bean's Heritage:
Please note that L.L.Bean is a privately held, family-owned company. We release limited financial and operational information and do not produce an annual report.

LLBean as Employer, sounds good.
Charitable Giving Guidelines.
LL Bean's contact page

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Do a Google search on "LL Bean, abortion."

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Linda Bean and Don Folkers

As listed by GOPAC: Gave GOPAC (through mid-1993) $10,000

MoJo Notes:

Conservative

Bean is an outspoken opponent of abortion rights, gay rights, and gun control. She is the granddaughter of Leon Leonwood Bean, who started the L. L. Bean mail-order house in Freeport, Maine. She lost a 1992 bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine), although she spent $1 million of her personal fortune trying (Chicago Tribune, 11/5/92). She serves on the board of L. L. Bean, which now grosses more than $600 million a year. Folkers is Bean's husband.

Link, thanks to Mother Jones. (^:

[Diddle E. Squat]

[angry elephant]

I got an email from Land's End saying they were sorry that I was offended by their choice of Santa Claus and they were removing me from their mailing list. Of course, I am also offended by Rob Reiner's recent attacks on Washington Mutual, in which I own stock. If he is going to attack my stock values, I will attack Land's End's stock values. Besides the issue of Communism versus Christianity, there is also just plain capitalism involved here for me.

[evolved_rage]

A rat friend, who preferred Land's End because they were pro-abortion, hated the political stance of LL Bean. I'll research further.

[rabidralph]

Here is a copy of my message to Lands End:

I'm sorry, I didn't quite get your response to Lands End, could you post it again, please?

[evolved_rage]

Thanks.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

My email to Lands' End:

Rob Reiner as Santa Claus? Please. The man's an ardent, fist-in-the-air socialist and a reliable opponent of every foundational American value. He is an advocate of limitless government meddling and pickpocket confiscation, an enemy of individualism, and a committed collectivist and race-baiter. He runs with a ranting far-left Limousine Liberal crowd that includes Alec Baldwin and Spike Lee who have explicitly advocated obstructionism and violence against their opponents. He'd be much better suited for Robin Hood tights than a Santa Claus outfit.

I've been a Lands End customer for two decades. No more. There are few choices you could have made that could have been more offensive to the spirit of Christmas.

[vikingchick]

ping

[SheLion]

Robber Reiner came out of his box to play Santa. How cute.

Talk about Big FAT!

[SheLion]

Thanks for the ping! This guy is unbelievable. Can't stand this Big FAT man!

[RWG]

Sent email about no more business from me. Found 800 number will try tomorrow 1-800-332-0103.

[Servant of the Nine]

Sears Roebuck used to be one of the great american companies, but everything thay have touched for the last 30 years has turnerd to cr@p.

They bought Lands End, "The Sears of the 21st Century", the hottest marketer around and have instantly screwed it up.

Boycott Sears as Well, they are the owners.

So9

[RAT Patrol]

L.L. Bean just earned my business too.

[maxwellp]

I just e-mailed Lands' End and told them that Rob Reiner as Santa was very offensive as he is a Socialist and completely anti-American. Also said I just tossed their December 2002 catalog in the garbage.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Sears? Oh, no...that was another Christmas staple at our house....tools and multi-packs of men's white socks.

Freeper Christmas business-shopping tips are appreciated.

Here's a really bad Christmas campaign for Freeping and public exposure: Planned Parenthood Christmas Cards, available at the PP website, are celebrating the birth of the Son of God with the slogan "Choice on Earth" (FR link).

[backhoe]

Here's some "opposition research" on Rob Reiner--

That's Entertainment: A Look at Celebrity Donors to the ...
... 000 Sumner Redstone, Viacom International, $2,000 Michele Singer Reiner, Actress,
$2,000 Rob Reiner, Director, $2,000 Daniella Rich, Actress, $1,000 Denise Rich ...

ACLU: God Bless America Sign 'Hurtful... Divisive' [Free ...
... To: truther. Former presidents of the ACLU are Phil Donahue and Rob Reiner, what
does that tell you? They need to be Freeped big time. They are terrorists of ...

All in the Family's cast of Liberals [Free Republic]
... Rob Reiner became a director of many movies, but was referred to in the news as
"Rob Weiner." Rob's political comments angered many Hispanics in late 1999. ...

National Organizations With Anti-Gun Policies [Free Republic]
... Retton - Former Olympian; Paul Reiser - Actor; Peter Reckell - Actor; Rob Reiner
- Actor/Director; Robert Redford - Actor/Director; Anne Rice - Writer; Cathy Rigby ...

SEE WHAT THE DEMO-NAZIS HAVE IN STORE FOR AMERICA [Free ...
... mix of Washington and Hollywood took over for the rest of the day. Film maker Rob
Reiner, who led the successful California ballot fight in 1998 for a hike in ...

Topic: White Water
... Harry Met Sally? Rob Reiner, the director, inserted throughout the movie interviews
with old couples who told sweet stories from their courtship. "The first ...

No Hooray for This Hollywood [Free Republic]
... speak out against half the country. I hope they all starve someday. And what Rob
Reiner did out here in California by raising the price of cigarettes by 50 ...

[angry elephant]

Maybe we can all boycott them. I don't know who they think buys their clothes if not for the working middle class. Reiner's rich Socialist friends probably all buy designer clothes from boutiques.

[angry elephant]

Boycott Sears as Well, they are the owners.

Thanks for the info. No more Sears for me either. Does someone have their email link they can post so we can all email them?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

sears@sracweb.com