Replies

Perhaps the root of this story is in the fact that Target is a part of Dayton-Hudson-Marshall Field stores. Dayton's, of course, is where Senator Mark Dayton, D-Minnesota, got the $12 million to buy - I mean fund his run for - the senate seat he now occupies. Big time liberal.

It's a little more complicated than that. The company was founded by prior generations of Daytons, but they no longer own or run it (and haven't for quite some time). They're minority share holders now.

Also, the Target corporation is now the name of the parent company. It was officially changed from "Dayton-Hudson" to Target around five years ago, to better reflect the core business. Within the past couple of years, the department store names "Dayton's" and "Hudson's" were retired, and all the department stores are now named "Marshall Field's."

Mark Dayton never had anything to do with the running of the company in any case. He just inherited the fortune previously created by his family.

You're right on all counts, but I needed to spell it out the way I did to 'connect the dots', so to speak.

Senator Dayton, as you pointed out, does not run the company. He has merely lived off of the Dayton name, leading a liesurely liberal life of the idyll rich in 'public service'. Never lead a real life, never held a real job, never worried abouy a thing in his life, yet indentifies with the little people like myself, who do these things everyday.

Oh, he did a brief stint as a 'teacher', notice that he didn't continue with that profession, it merely calls into question his dedication.

Oh yeah, he does worry about taxes. The family trust is headquartered in South Dakota, to avoid paying Minnesota (where he purports to live) taxes. Of course that's not HIS fault.

Married into the Rockefeller family, brother in law to Senator Rockefeller, D- West Virginia. Another liberal rich guy!

When running for office, he promised to return his salary to the public - broke his word on that one, didn't he?

Now, maybe I'm wrong, but my my basic point is that he's a liberal rich guy who knows much better than I how to spend my money.