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12-28-2004, 12:28 PM
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The 250,00 Donor List to the 40 Million+ Bush Gala
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tionspouringin
I'll never buy a Dell again.
Inauguration's $250,000 donors
COMPANIES
Altria Corporate Services Inc.
(New York)
Parent company of Kraft and Philip Morris
Ameriquest Capital Corp.
(Orange, Calif.)
Financial services company
Argent Mortgage Company
(Orange, Calif.)
ChevronTexaco Corp.
(Concord, Calif.)
Corporate Capital LLC
(New Orleans)
Investment firm
Exxon Mobil Corp.
(Washington)
Golden Eagle Industries Inc.
(Charlotte)
Buiding materials company
Kojaian Ventures LLC
(Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Long Beach Acceptance Corp.
(Paramus, N.J.)
Auto loan company
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
(Los Angeles)
Rooney Holdings Inc.
(Tulsa)
Construction company
Sallie Mae Inc. (Reston, Va.)
Student loan organization
Southern Company Inc.
(Atlanta)
Energy utility
Stephens Group Inc.
(Little Rock, Ark.)
Investment firm
Town and Country Credit
(Irvine, Calif.)
Mortgage company
United Technologies Corp.
(Hartford, Conn.)
Aerospace and industrial manufacture
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INDIVIDUALS
Elliott Broidy
(Los Angeles)
Founder of investment firm Broidy Capital Management
Michael Dell
(Austin, Texas)
Founder of the Dell computer company
Richard Kinder
(Houston)
Former Enron president
S. Davis Phillips
(High Point, N.C.)
Former North Carolina commerce secretary
T. Boone Pickens
(Dallas)
Texas oilman
Sources: Presidential Inaugural Committee, company Web sites, news reports
Note: List current as of Dec. 23.
Last edited by Secretariat; 12-28-2004 at 12:29 PM.
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12-28-2004, 01:16 PM
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gaining some smarts through the process of osmosis...
See, that, Sec: The results of this election will actually benefit you - maybe! You will have gained some enlightentmet about something of whicht most smart or informed people have figured out long before now, i.e. it just doesn't make very good sense to buy 'puter from companies that contain nothing but proprietary parts/hardware -- for reasons that are hopefully obvious to you. (The operative word here being "hopefully".)
And now you have Bush and Dell to thank for, hopefully, waking you out of your slumber.
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12-28-2004, 03:27 PM
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Enlighten us, Sec.
Do you just boycott companies that support Bush, or do you include those that outsource job, those that support child slave labor overseas, or others that do inherently bad things?
Or are you just myoptic?
BTW, thanks for the list of companies I will certainly try to support in the coming year 
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12-28-2004, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Secretariat
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...tionspouringin
I'll never buy a Dell again.
Inauguration's $250,000 donors
COMPANIES
Altria Corporate Services Inc.
(New York)
Parent company of Kraft and Philip Morris
Ameriquest Capital Corp.
(Orange, Calif.)
Financial services company
Argent Mortgage Company
(Orange, Calif.)
ChevronTexaco Corp.
(Concord, Calif.)
Corporate Capital LLC
(New Orleans)
Investment firm
Exxon Mobil Corp.
(Washington)
Golden Eagle Industries Inc.
(Charlotte)
Buiding materials company
Kojaian Ventures LLC
(Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
Long Beach Acceptance Corp.
(Paramus, N.J.)
Auto loan company
Occidental Petroleum Corp.
(Los Angeles)
Rooney Holdings Inc.
(Tulsa)
Construction company
Sallie Mae Inc. (Reston, Va.)
Student loan organization
Southern Company Inc.
(Atlanta)
Energy utility
Stephens Group Inc.
(Little Rock, Ark.)
Investment firm
Town and Country Credit
(Irvine, Calif.)
Mortgage company
United Technologies Corp.
(Hartford, Conn.)
Aerospace and industrial manufacture
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INDIVIDUALS
Elliott Broidy
(Los Angeles)
Founder of investment firm Broidy Capital Management
Michael Dell
(Austin, Texas)
Founder of the Dell computer company
Richard Kinder
(Houston)
Former Enron president
S. Davis Phillips
(High Point, N.C.)
Former North Carolina commerce secretary
T. Boone Pickens
(Dallas)
Texas oilman
Sources: Presidential Inaugural Committee, company Web sites, news reports
Note: List current as of Dec. 23.
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You're never going to watch any Warner Brothers movies again either, are you?
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12-28-2004, 04:45 PM
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businesses contribute to both sides nevering knowing which way the political wind might blow
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12-28-2004, 05:19 PM
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You're never going to watch any Warner Brothers movies again either, are you?
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But I bet he will still agree with his other cohort here - Daffy Duck!
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12-28-2004, 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom
Enlighten us, Sec.
Do you just boycott companies that support Bush, or do you include those that outsource job, those that support child slave labor overseas, or others that do inherently bad things?
Or are you just myoptic?
BTW, thanks for the list of companies I will certainly try to support in the coming year |
Tom -- nope, just the ones that supported Bush. Although I do boycott Walmart, Exxon, Chevron, Chili's, Applebees, and Best Buy and now I've added Dell. America is great. One can choose to spend where one wants to.
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12-28-2004, 11:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Secretariat
Tom -- nope, just the ones that supported Bush. Although I do boycott Walmart, Exxon, Chevron, Chili's, Applebees, and Best Buy and now I've added Dell. America is great. One can choose to spend where one wants to.
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Judging by the current economy, we don't really need your cash. Send it to moveon.orgie.
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12-29-2004, 12:04 PM
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sec, what's your point? Don't you think a like amt of companies contributed to the Clinton gala or would have contributed to the Kerry gala? Is this just more vitriol? Looks like...
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12-29-2004, 12:55 PM
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Sec, thats absolutely your right and I see nothing wrong with what you are choosing to do even though I sit on the complete other side of the fence. I have made similar choices myself - I have a list of actors whose movies I won't see, and there are bands whose music I will not listen too. Its a shame because some of them are very good artists, but it is a decision that I made. Just curious though, do you support my right to decide to never listen to the Dixie Chicks again and to call my local stations and let them know that I will not listen to their station if they play the Dixie Chicks?
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12-29-2004, 01:54 PM
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46Zilzal:
"businesses contribute to both sides nevering knowing which way the political wind might blow"
You are correct.....it may have even been on this board, someone posted an article about how all these big corporations donate to both political parties.
I'm sure Michael Dell was one of the listed.
Anyone who thinks that big corps don't support both parties is naive.
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12-29-2004, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by lsbets
Sec, thats absolutely your right and I see nothing wrong with what you are choosing to do even though I sit on the complete other side of the fence. I have made similar choices myself - I have a list of actors whose movies I won't see, and there are bands whose music I will not listen too. Its a shame because some of them are very good artists, but it is a decision that I made. Just curious though, do you support my right to decide to never listen to the Dixie Chicks again and to call my local stations and let them know that I will not listen to their station if they play the Dixie Chicks?
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Absolutely, why wouldn't I?
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12-29-2004, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Secretariat
Absolutely, why wouldn't I?
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So Sec, you will disassociate yourself with anyone supportive of Bush?
So if you felt the opposite way, and you were a huge Springsteen or Dave Matthews fan, you would never listen to their music again?
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12-29-2004, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by so.cal.fan
46Zilzal:
"businesses contribute to both sides nevering knowing which way the political wind might blow"
You are correct.....it may have even been on this board, someone posted an article about how all these big corporations donate to both political parties.
I'm sure Michael Dell was one of the listed.
Anyone who thinks that big corps don't support both parties is naive.
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Isn't this whole thing just plain old bribery? 
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12-29-2004, 07:44 PM
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No, Tom, it's just politics! 
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