Mac points us to a site that lists corporate political donations. Choose the Blue lets you better decide which companies will get your business.
Let’s see how the companies that I use end up sending my money:
Companies that support Red candidates over Blue
- Cingular Wireless
- State Farm Insurance
- BP (Amoco)
- Bravo (Strange — aren’t they the defacto gay channel now?)
- Wal-Mart
- Target
- S C Johnson and Sons
- Procter & Gamble
- 3M
- PepsiCo
- Coca Cola
- Hormel Foods (And here I had them in the good category because of their openly gay heir. Turns out Hormel gave 100% to reds)
- General Mills
- General Electric
- Circuit City
- Home Depot
- J C Penney
- Sears
- Staples
- Navy Federal Credit Union (Well, I’ve had my account there for 38 years and I’m not about to try to memorize another PIN number now.)
- American Express
- McDonald’s
- Wendy’s
- Outback Steak House
- Pizza Hut
- Dominion Virginia Power
- Southwest Airlines
- UPS
- FedEx
Companies that support Blue over Red
- Dish Network
- Toyota
- Shell Oil
- Sony
- 20th Century Fox (how odd! A Fox company!)
- DirecTV (Again, a Fox company.)
- Fox News (Huh?)
- All the Fox networks (This is truly bizarre. I guess they don’t need to donate more to Republicans, they’re spreading their propaganda for free.)
- Martha Stewart Living (gave ZERO to Republicans, and look what happened to her)
- The Golden Girls (Witt Thomas Productions, another 100% blue contributor… surprised?)
- Costco
- Guiness
- Sara Lee (Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee!)
- Bed Bath and Beyond
- Gap
- Barnes & Noble
- Hyatt Hotels
I think it’s time to rethink my consumer decisions.
This whole ‘red’ and ‘blue’ thing… is is just me or is it going to get old real fast.
No more so than, say, the color-coded terror alert; “compassionate conservative”; the term “activist judges”; or any of those other terms coined by neo-cons, who love to manipulate language and hammer slogans into your brain.
It’s telling that so many people are latching on to “red and blue” as a way to align themselves in an incredibly divided country. Sounds like “gray and blue,” doesn’t it?