Target Discovers Downside To Political Contributions Updated: Saturday, 07 Aug 2010, 11:53 AM EDT Published : Saturday, 07 Aug 2010, 11:53 AM EDT
(NewsCore) - Target Corp. sought to take advantage of new campaign finance rules, but ended up putting a bull's eye on its back, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
The Minneapolis retailer recently donated $150,000 to a political group, Minnesota Forward, that backs pro-business candidates in statewide races, including a candidate for governor who opposes same-sex marriage. On Friday, hundreds of gay rights supporters demonstrated outside Target stores in locations nationwide, and a petition promising a boycott, signed by more than 240,000, was delivered to Target.
The Target flap shows the potential downside for companies that want to get more involved in politics since a January Supreme Court ruling on campaign contributions. Brand-oriented companies, in particular, worry about getting embroiled in controversies that can tarnish their reputation. It is a rare political black eye for the trendy discounter, which has a track record of supporting gay causes, including extending partner health benefits to its employees.
The campaign against Target was orchestrated by liberal-advocacy group MoveOn.org. It included a note on the retailer's Facebook page that said, "Boycott Target Until They Cease Funding Anti-Gay Politics."...................>>>>.............................>>>>...................http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/ne.....-km-20100807_9064825
I'd rather shop at Brooks Brothers, Nordstrom's and Neiman-Marcus anyday.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Hard to buy potato chips and Clorox in any of those joints.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
This is just another example of trying to silence FREE SPEECH! Only those who will contribute to the liberal socialists will not by boycotted.
Is this what this country has come too??
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Guess everyone who supports FREE SPEECH & CHOICE should be shopping Target. We prefer target over walmart/kmart anyway.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Hard to buy potato chips and Clorox in any of those joints.
I don't eat potato chips .. and you can get Clorox at Price Chopper, Hannaford, the Niskayuna CO-OP, Gabriel's, or Gruelich's.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
GET THE HELL OVER IT!!!!......I'll shop at Target AND I'll kiss my partner on the lips while walking through the protestors and the doors of Target.....
GROW SOME BALLS/HAIR/SKIN OR WHATEVER.......GET OVER IT!!!!
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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