[Shadow_Group] Mark Morford: Amazon.com Is For Republicans

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===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== 
SFGate.com - December 22, 2004 

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Amazon.com Loves Republicans?
Attention liberal shoppers: Next year, screw those GOP-loving companies, and start buying blue
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist 
Do you care much that greasy ol' Pizza Hut gave tens of thousands in PAC money to the GOP last year? How about the fact that Taco Bell stopped pumping out its happily toxic semirancid meat-like substances just long enough to write a fat check to the conservative Right? Isn't that weirdly fascinating, in a depressing and indigestible sort of way? 
Does it matter a whit that, say, Fruit of the Loom underwear gave nearly 100 percent of its corporate donations to tiny- whitey-wearing Republicans, nearly every one of whom I'm guessing wouldn't know appetizing undergarments from a flap of burlap and some string? 
Do you think maybe it should? Matter, that is? 
This is what happened: there was this list, see, a long and rather surprising list of major consumer companies in America, and it detailed just how much money each company forked over to the respective political parties last year in political action committee (PAC) donations. 
Stop yawning. It gets better. 
And the list was a bit revelatory and interesting, as such lists are often wont to be, and the companies' fiscal behavior might even surprise you a little, might even take you aback and make you reconsider your consumerist options, especially the part about how Amazon.com gave 61 percent of its donations to the GOP and except maybe for the part about how Coors Brewing gave almost every penny of its donations to Republicans in a concerted effort to, presumably, stop them icky Colorado gays from getting married and keep women in their place all while furthering the cause of skanky undrinkable pisswater beer made for red-blooded Americans who lack taste buds and hope .... 
(click here to read the rest) 
(Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/12/22/notes122204.DTL&nl=fix ) 

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