JoB
DP…
i am not boycotting because of the candidate Target chose to support… although that is what brought their donation to national attention.
I am boycotting because i don’t believe that corporations ought to have an unfair advantage over citizens in buying political ads for candidates.
Don’t get me wrong.. i personally think this candidate is repulsive…
but i would still be boycotting regardless of whether i approved of the candidate or not if i had been made aware that Target had chosen to take advantage of this supreme court ruling
because i believe the ruling is wrong.
Our elected representatives spend far too much of their time fund raising for their next election and catering to the special interests of their largest donors…
govt of the people..
for the people..
by the people..
i think i messed up the sequence and am too tired today to go look it up..
but the point is that corporations are not people… whether the supreme court grants them that status or not.
the only reason we know about the donation from target to a special interest group supporting Emmett is that Minnesota has strong political disclosure laws… but not every state does.
right now the republicans have effectively blocked a national political contribution disclosure law in the Senate.
In most states, corporations will not have to disclose their contributions and consumers won’t have the opportunity to vote against those contributions by boycotting.
Target is a good place to make a stand because the boycott is hurting their stock price and the issue in this case is clear.
it’s a start.