Business to get out GOP vote

Make note of the corporations listed, so you'll know what products to boycott.

http://thehill.com/news/080603/business.aspx

Approximately 170 corporations, including some 60 Fortune 500 companies, are participating in an ambitious plan to mobilize employees in the presidential and congressional elections 15 months away.

The effort, developing since the 1998 election cycle, is intended to counteract the powerful grassroots organization of labor and other liberal interests that often clash with business on policy.

While the effort, dubbed the Prosperity Project, is nominally bipartisan, it is certain to favor Republican candidates, who are generally viewed as friendlier to business than Democrats.

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Participants, including companies such as ExxonMobil, Procter & Gamble and International Paper, and trade associations such as The Business Roundtable and The Financial Services Roundtable, have already contacted 1.5 million employees, said Greg Casey, BIPAC president.

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... with each pink slip.

I am almost finished reading"BIG LIES" by Joe Conason and he states (and lo and behold backs it up with actual facts) that Repubes are worse for business (in terms of stock valuation) than the Dems.

He cites three different studies and all of them found a 4-5 point advantage for the Dems including a Northwesten Mutual study that just happened to exclude the Hovver and Second Nixon term. The studies were basically for the last entire CENTURY!

Corporate and right-wing special interests got out the GOP voters in Georgia in a big way. I hope that $75 million Liberal fund concentrates on getting out the Dem vote in a bigger way.

for the lower workers but they allow the people at the top to loot.

.. that Soros is putting together will concentrate on 17 crucial electoral states. They'll all be states that Gore barely won or barely lose. I don't have the list of them, but I saw it and was VERY pleased.

Keep in mind also that the GOP already turns-out the vote. We have more to gain with GOTV than they can ever dream of.

Just because employees don't belong to a union, doesn't mean that they will vote GOP. I'm a feminist and a Democrat, so I'm inclined to tell the GOP to go you-know-where.

And I don't agree with some of my companies policies, such as favoring privatizing Social Security. Some of my fellow employees do, but that's because many of the ones that do don't realize that Social Security is more than a retirement package. When I tell them that SS covers widows/widowers and their kids along with the disabled, they are stunned and it starts changing their support for wanting to invest their 2% of SS in the stock market.

This story was originally posted in the LBN Forum on Wednesday, August 6. Here is the link to that discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=54309&mesg_id=54309

Since this story no longer qualifies as LBN, it would be best if we didn't kick the previous thread for discussion. Please feel free to start a new discussion in the General Discussion forum.

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