Contrary to "Urban Outfitters" progressive image, its boss is a right-wing Santorum donor

El Pinko

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Wed May-21-08 10:45 AM
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Contrary to "Urban Outfitters" progressive image, its boss is a right-wing Santorum donor

Edited on Wed May-21-08 10:46 AM by El Pinko

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/columnists/article.html?in_article_id=441974&in_page_id=19&in_author_id=2266&position=moretopstories

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Urban Outfitters is a triumph of marketing - a hugely successful business that has disguised the gap between what it is and what its customers suppose it to be.

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It seems unlikely that many of the staff or the customers know much about the owner and boss of Urban - a brilliant retailer called Richard Hayne whose views would be a serious risk to sales were his profile to rise.

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Shopping in Urban makes you feel like you are somewhere radically Left-wing, an antidote to the corporate blandness of The Gap. But Hayne is a stanch conservative who donates money to Republican politicians, not least Rick Santorum, a now failed Senator whose views on homosexuality are both bizarre and old-fashioned.

Hayne doesn't give many interviews precisely because he's afraid that college slackers who get to know him will suddenly realise that buying his clothes is like giving cash to George Bush. Once described as projecting a "Dick Cheney-esque aura of no-nonsense grayflannel gravitas", Hayne must be the only retailer whose expansion plans depend on no one finding out who he really is.

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dbonds

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Wed May-21-08 10:48 AM
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1. So he takes money from liberals to give to conservatives.

Never shopped at or seen one of his stores, but I sure won't go there now.

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AlCzervik

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Wed May-21-08 10:50 AM
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3. you are missing nothing, their clothes are your typical won't make it thorugh the wash

once cheapo imports.

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Turbineguy

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Wed May-21-08 10:49 AM
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2. He must have gotten the idea

from Felix Dzerzhinsky. He had the West finance his intelligence operations for years.

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Wed May-21-08 11:03 AM
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4. Thanks for the information!

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