Sixteen company PACs gave 90% or more to Republicans. They include the federal PACs of Phillips Int’l. (100%), Cooper Industries (100%), Flowers Industries (100%), Harris Corp. (98%), Illinois Toolworks (97%), Outback Steakhouse (96%), ExxonMobil (96%), National City Corp. (95%), Wendy’s Int’ l. (93%), Anadarko Petroleum (92%), Timken Corp. (91%), Halliburton (91%), Meadwestvaco Corp (90%), Darden Restaurants Inc. (90%), Branch Banking & Trust Co (90%), and Int’l Paper (90%).

The trick now would be to determine what each of these produce that could then be boycotted, or at least held up for public scorn.

We could continue to widen the list, these are just some of the most egregious, not necessarily the easiest to hit by boycott.

they’d come out with a PR asking Democratic Party voters to stop going to Wendy’s if they are going to only contribute to Republicans. Instead, we get the likes that are grateful for the 7% in crumbs, which is good enough to buy off their silence

This is the key… i try to live my life around my politics. Everyone should be a smart consumer. You should know where your money is going, and what it supports. If you find out that you don’t agree with the ethics of a corporation, you should no longer support it.

John Edwards gave Wendy’s a free commercial on the news with his wedding anniversary, and then Wendys goes and gives money to the GOP?

The people on the Right organize big boycotts all the time: Disney, Dixie Chicks, etc… And it always sends a clear message. It’s time that the people on the left do the same thing…

oh wait… the people on the left ALREADY do that… the problem is that the Democrats are no longer on the left… they’re in the middle.

While the post at Alt Hippo was tongue-in-cheek, I’m starting to like the concept. For the same reason that I’ll never buy Coors beer (okay, there’s lots of reasons that’ll never happen) I wouldn’t want my money going to major Republican donors.