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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 03:54 AM
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3. The answer should be obvious...
are you running a business or a movement?

Over the years, working for myself or others, I did occasionally make choices based on some sort of politics or social action, but it was absolutely taboo to mix partisan politics with business. Nothing good ever comes of it.

Instead of things like Kucinich banners, guaranteed to piss of a lot of your customers for a lot of reasons, why not find some neutral causes to push-- the Sierra Club, League of Women Voters, Lutheran World Relief, the Hunger Site, animal shelters... anything that might lean toward progessive but not a red cape in front of the bull.

There are hundreds of causes and organizations out there that can be supported and show people how you feel without alienating potential customers.

(Just stay away from Handgun Control, PETA, the ACLU and a few others that will piss people off as much a Kucinich ad.)



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