Anybody seen a link on here for Blue Businesses?

[NVMojo]

I want to be very discriminate about where I spend my disposable income from now on, and it won't be in Nevada unless it is a Blue Business. Maybe we should start a website? Anybody?

[Stephanie]

1. There is a huge project going on right now around that

I think the thread is called Starve the Beast.

[VivaKerry]

2. I got this today via email

Here's what I have (and B&N is where I bought the new Jon Stewart
book):
Big Dem donors (80% or more to Dems):
Hard Rock Cafe
Costco
Bashas
Brown & Cole Food Stores
Hyatt Corporation (hotels)
Random House (book publisher)
Chronicle Books
E&J Gallo Winery
Barnes & Noble
Bed, Bath, & Beyond

Oil companies - where to fill up? These are the only two. The best of a
bad lot. Boycott ALL the others:
Shell Oil, 57% to Dems, 43% to pukes
Citgo, donations not large enough to appear on the Open Secrets top 20
for its industry, owned by Venezuela's state owned oil company

If you smoke:
R.J. Reynolds, 91% to pukes. R.J. Reynolds is also on the AFL-CIO
boycott list and has been since the
1950s. If you smoke, don't smoke any RJR brands, and let them know why.

vs the others:
Altria Group 60% to pukes
Lorrilard 65% to pukes
Swisher, 37% to pukes
Liggett Vector Group, 91% to Dems, 9% to pukes (generic cigs, in case
you're wondering)


Financial services:

Good:
1 Goldman Sachs $4,894,151 56% 43%
11 Lehman Brothers $1,653,943 63% 37%

so-so

2 National Assn of Realtors $3,186,139 48% 52%
4 JP Morgan Chase & Co $2,637,868 51% 49%
5 Citigroup Inc $2,354,938 52% 48%
7 Bank of America $2,054,236 49% 51%
13 Credit Suisse First Boston $1,604,619 47% 53%
18 Bear Stearns $1,252,698 48% 51%

Bad:

3 Morgan Stanley $2,652,875 40% 60%
6 UBS Americas $2,070,718 40% 58%
8 Credit Union National Assn $1,994,097 42% 58%
9 Deloitte & Touche $1,870,019 28% 72%
10 Merrill Lynch $1,858,031 28% 72%
12 American Bankers Assn $1,630,313 37% 63%
14 PriceWaterhouseCoopers $1,578,205 21% 79%
15 Ernst & Young $1,457,114 33% 66%
16 MBNA Corp $1,413,247 27% 73%
17 AFLAC Inc $1,300,315 37% 63%
19 Wachovia Corp $1,230,976 29% 71%
20 KPMG LLP $1,189,064 29% 71%

Good:

Microsoft Corp
$2,593,532
61% Dem
39% Rep

eBay Inc
$253,780
56% Dem
44% Rep

Hewlett-Packard
$297,991
61% Dem
38% Rep

Costco Companies
$200,303
98% Dem
2% Rep


Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli helped bring in more than $3 million for
Mr. Bush at a fund-raiser in Atlanta.

GOP friendly credit cards: Citibank, Bank One, and MBNA. Citibank is
supposed to have a lot of Saudi money infused in it, too.

Mutual of America is NOW's sole corporate sponsor.


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[GreenPartyVoter]

5. See the shopping directories on my site. :^)

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[VivaKerry]

6. Thanks! will do.

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[jefferson_dem]

3. "starve the beast" thread link here -

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2600099

[bettyellen]

4. here are three good threads, look in + kick 'em good!

Subject: threads on wher to shop/ not shop
Message:
starve the beast:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

progressive pages, there's one in every state forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

both dem and repug alternatives + resources.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...


pls vivit all and kick en up there, while you're at it.

pass around the list for xmas!!!