Question for business savvy DUers. Why can't we just BUY Diebold?

[mistertrickster]

That is buy the stock. Get a majority stake in the company and fire every goddam Republican, starting with Wally O'Dell?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Market cap is $ 3.76B, better save your pennies...

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/profile.asp?siteid=bigcharts&dist=bigcharts&symb=DBD&sid=1604&time=8

[mistertrickster]

2. So how much of that would a bloc have to have to be able to control

the board (i.e., hires and fires), do you think?

[BlueEyedSon]

51%

[mistertrickster]

8. Hmmm, so that's 1.9 million people in for 1000 bucks apiece.

I'd do it, but it'd be a helluva PR job to get some 2 million other people to come along for the ride.

It'd probably be easier to mobilize among THE EXISTING shareholders . . . I hadn't thought of that until just now.

[The Flaming Red Head]

3. Because Diebold now owns U$

[Ima]

4. iI'd guess

they would start another company and go into compition with us.

[LiberalEsto]

5. If a lot of us buy single shares of stock

we can show up en masse at the next stockholder meeting and raise hell.
This is a tactic some activist friends of mine used while fighting Johnson & Johnson's effort to "redevelop" New Brunswick, NJ back in the 70s. They bought shares of J&J and went to the meeting, and the J&J execs were extremely pissed. Bwa ha ha.

[mistertrickster]

7. I love it--use capitalism against itself.

[Stew225]

6. Well, the Kerry campaign is reported to have

45 mil left over.