JetBlue on the Buy Blue list

[carrowsboy]

If I recall correctly, JetBlue was the FIRST airline to voluntarily hand over passanger information to the Dept. of Homeland Security.

Why should we support a business that is so quick to invade our privacy rights?

[cantstandbush]

1. And they feature DirecTV, a Rupert Murdoch company. n/t

[HuskerDU]

2. The BuyBlue stuff confuses me too.

For instance, Kohls is listed as being 100% red, yet I thought it was owned by Sen. Kohl D-WI. Also Geico is 100% red, yet I thought Warren Buffett, a known Dem, owned that company.

[Bushfire]

3. Cheesehead dropping in regarding Kohl's

Senator Kohl has never had anything to do with the department store Kohl's. He used to own a grocery chain in SE WI called Kohl's, but sold it around the time he first ran for Senate.

Geico to my knowledge is owned to a big degree by Buffett's investment company Berkshire Hathaway giving him a big stake in the insurance company. I never knew him as a Dem though. I'd like to read about that connection.

[Viktor Runeberg]

4. Buffett

Don't know his party affiliation, but his views on what's wrong with how business is done in America are very close to the Democratic concensus (that is, of the part of the Democratic population that neither is just fine with the status quo nor wishing for state socialism).

[HuskerDU]

5. Thanks for the info!

I am not very internet savvy, but a little snooping prolly could yield Mr. Buffett's political leanings. That he is a centerist with dem leaning is just what I have heard over the years.

[1932]

7. I think it's based entirely on PAC and employee political contributions.

If a company is based in a state which has two Republican senators and is dominated otherwise by republicans, no matter how "blue" the companies business plan is or how blue its founders are, it will end up red just based on the inevitable fact that they donate to incumbents.

I happen to think that ANY donation to a politician raises problems. I also think that any company that pays its employees well and helps cutomers save and spend money wisely is good for democracy no matter whether or to whom it gives political donations.

[1932]

6. Axciom sold that info to the military contractor, and Axciom has one

Democratic 2004 presidential candidate on its board, so it's OK.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Acxiom