Is this something I am supposed to care about?

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1373764&mesg_id=1373764

I was going to buy some paint tomorrow yet I see there is a Home Depot boycott. The OP doesn't explain why. What am I missing here?

[markk]

1. people going crazy over the michael vick thing

seeing as owner of home depot owns the falcons.. and hasn't made a statement yet.. even though Vick hasn't been convicted of anything.

[EFerrari]

3. Welcome to DU, markk, and don't mind the people going crazy.

lol

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Oh I think I get it then

Vick plays for the Falcons and the owner also owns Home Depot?

[Adsos Letter]

2. If you decide you need to boycott Home Depot, then...

go to Benjamin Moore, Sherwin/Williams, or Kelly-Moore...they are better paints than Behr, in my 30+ years of experience...

:D

[razors edge]

5. Yes,

Behr sucks in my opinion, unless you like watered down paint and third coating.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Thanks !!

[BlackVelvet04]

4. It's just those who want to

be the judge and jury on the Michael Vick case.

[HuskiesHowls]

6. I'm not sure if its all the Michael Vick case:

DECEMBER 4, 2003

Bush Rewards Generous GOP Donor with Visit to Maryland Store on Friday; Energy Bill Includes $48 Million Tax Break for the Giant Retailer

<snip>
Research by Public Citizen suggests the president’s visit is yet another way to reward the nation’s second-largest retailer for its generosity to the Bush campaign and the Republican Party. Home Depot employees and their families have given $1.5 million to the GOP since 1999, according to data provided to Public Citizen by the Center for Responsive Politics.

During that time, no candidate has benefited from Home Depot’s largesse more than Bush. The total includes $907,950 in mostly "soft money" donations to the Republican National Committee before such giving was outlawed by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA). So far this year, Home Depot employees and the company political action committee have contributed $31,000 to the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign.
<snip>
http://www.commondreams.org/scriptfiles/news2003/1204-05.htm

This is the reason that I don't go to Home Depot...even though the parking lot is empty during business hours!!

edited to add headline

[rpannier]

9. Stop That!!!

You're ruining it for those who want to spin the boycott as something simplistic.

Don't you klnow bringing facts into these things only confuses the situation.

[BlackVelvet04]

10. The person who called for the boycott gave Vick

as his reason.

[markk]

11. with all the nader hating here I thought

the stop that was going to be about citing public citizen as a source.