Buying Blue Question...

[JBear]

Hey folks,

My favorite breakfast place has gone the way of the economy. Not enough people out there who will support local business over the big chains. So now the question is which of the chains is a bluer company....My choices are Panera Bread or Bruggers Bagels. I am pretty sure that Panera is a national chain. Bruggers may be regional but they are huge around here.

Any thoughts???

:bounce:

[unhappycamper]

1. Bruggers Bagles is pretty big up here in Boston.

I can't help with the blue question. :shrug:

[Wapsie B]

2. I believe Sonic is blue.

And if it's the Brugger's I'm thinking of they're damn good!

[unpossibles]

3. freeps made a list of companies to boycott for supporting Obama

included Starbucks and many other things. You could use that the opposite way. :D

What's funny is, they also talk about boycotting FOX NEWS (!) because they called the election for Obama, and GE, among some other really amusing things. Morans.

Many of them are saying they'll stop buying anything altogether and stop paying taxes, so they can make Obama's administration fail. Gee, great to see who really hates America, right? I wish someone would convince them to boycott Rush Limbaugh, as he helped Obama by suggesting his listeners should vote for him in the primary to keep Clinton out - which is hilarious in its own right.

These people are sick. They talk about removing all of their money from the stock market, and how they'd rather burn it than give it to a poor person. WTF. So, the very objection they claimed to have is kinda moot when it turns out they'd rather destroy the stock market and their own money instead of giving away a small part of it.


(this link only for the strong of stomach)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125410/posts

[Ian David]

7. I looked at the thread, but it's mostly just yelling, and not exactly "information-rich."

I was hoping they'd managed to compile a nice, neat list I could copy-and-paste, but no such luck.

[unpossibles]

8. there's a not-so-neat list on page three if you can make it that far

but most are big corporations more than breakfast places. And most of those corporations give to both sides.

[Ian David]

9. What a crappy site that is! You have to click to go to the next set of pages? WTF!? n/t

[unpossibles]

11. oh yeah - their user interface is horrible

I can't stand it, even beyond the questionable content.

The funny thing is, I have seen them comment that they're confused by our site, which I think is one of the more easily navigated sites I use! I guess when they're used to writing on bathroom walls, anything else is confusing.

[Ian David]

10. It looks like they got THEIR list from US

To: leapfrog0202

That turned out awful - will try to fix:

A list of some is on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125403/posts

And I soiled myself by going to DU for this list: From Follow Your Money:
1. Southern Union Company $1,550 100.00%
2. Safeway Inc. $16,778 97.74%
3. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $11,212 93.44%
4. Burger King Corporation $79,976 92.99%
5. Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation $33,672 92.25% 6. Omega Financial Corporation $8,230 88.97%
7. Renal Care Group, Inc. $40,669 88.41%
8. Symantec Corporation $8,191 86.22%
9. Visa Corporation $20,638 85.99%
10. America Service Group Inc. $13,540 85.70%
11. Hercules Incorporated $80,793 85.30%
12. Harley-Davidson, Inc. $10,331 83.65%
13. DeVry Inc. $22,212 83.27%
14. IPSCO Inc. $20,382 83.19%
15. United States Cellular Corporation $6,927 80.55%
16. CVS Corporation $127,753 80.49%
17. Invacare Corporation $342,220 80.39%
18. Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. $113,111 79.94%
19. Apache Corporation $17,716 79.62%
20. Chiron Corporation $3,971 79.41%

These are the top donors to Dems by amount and percentage. What’s interesting is that some of the companies I’ve seen listed as top GOP donors in other threads actaully gave a higher percentage of contributions to Dems, like Walt Disney, AT&T, Microsoft, Viacom, and Time Warner.
1. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. $4,966,570 49.99%
2. SBC Communications Inc. $3,360,380 43.77%
3. United Parcel Service, Inc. $3,039,189 28.32%
4. BellSouth Corporation $2,907,018 44.08%
5. FedEx Corporation $2,905,991 36.93%
6. Verizon Communications Inc. $2,731,262 32.26%
7. General Electric Company $2,449,019 48.34%
8. AFLAC Incorporated $2,400,270 45.66%
9. AT&T Corporation $2,293,987 51.73%
10. Citigroup, Inc. $2,241,491 48.68%
11. MORGAN STANLEY $2,139,623 48.18%
12. Microsoft Corporation $2,090,974 51.84%
13. Philip Morris Companies Inc. $1,858,586 32.26%
14. General Dynamics Corporation $1,626,439 39.58%
15. Raytheon Company $1,578,276 45.84%
16. Union Pacific Corporation $1,453,478 24.81%
17. Southern Company (The) $1,438,755 41.07%
18. DAIMLERCHRYSLER AG $1,410,154 44.15%
19. American International Group, Inc. $1,382,400 49.63% 20. HSBC Holdings, plc. $1,316,071 44.42%
21. Arthur Andersen Consulting $1,253,879 47.09%
22. AMR Corporation $1,186,835 53.26%
23. MBNA Corporation $1,089,793 29.18%
24. EDISON INTERNATIONAL INC $1,067,229 45.60%
25. Washington Mutual, Inc. $1,031,967 57.54%
26. Viacom Inc. $1,029,055 60.01%
27. Walt Disney Company (The) $981,853 70.72%
28. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. $962,604 56.72%
29. Sprint Corporation $957,051 49.59%
30. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. $953,195 64.72%
31. Pfizer, Inc. $952,404 31.12%
32. Coca-Cola Company (The) $897,769 42.60%
33. Eli Lilly and Company $892,777 33.10%
34. Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. $891,456 50.31%
35. CSX Corporation $855,623 36.21%
36. Time Warner Inc. $830,255 57.65%
37. General Motors Corporation $825,012 33.01%
38. FORD MOTOR CO $824,042 28.83%
39. Northwest Bancorp, Inc. $823,451 48.99%
40. United Technologies Corporation $808,782 46.19%

Info on donors: http://www.opensecrets.org/

And again thanks to DU - list of Rep. donors:
Banks:
Wachovia Corp ($851,000+, 75% to GOP)
Wells Fargo ($950,000+, 62% to GOP)
US Bancorp ($297,000+, 78% to GOP)
Fifth Third Bancorp ($242,000+, 92% to GOP)
National City Corp ($230,000+, 93% to GOP)
BB&T Corp ($229,000+, 79% to GOP)
AmSouth Bancorp ($193,000+, 81% to GOP)
Sun Trust Banks ($182,000+, 81% to GOP)

Tv, Movies, and Music:
Clear Channel Communications ($670,000+, 70% to GOP) Chartwell Partners ($240,000+, 81% to GOP)
Salem Communications ($185,000+, 100% to GOP)
Bresnan Communications ($148,000+, 98% to GOP)
Univision ($207,000+, 71% to GOP)

Agribusiness:
Reynolds American ($821,000+ 91% to GOP)
Pilgrim’s Pride ($300,000+, 97% to GOP)
Dean Foods ($275,000+, 69to GOP)
PepsiCo ($262,000+, 65% to GOP)
Tyson Foods ($228,000+, 65% to GOP)

Computers and Internet:
EDS Corp ($393,000+, 68% to GOP)
Dell Computer ($352,000+, 79% to GOP)
EMC Corp ($289,000+, 86% to GOP)
Collazo Enterprises ($206,000+, 100% 5o GOP)
Unisys Corp ($162,000+, 69% to GOP)

Insurance: AFLAC ($1,300,000+, 63% to GOP)
Independent Insurance Agents of America ($732,000+, 76% to GOP)
Cigna Corp ($640,371, 84% to GOP)
American Financial Group ($624,688, 97% to GOP)
United Services Automobile Assn Group ($480,950, 81% to GOP)
Northwestern Mutual ($457,720, 75% to GOP)
AON Corp ($452,859, 85% to GOP)
St Paul Travelers Companies ($443,028, 72% to GOP)
Zurich Financial Services ($380,263, 85% to GOP)
State Farm Insurance ($349,781, 81% to GOP)

Oil Companies: Shell Oil is the only one that didn’t contribute considerably more to GOP than to Dems. Other than Shell, the oil companies contributed AT LEAST 61%, and several contributed 100%, to the GOP)

Pharmaceuticals: Only Roche (48% to GOP) and AdvancePCS (50% to GOP) were even remotely fair. Everyone else contributed heavily to the GOP.

Telecommunications: Verizon Communications ($1,190,627, 61% to GOP)
Sprint Corp ($489,025, 63% to GOP)
IDT Corp ($226,850, 93% to GOP)
US Telecom Assn ($191,966, 66% to GOP)
TDS Telecommunications ($26,105, 62% to GOP)
Cincinnati Bell ($18,450, 71% to GOP)
Network Telephone Inc ($18,188, 100% to GOP)
Citizens Telephone Co ($15,400, 92% to GOP)
Granite Telecommunications ($15,000, 100% to GOP)

Tobacco: Tobacco is heavily skewed to the GOP. The following companies give less than 50% of their contributions to the GOP. I don’t smoke so I can’t tell you what brands they sell. Vector Group, Liggett Vector Brands, Swisher International, Seneca Hawk Tobacco, and General Cigar.

Health Professionals: Unfortunately every health professional organization gave more to the GOP than to Dems EXCEPT the American Nurses Association. Go out today and HUG A NURSE!

Miscellaneous Business:
Wal-Mart ($1,875,557, 81% to GOP)
National Restaurant Assn ($756,132, 90% to GOP)
General Electric ($745,486, 67% to GOP)
National Fedn of Independent Business ($700,640, 98% To GOP)
Home Depot ($677,370, 94% to GOP)
Accenture ($603,072, 70% to GOP)
Outback Steakhouse ($485,698, 98% to GOP)
National Assn of Convenience Stores ($474,972, 83% to GOP) Clark Consulting ($338,239, 84% to GOP)
3M Co ($322,470, 80% to GOP) Cintas Corp ($322,222, 100% to GOP)

131 posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:25:01 AM by leapfrog0202

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125410/posts?q=1&;page=101

[unpossibles]

12. good catch and better presentation

:D

[suninvited]

4. Brueggers is a franchise

so the best thing to do is find out who owns your local one, and see if they made any political contributions. I looked up several owners in several locations, and all of them that I found donated to Democratic parties.

If I knew the city you lived in, I could possibly find something.

[Romulox]

5. Corporations are not "blue" or "red". Corporate boards have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize

profit that supersedes all other responsibilities.

[Ian David]

6. Panera is very, VERY Blue. Not sure about Breugers. n/t