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2011-08-17 Home Front: Politix

Starbucks Chief Calls for Political Donation Boycott

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Opensecrets.org: Howard Schultz Starbucks CEO

Quite the political campaign donor slut.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-17 02:45|| 2011-08-17 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 What he says is truth. If only he others would follow these words.

Posted by 49 Pan 2011-08-17 07:33|| 2011-08-17 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 ..the government needs discipline..

Haven't seen either fiscal restraint or restraint from regulatory self empowerment in decades by either party, what has changed to altered that behavior now? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-17 08:58|| 2011-08-17 08:58|| Front Page Top

#4 This rings as hollow as Warren Buffett's bloviation the other day, which pleasantly enough, was greeted with a tidal wave of cynicism by the peanut gallery. People are wising up to such bulldada.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-17 09:05|| 2011-08-17 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 I would think he was serious about reform, if he wasn't a complete lefty.

Sorry Junior, you don't pass the smell test.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-08-17 10:29|| 2011-08-17 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 "Think of it as a variation on the Lysistrata tactic."

TW for Snarkess of the Day

Posted by Chaque Sproing8625 2011-08-17 11:37|| 2011-08-17 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 "Our companies are going to hire. We are going to accelerate growth, employment, and investment in jobs," he said. "Confidence is contagious. The best thing we can do now is to spread it."

"of course the tax breaks and favorable treatment gained through political influence will help..."

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-17 11:40|| 2011-08-17 11:40|| Front Page Top

#8 "Our companies are going to hire. We are going to accelerate growth, employment, and investment in jobs," he said. "Confidence is contagious. The best thing we can do now is to spread it."

What am I missing? Spread "confidence" by ending private participation in the process and donations?

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-17 11:48|| 2011-08-17 11:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The only trouble with the Lysistrata analogy is that politicians and donors are more akin to siamese twins than spouses.

Posted by Spot 2011-08-17 12:12|| 2011-08-17 12:12|| Front Page Top

#10 If I go back and look, will I find that Mr. "All those politicians are rotten" was donating predominantly to democrats? Oh, look, an already filled out link to Open Secrets...

Patty Murray, John Edwards, Barack Obama, Max Baucus, and some other democrats. No republicans.

While there are a lot of republicans I _don't_ like, I can at least find some I do, which is more than I can say for the democrats.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-08-17 12:35|| 2011-08-17 12:35|| Front Page Top

#11 "that sets our nation on stronger long-term fiscal footing"

If they're looking for that, shouldn't they be donating to the TEA party folks, or at least to the Repubilicans?

Posted by JonC 2011-08-17 13:30|| 2011-08-17 13:30|| Front Page Top

#12 He said "footing" not "looting"...

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-17 14:52|| 2011-08-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#13 If they're looking for that, shouldn't they be donating to the TEA party folks

Indeed. With their ability to cause economic disruption not only at home, but throughout Europe too, the Tea Party is the most powerful force on the planet and a danger to all carbon-based life. The only hope is to try and buy them off.

Posted by SteveS 2011-08-17 15:54|| 2011-08-17 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 You left off your sarc tag, SteveS.

Or is that you, Shakey?

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-17 17:24|| 2011-08-17 17:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Nope. Not me. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even I wouldn't name a sock-puppet 'SteveS' LOLs

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-17 17:37|| 2011-08-17 17:37|| Front Page Top

#16 That was me, Barbara. Just channeling some Democratic Party talking-point spouting media weasel I heard on the news yesterday. I figure the sark tags are implicit here at the 'Burg. Maybe they are in the news media too, since I can't for the life of me imagine how the Tea Party's influence reaches across the Atlantic.

Posted by SteveS 2011-08-17 17:40|| 2011-08-17 17:40|| Front Page Top

#17 since I can't for the life of me imagine how the Tea Party's influence reaches across the Atlantic.

SteveS, I've read that there are independently self-organized TEA (taxed enough already) party groups in England, and somewhere in Europe -- Germany, perhaps? google it, no doubt the answer will pop up. We always have been a subversive influence; there are those who claim the French Revolution was a response to the success of the American one...but of course they put their own stamp on it.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-17 18:47|| 2011-08-17 18:47|| Front Page Top

#18 I read an article by a British columnist who thought they had done a good job addressing their spending problems, until witnessing how the House Pubs were doing/did this summer, and felt how little they had done.

Also, talking heads mentioned something about a balanced budget ammendment, likely to innoculate themselves from being forced to pick the EU tab.

Both of which are fiscal responsibility, which the TEA Party advocates.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-17 19:05|| 2011-08-17 19:05|| Front Page Top

#19 Well, of COURSE he wants a donation boycott, now that many of Obama's donors are likely to shift more heavily to the Right than to the Left ....

Posted by lotp 2011-08-17 21:15|| 2011-08-17 21:15|| Front Page Top

#20 Good to hear, SteveS.

It's getting hard to tell....

Posted by Barbara 2011-08-17 23:07|| 2011-08-17 23:07|| Front Page Top

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