New Tea Party Strategy: Target Companies That Appear to Support White House

[Joanne98]

In case anyone has been confused about the agenda of the billionaires backing the Tea party, this should put it to rest once for all. It's a shakedown:


Jesse Jackson isn't the only activist that can use corporate boycotts for political purposes. Starting next year, the huge Tea Party organizer FreedomWorks will urge supporters to punish huge corporations like General Electric and Johnson and Johnson for backing President Obama's progressive agenda.

In an exclusive review for Whispers of their plan, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe says: "Tea Party activists are willing to tackle progressive CEOs just as they tackled progressive politicians. Judging by the results of the midterm elections, progressive CEOs should buckle up, because Tea Party activists are going to give them a very bumpy ride."

His project partner, Tom Borelli, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, added: "Big businesses are now on notice that there is a measurable business risk for actively supporting the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi progressive public policy agenda."

Their initial focus will be on consumer firms that lobbied for passage of Obama's agenda items that helped their firms. "We are going after the rent-seeking corporations feeding at the public trough," said FreedomWorks' spokesman Adam Brandon.

The groups released a new Wilson Research Strategies poll to Whispers which shows how companies could suffer when conservatives are told of their support for Obama's agenda. The poll found that when customers are told of a consumer product firm's support for healthcare reform, bailouts, cap-and-trade energy policies or other issues pushed by the administration, their favorability among conservatives plummets.



The clever part of this is that they will frame this as a "clean government" initiative, to root out corrupt alliances between the Democrats and their corporate masters. And Democrats, who are concerned about such things as well will be unlikely to defend these corporations. Indeed, we will be helping to punish them, for all the right reasons.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/352947/new_tea_party_strategy%3A_target_companies_that_appear_to_support_white_house/#paragraph4

[Kber]

1. Going after corporations that feed at the public trough

like Exxon? Like Banks? Like mortgage companies?

Should be interesting.

[OHdem10]

2. It is beginning to look as if the Tea Party is going to overplay

their hand early.

We need to have some watchers to keep an eye on Tea Baggers
to see what happens when the Lobbyists begin to swarm.
Do they succomb to the ways of Washington???

[XanaDUer]

3. Here's one

http://www.teapartytracker.org/