Taco Bell's subliminable campaign to help Ahhhnuld

[Wednesdays]

http://www.tacobell.com/2003recall/

Note that the Davis one is "soft" and "chicken." And that Ahhhnuld is the one with the "beef."

This one is rigged from the beginning, because their hard-shell tacos are their biggest seller, anyway. So of course Ahhhnuld will win this "poll" by a landslide, and the results will be broadcast from here to Bangladesh.

Isn't Taco Bell (a subsidiary of Pepsi Co.) a Repug corporation?

[RobertSeattle]

1. And no Veggie choices either!

In California of all places.

[dArKeR]

2. Taco Hell is Yum Brands

http://www.yum.com/



Look at these Pepsico brands
http://www.pepsico.com/company/brands.shtml

http://darker0darker.tripod.com/

[Wednesdays]

5. Here's some info

They used to be part of Pepsi.

"In 1977 Pizza Hut was acquired by PepsiCo, Inc. As part of PepsiCo, Pizza Hut shared its position with products like Pepsi-Cola® brand soft drinks and Frito-Lay® brand snack foods. In October, 1997, PepsiCo spun off the restaurant businesses (Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell) and Tricon Global Restaurants was founded, making it the world largest resturant group."

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Pizza%20Hut

[maveric]

44. I wouldnt feed that shit to my dog. if I had a dog.

Absolutely indigestable and a far cry from real mexican food.
:puke:

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. eah - who buys chicken soft tacos?

Sheesh.

[mrsteve]

22. I like them, but sure as hell not at Taco Bell

Geez, that place makes my lower digestive system go...umm...badly... :hurts:

[Nomad559]

4. Isn't Taco Bell (a subsidiary of Pepsi Co.) a Repug corporation?

Pepsi sold It sometime ago, I don't remember when.

[RobertSeattle]

6. And wasn't Taco Bell mentioned in a lousy Ahhhnuld Movies?

Something about Taco Bell having taken over the Government?

[DBoon]

8. Demolition Man

In the restaurant wars, Taco Bell won, so all restaurants were Taco Bell

Arnold S. became president owing to a constitutional amendment. The amendnment passed because of his immense popularity.

At the time the movie was considered over-the-top fiction. Once again reality surpasses the most fertile imaginations.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

15. Arnold wasn't in that movie

Sly Stallone/Wesley Snipes POS.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

21. No, but someone said that Sandra Bullocks tells Stallone that Arnold is

the president. I guess maybe he was in a coma or somehow got sent to the future or something like that?

[RobertSeattle]

29. Oops - Got my lunkheads confused

[AP]

7. The media is whoring this one up for Arnold to an ubelievable degree

and so are the corps.

They're afraid of progressive taxation.

[Doctor Pedantic]

9. Disgusting

I saw the ad in the paper this morning and I thought it was wildly inappropriate. I've lived in California all my life, but our politics are, and have been for years, completely screwed up. This recall mess makes a mockery out of the democratic process, and Taco Bell's stunt just makes it more surreal.

Also, the choices (at least in the ad I saw) were for Gray Davis, Ahnuld, or "one of the other 134" candidates. Where do we get to vote for the current front-runner, Cruz Bustamante? Why is he lumped in with the other 134? Was Taco Bell afraid to use Mexican food as a proxy for voting for a Latino?

Just ridiculous....

[dweller]

11. i don't see the NO on the recall choice either

i suppose you would have to stand in line and when it's your turn to order, to just say 'no thanks' and walk out.
I haven't eaten Taco-hell in years and years, but if i lived in Cali, i'd do just that and boycott in action.

since this is gd, i won't post the pic, but follow link below.

whacked.technine.net/archives/mirrored%20images/tacobell.jpg


dp

[zoidberg]

27. A no vote would be not buying from there

I haven't had Taco Bell in nine months, and my digestive track has never been happier.

[KamaAina]

34. No, they were afraid their Mexican* food wasn't authentic enough!

Was Taco Bell afraid to use Mexican food as a proxy for voting for a Latino?

Think about it. "El Gran Bustamante" would have to be short, stout, not too spicy, and (unlike the "Ahh-nuld") not too cheesy -- but filled with genuine, quality ingredients, which are in extremely short supply at Taco Hell!

Then again, if they really wanted to be mean, they would have had the "Gray Davis" be filled with pork...

:-)

[dArKeR]

10. Check out Taco Hell's 'Feedback' link. The prompt you for you age

before you can send them a comment! If not old enough it stores your cookie and you can't use it. This really pisses me off!

Total Boycott Taco Hell and Yum Brands.


Crap, I've just went to Yum Brands contact and it's the same. This time I entered an age over 30 but it get the cookie from Taco Hell and I can't sent an email.

[Qutzupalotl]

26. Call 1-800-TacoBell

and give them a piece of your mind.

[cosmicdot]

12. Board members and their connections

Taco Bell aka Yum Brands formerly known as Tricon Global and Great American Restaurant

Board of Directors

J. David Grissom
Age 64
Director since January 2003
Chairman, Mayfair Capital J. David Grissom is Chairman of Mayfair Capital, Inc., a private investment firm formed by Mr. Grissom in 1989. In addition, Mr. Grissom has been Chairman of The Glenview Trust Company, a private trust and investment management company, since 2001. He is also a director of Churchill Downs Incorporated and Providian Financial Corporation, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Centre College. He was appointed a director of Yum on November 21, 2002 (and joined the Board in January 2003), and is standing for election by shareholders for the first time at the 2003 Annual Meeting.

Bonnie G. Hill
Age 61
Director since March 2003
Chairman, B. Hill Enterprises LLC

Bonnie G. Hill is President of B. Hill Enterprises LLC, a consulting company. She has held this position since July 2001. She is also Chief Operating Officer of Icon Blue, Inc., a brand operating company. She served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Times Mirror Foundation, a charitable foundation affiliated with the Tribune Company from 1997 to 2001 and Senior Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs, of the Los Angeles Times from 1998 to 2001. From 1992 to 1996, she served as Dean of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. Ms. Hill currently serves as a director of ChoicePoint Inc., AK Steel Holding Corporation, Albertson's Inc., Hershey Foods Corporation, The Home Depot, Inc., and National Grid Group plc. She also serves on the boards of many charitable organizations. She was appointed a director of Yum on March 20, 2003 and is standing for election by shareholders for the first time at the 2003 Annual Meeting.


Kenneth G. Langone
Age 66
Director since 1997
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Invemed Associates, LLC

Kenneth G. Langone is the founder, and since 1974, has been Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, of Invemed Associates, LLC, a New York Stock Exchange firm engaged in investment banking and brokerage. He is a founder of Home Depot, Inc. and has been a director since 1978. He is also a director of ChoicePoint, Inc., General Electric Co., and Unifi, Inc.

Andrall E. Pearson
Age 76
Director since 1997
Founding Chairman, Yum

Andrall E. Pearson became Founding Chairman of Yum effective January 1, 2001. From August 15, 1997 to December 31, 2000, he served as Chairman of the Board of Yum, and he previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Company from October 21, 1997 to January 1, 2000. Mr. Pearson served as an operating partner of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a leveraged buy-out firm, from 1993 to 1997. He was President and Chief Operating Officer of PepsiCo, Inc. from 1971 through 1984 and served on PepsiCo's Board of Directors for 26 years, retiring in April 1996. From 1985 to 1993 he was a tenured professor at Harvard Business School. Mr. Pearson is a director of Citigroup Inc. He is also a trustee of the New York University Medical School.

Robert Holland, Jr. maintains a consulting practice for strategic development assistance to senior management of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to this, he was Chief Executive Officer of WorkPlace Integrators, Michigan's largest Steelcase office furniture dealer, from June 1997 until April 2001. From 1995 to 1996, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.

From 1981 to 1984 and from 1991 to 1995, Mr. Holland served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rokher-J, Inc., which participates in business development projects and provides strategy development assistance to senior management of major corporations. Mr. Holland is also a director of MONY Group Inc., Mazaruni Granite Products, Carver Federal Bank and Lexmark International, Inc.

Sidney Kohl
Age 72
Director since 1997

Sidney Kohl, along with other family members, developed Kohl's Food Stores, Wisconsin's largest supermarket chain, and Kohl's Department Stores, now a national (New York Stock Exchange) department store chain. He served as President and Chairman when the two entities were sold in 1972. Since 1980, Mr. Kohl has been the president of the Sidney Kohl Company which owns and manages a variety of investments and owns and manages real estate it has developed. Mr. Kohl is a director of Kinko's, Inc.

David C. Novak
Age 50
Director since 1997
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President, Yum

David C. Novak became Chairman of the Board on January 1, 2001, and Chief Executive Officer of Yum on January 1, 2000. He also serves as President of Yum, a position he has held since October 21, 1997. Mr. Novak previously served as Group President and Chief Executive Officer, KFC and Pizza Hut from August 1996 to July 1997, at which time he became acting Vice Chairman of Yum. Mr. Novak joined Pizza Hut in 1986 as Senior Vice President, Marketing. In 1990, he became Executive Vice President, Marketing and National Sales, for Pepsi-Cola Company. In 1992 he became Chief Operating Officer, Pepsi-Cola North America, and in 1994 he became President and Chief Executive Officer of KFC North America. He is a director of Bank One Corporation.

Jackie Trujillo
Age 67
Director since 1997
Chairman of the Board, Harman Management Corporation

Jackie Trujillo has been Chairman of the Board of Harman Management Corporation, one of KFC's largest franchisees, since 1995. She joined the Harman Management Corporation organization in 1953 and held various positions, becoming Executive Vice President of Operations in 1983, with responsibility for operations of its restaurants in Utah, Colorado, Washington and Northern California. From 1987 to 1995, she served as Executive Vice Chairman of Harman Management Corporation.


James Dimon
Age 47
Director since 1997
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank One Corporation

James Dimon is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank One Corporation, a position he has held since 2000. From November 1998 until he assumed his position with Bank One, he was a private investor. Prior to that he served as President of Citigroup Inc., having held that position during October and November 1998 following the merger of Travelers Group Inc. and Citicorp. From September 1991 until October 1998, he was a director of Travelers Group Inc. From November 1993 to October 1998, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Travelers Group Inc., as well as serving in several other executive positions with Travelers' subsidiaries Smith Barney, Inc. and Salomon Barney, Inc. during that period. Mr. Dimon is a trustee of New York University Medical Center and a director of the Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse.

Massimo Ferragamo
Age 45
Director since 1997
President and Vice Chairman of Ferragamo USA, Inc.

Massimo Ferragamo is Chairman of Ferragamo USA, Inc., a subsidiary of Salvatore Ferragamo Italia, which controls sales and distribution of Ferragamo products in North America. Mr. Ferragamo has held this position since 1985. Mr. Ferragamo is also a director of Mayers Jewelers, Inc.

Thomas M. Ryan
Age 50
Director since 2002
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, CVS Corporation and CVS Pharmacy, Inc.

Thomas M. Ryan is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of CVS Corporation. He became Chairman of CVS in April 1999 and Chief Executive Officer and President in May 1998. From 1994 to present, Mr. Ryan also served as Chief Executive Officer and President of CVS Pharmacy, Inc. Mr. Ryan is a director of FleetBoston Financial Corporation and Reebok International Ltd.

Robert J. Ulrich
Age 59
Director since 1997
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Target Corporation and Target Stores

Robert J. Ulrich is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Target Corporation and Target Stores. He became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Target Stores in 1987 and assumed his additional present position with Target Corporation in 1994.


http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104746903010462/a2105087zdef14a.htm

[arcane1]

20. ChoicePoint? Did you say goddamn CHOICEPOINT????

ChoicePoint of Florida voter-roll-purging fame????

Figures, these inbred corporate bastards

[Minstrel Boy]

31. ChoicePoint? I suppose we can expect

thousands of soft chicken tacos to be mysteriously purged.

:puke:

[ctex]

23. Senator Kohl's (D-WI) brother Sidney is on the Board

Maybe Sen. Kohl's office could help us find out what is going with Taco Bell boosting Arnie's campaign?

Also note that Robert Ulrich the CEO of Target (Senator Mark Dayton's company) is on the Board. Maybe by working through the offices of these two Demoratic Senaotors we could get Taco Bell to modify its contest more to our liking.

[Paschall]

13. Think Outside the Bun? WTF?!

Is that TacoBellese for "get your head out of your ass?" Sheesh, it'd be nice if they would!

[AP]

14. It's a little sick to equate consumption/consumerism with democracy

It's offensive.

[realFedUp]

16. and CNN's subliminable campaign to diss Davis

I saw the bandleading gestures of Davis yesterday
on CNN more than a few times. It really reminded me of all the times
CNN et al rewound that tape of Bill and Monica.

Unfair and unbalanced as usual.

[dfong63]

17. disgusting

the only proper choice in this "election" is to vote with my feet - and stay the hell away from taco hell.

i mean, give me a break, an "election" where you can vote as many times as you want by buying some shit product? an "election" where only candidates chosen by taco bell appear on the ballot? this isn't even a close approximation to democracy.

taco hell deserves to be boycotted for this obscenity.

[LuCifer]

18. F. Taco Bell! TACO VIVA ALL THE WAY BABY!!!!

Taco Bell is so sorry. The few times I've had the ill fortune to eat their "food" it has ALWAYS given me a royal nasty case of the schmitts!

Hmm, I think I'll send Jeb up some Taco Bell! "OH YOU'RE SUCH A GREAT GOVNR JEBBY!!!!!!"

Lu Cifer

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

19. Hey, maybe for the 2008 Presidential election they could get Bruce Willis

into some governership and Arnold and other right-wing actors could run too and then we could all go to Taco Bell to "vote" for our "president." Then we could all just laugh and laugh all the way to the poor house.

[sham]

24. of course it's rigged... look at the prices

granted, these are TX prices, and they may be different in CA, but I'm sure they are proportionate:

beef crunch taco: $.59
chicken soft taco: $1.39
(that's an $.80 difference!!!)
and grilled stuft burrito: $1.99

fucking nasty Taco Bell....

[Ein]

25. And you can go get a pizza

And vote for TB's Floridian farm workers.

[Doctor Pedantic]

28. Taco Bell Is Getting Flooded With Complaints!

I called Taco Bell at 1-800-Taco-Bell to register a complaint. The woman I spoke to was very nice and took down my concerns. I chatted her up a little...she said the phone has been ringing off the hook from the moment she got to work this morning, and 100% of the calls she got were to complain. People addressed the disrespect to the political process, the partisan nature based on the pricing, the possible racism in relegating Cruz Bustamante, the front runner, to the "other" category, etc.

Get on the horn, people! I think we may be heading towards a retraction. This is what grass roots is all about.

[hang a left]

32. I just got off the phone with

Tagop Bell, the representative admitted to me that the crunchy beef taco is their biggest seller. He mentioned that Taco Bell is reevaluating their promotion.

[robbedvoter]

30. Also, the 'soft chicken" is "not yet available" - just in case

people would actually try to "vote" for Davis - it's diebolded.
By all means, complain! The entire thing is offensive on so many levels (starting with "buying a vote")
My letter:

Who says you cannot buy votes?
People who believe in democracy, that's who (astonishingly there are still some of us left). I cannot start describing on how many levels this stunt of yours is wrong: mocking voting rights, subverting campaign financing laws by providing support for your beefcake candidate (the "subliminable" insult to Davis has not gone unnoticed), alocating the designated loser an yet non-existing product - hence - no way to vote, trying to confuse voters into believing that your aging bodybuilder runs against Davis when in effect there is a recall question, your relegating Cruz Bustamante to " the rest of the 140" candidates....
One thing is sure: I won't patronize your estabishment (now will my family and many friends) until you remove that offensive assault on both our intelligence and our democracy.
Sincerely
A former customer

[hang a left]

33. kicking to page 1

[CMT]

35. I live in Wisconsin but am boycotting Taco Bell

and I love their beef tacos--you're right this is thinly veiled attempt to help Arnold.

[realFedUp]

36. The result of this though....

is this story will be on CNNers, MessyNBC or Weasel News
and Taco Bell gets the free advertising...Ahnold's
lemmings will buy beef tacos by the box load and
Taco Bell, Ahnold and crass commercialism win again.

[Democat]

37. What they are doing should be illegal

They are promoting Arnold and not Cruz. Davis is not on the ballot

Is this legal under campaign finance laws?

Imagine that Walmart ran ads promoting one candidate, would that be legal?

[KamaAina]

38. Guess what everyone else in the office is having for lunch today?

(it is not yet lunch time in HI)

I heard them going around and taking orders about a half hour after I saw this thread! Yucko, in more ways than one!

And in case you're wondering...

...I'm "abstaining". I'm going to the Korean joint down the block, where beef stew (an island specialty, believe it or not) is the daily special. (Is there a Korean-American candidate on the ballot? Does this count as a vote for him/her? :-) )

[kentuck]

39. Boycott Taco Bell for these chickenshit tactics !

Hit them in their pocketbooks.

[VermontDem2004]

40. who gives a fuck?

To me what they are doing is stupid and I don't think this well in anyway determine who the winner will be.

[Democat]

41. There are full page ads in newspapers - it will help Arnold

The ads show only Davis and Arnold, not in that order.

This election may be very close and the fact that they are promoting Arnold and not Cruz is a big deal.

They are trying to marginalize the Democratic candidate in a statewide big advertising campaign.

If you think political ads don't work, think again.

[Doctor Pedantic]

45. The ad is also misleading

In a misguided attempt to appear "fair and balanced" (don't sue!), Taco Bell has the following disclaimer: "We've assigned one Taco Bell® product to the Governor and one to the leading candidate of the opposing party, along with one product for all other candidates...."

This implies that there is an election between Davis on the one hand, and Schwarzenegger on the other. That's not true -- in fact, the CA Supreme Court held (incorrectly) that Davis is prohibited from running as his own replacement candidate. So the choices should be between "yes" or "no" on the recall, or using the "leading candidate for each party" logic, between Bustamante and Schwarzenegger.

Is this a minor issue? Kinda. But elections have been decided on lesser issues than this.

[maveric]

42. Davis=chicken? Wasnt he decorated in Viet Nam?

What acts of bravery did Shitzenegger ever accomplish?

[tom_paine]

43. A massive assault on Breastus Hill and Buttocks Gulch

facing stiff resistance and a hostile resistance force, Ahnold payed no mind to the Geneva Convention to show that

real men fondle women against their will all the time!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

And such is the pathetic State of the Empire, I think he's going to win.

(though I hope not)

[Ouabache]

46. I have boycotted Taco Smell for 5 or 6 years now

Looks like I have been doing the right thing.

What I don't understand is that with the Mexican immigrant influx all over the US and genuinely authentic Mexican Restaurants with carry-out nearly everywhere, why would anyone patronize their disgusting imitations prepared in some of the dirtiest looking kitchens I have ever seen ?

:shrug: