Providence Phoenix article on Buying Blue

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Shop at your own risk
Do you eat Pop-Tarts? Play Tony Hawk? Wipe with Charmin? Well, guess what? You're funding the funders of the right.
BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN

Few people spend much time considering which brand of almonds to buy. But progressives just might want to take that extra moment the next time they’re in the snack aisle. That’s because a Florida company called US Sugar Corp. owns Blue Diamond almonds, and US Sugar’s founder and co-CEO, Donald G. Tobin, serves on the board of the Manhattan Institute, one of the country’s leading conservative think tanks. US Sugar Corp. also gave $410,000 last year to a Florida group called Families for Conservative Values, which funneled the money to other groups opposing Democrats and progressive ballot measures in that state.

You’re not going to bring Tobin, US Sugar Corp., or the Manhattan Institute to their knees by putting down that can of almonds. And you can’t possibly hope to avoid buying anything that profits conservatives. But you should know where your money is going.

If you’re a pro-choice woman in the Boston area, odds are you’ve heard that the founder and CEO of the fitness chain Curves, Gary Heavin, supports and funds pro-life causes. As a result, so many women have decided not to join the clubs that the Curves corporation has gone on the defensive, trying to show that Heavin’s contributions are not as bad as people say.

But even if you have decided to withhold your money, when feasible, from those who campaign against progressive causes, it can be awfully hard to know which companies, and which products, to pick and choose through.

http://www.providencephoenix.com/features/other_stories/multi_1/documents/04931182.asp

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1. in a paper no less

the pendulum IS swinging

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2. Uh oh, time to drop Charmin!

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3. Tony Hawk is pro-war? Or Electronic Arts?

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4. The way I read it

it was Electronic ARts. It mentioned the video game.

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5. I can't imagine Tony being too much of a Bush Bot...EA though:

EA is the reason why most video games are poorly plotted brain candy with flashy colors instead of groundbreaking video entertainment that displays both artistic stlye and good storytelling.

They also jerk around small developers like its going out of style. This buncha jerkwads are the main reason why there are no good PC games and tons of platform tripe that look and play virtually the same.

They also make the same DAMN GAME EVERY YEAR: John Madden football is the same game with new stats and slightly updated graphics...year in-year out.