Businesses offering discounts to Tea Party members

[mike r]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/businesses-offering-discounts-to-tea-party-members-857218.html

Businesses offering discounts to Tea Party members
By John Nolan, Staff Writer

DAYTON — About 30 local businesses are participating in a program to link conservative consumers with businesses owned by conservatives to help support the Tea Party. Donald Hutchinson, a businessman and Tea Party supporter, calls his initiative the Tea Party Exchange Inc.

Tea Party supporters who obtain a TPX-Great American card — similar to a customer-loyalty card consumers can attach to key rings — and show it at a participating business can get a discount on the company’s services. The local merchant then gives 5 percent of the sale revenue to the local Tea party chapter to help fund rallies. “It might attract some customers. It might drive some away,” said Herb Asher, an Ohio State University political science professor. “If I were a businessperson, the first thing I’d ask: Is this a winner or a loser for me?”

Hutchinson is co-founder and president of Essex HR and Associates, a Washington Twp. human resources consultant. He said he plans to speak at the national March on DC Tea Party rally Sept. 11 in Washington, D.C., and will promote the Tea Party Exchange concept to other chapters of the Tea Party, whose members advocate for reducing taxes and cutting spending and the size of government.

But businessman Greg McAfee, president and owner of McAfee Heating and Air Conditioning in Kettering, said his company is participating in the Tea Party Exchange, along with about a dozen other businesses. McAfee said Thursday that since he started speaking at Tea Party rallies in April 2009, he received four negative letters from customers who said they would stop using his company because of his politics. But McAfee said he also has received about 75 positive letters and e-mails from conservative consumers, and that they have helped bring him an increase in new customers since then.

[Historic NY]

1. Well at least people now know which places to avoid.

[lib2DaBone]

2. What if I say I am a Conservative just to get 10% off my Chicken Wings?

If I say I love Jesus.. do I get 20% Off?

[AnArmyVeteran]

6. No one could pay me to say I am a conservative!

But getting 20% for saying a couple of Jesus words out there might be okay, as long as I didn't say I was conservative. That gives me the willies just thinking about it.

[marmar]

3. The Frequent F**kheads Card

nt

[Contrary1]

4. The list is shorter than it was earlier today...

Remax has been removed, as well as Tropical Smoothie. The latter may have had something to do with this comment:

The Tropical Smoothie Cafe in Fairborn OH is in no way affiliated with the TEA PARTY. The association with the tea party is held by the Tropical Smoothie located at 6241 Far Hills in Centerville, OH. The owner of this store has taken upon himself to associate all Tropical Smoothies in the Dayton area with the Tea Party without approval of individual store owners. I can not speak for others stores, however, in no way is the Tropical Smoothie in Fairborn/WSU associated with the Tea Party Movement.

Tropical Smoothie
12:16 PM, 8/13/201

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. A Useful List for Boycotting!

[Tunkamerica]

7. my brother and his gf just moved to dayton

i sent the link, thanks.

[Missy Vixen]

8. The construction company who prominently displayed R signs here

went under a few months ago. They papered the chain-link fence in front of the business with those 3' long campaign signs.

Let's just say that even if we had the cash for a remodel or other project, we wouldn't have been calling them.

The "tea party discount" will bite the owners of those businesses in a big way.

[havocmom]

9. Idiots equate a lot of noise with a lot of people (and a market)

You are correct, it will bite them big time.

A lot of noise, is just that.

[Fleshdancer]

10. I'm trying to think of a business that would benefit from this

What service or product would you have to sell that only speaks to the teabagging consumer?

Tea? Ironically enough, no.

Dictionaries? :rofl: Funny Fleshdancer! Very funny!


Hideous flag clothes? My initial instinct tells me yes, but it might alienate the non-teabag republican customers.


Confederate flags? DING DING DING DING!

[havocmom]

11. guns and ammo?

;)