Target struggles with donation backlash

Dan82 · Aug 14, 2010

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Conservative activists said Friday that Target Corp. won't quell the controversy over its corporate donations if the retailer gives in to demands from the left to renounce involvement in political campaigns or to help gay-friendly candidates.

Charlie Weaver, a leader of a political organization supporting a conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, said the pressure from gays and liberal organizations on Target amounts to "thuggery."

"This is simply an attempt to intimidate companies from doing what the Supreme Court said they're entitled to do, exercise their free speech," said Weaver, treasurer of MN Forward, a campaign group that got $150,000 from Target last month.

A GOP state lawmaker said the controversy, including protests and calls for a boycott by gay leaders, has put Target in a bind.

"They're darned if they do something and they're darned if they don't," said Rep. Marty Seifert, a Republican from Marshall.

Contributors to a conservative Facebook page on the controversy also warned the company of a backlash from the right.

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Emberstone · Aug 14, 2010

the reason america is so screwed up right now is because facist assholes have forced the incorrect notion that money=speech. that is the problem. the elections are all bought.

money is simply money. the idea that money=speech devalues actually expression.

I no longer matter, because I am not apart of the coorporate elite, and cant afford to drop millions upon millions of dollars to buy election results.

Thank you coorporate-facist conservatives for cutting "we the people" out of america.

Just Adam · Aug 15, 2010

^ that

uk its just we say it the politicians say i hear you then ignore us >.>

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