Calling All Dems: Stop Funding GOP Causes

April 11, 2005
Calling All Dems: Stop Funding GOP Causes

Arguably, the most under-utilized resource rank and file Democrats have at their disposal is consumer spending choice. Worse, most of us inadvertantly give money to the GOP every day by supporting corporations that fund Republican candidates, while contributing very little, if anything at all, to Democrats. Grab a burger at Wendy's, for example, and you have made a contribution to their PAC, which gives 93 percent of it's dough to the GOP. (Click here for a longer list of companies that give more than 90 percent of their PAC money to Republicans.}

But who has time to keep up with the political spending patterns of Fortune 500 companies? The Center for American Progress, that's who. The CAP's American Progress Action Fund has launched a campaign to "Tell Corporate America to Drop the Hammer," targeting five corporations that have contributed to Tom ("The Hammer") DeLay's defense fund. They are: American Airlines ($5K); Bacardi ($3K); Nissan ($5K); R. J. Reynolds ($17K) and Verizon ($5K)....