MaryMc wrote:

> On 2008-01-21 03:17:27 -0800, Blinky the Shark >
> said:
>
>> Steve Pope wrote:
>>
>>> Even back when I ate fast food, I mostly avoided Carl's Jr. due to
>>> Karcher's rightist politics.
>>
>> Okay, I wouldn't even know about the politics of someone like that. Do
>> you actually research the founders/owners/officers of companies to
>> determine if you will use their products?
>
> Not a s a rule--but when thery're way out there fo all to see, I do take
> note. Karcher's active support for extreme right-wing causes goes way
> back. He was biggest financial supporter of the Briggs Initiative in
> California, the first anti-*** ballot initiative, back in 1978 (it would
> have fired all *** teachers and public school employees, and anyone who
> put forth the opinion that being *** was an acceptable way to live). He
> was a big supporter of John Schmitz, who was a far-right loony and John
> Birch Society member (and, at the time, the state senator for my
> district in Newport Beach). He gave to the campaign to defeat the Equal
> righta Ammendment, and anti-choice organizations, and oher causes I
> strongly disagreed with.
>
> He had the perfect right to do all that, of course--I just wans't
> willing to give him any of my money to do it with.

As, of course you have the right to do (withhold money). Of every $5 one
spent on a meal at Carl's, I wonder now much of that would've gone into
Karcher's pocket. Are there enough zeros in captivity to pad out that
decimal ($0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000...1) that
far?


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