A few weeks ago my inbox was full of calls to action to boycott Target for giving $ to a Pac that supported anti gay and lesbian candidate Tom Emmer.
Yet today, as The Daily Beast and others have reported that corporations from 3M to Amazon.com to UPS have given money to a variety of PACs that have given money to Sharon Angle, the focus seems to be on the anti gay Angle's hypocrisy for taking money from companies that provide same sex benefits, rather than the fact that corporations from 3m to Amazon.com are giving money to PACs that are supporting someone like Sharon Angle.
In the annals of Right wing, Christianist whackjob politicians, Angle has shown herself to be among the rightest wing and whackiest.
Her position on homosexuals is certainly no less anti gay than Emmer's - in fact I think the only more anti-gay politicians are the ones in Uganda that wanted to execute them.
Angle's homphobic agenda is only the tip of the iceberg of positions that are divisive and way outside the mainstream. Angle has lost her double digit lead over Harry Reid for a very good reason. She's crazy, clueless and scary.
I understand that many PACs on both sides of the aisle will support their party's candidate no matter what positions they hold. But corporate contributors to these PACS should think twice before contributing to organizations that offer such unwavering support for their parties candidates.
Do 3M, Amazon.com, UPS, Abbott Laboratories, Pepsico, Anheuser Busch and the other corporations that contribute to these PACS really want to be seen as supporting Angel's extremist views? Well by supporting PACS that support her campaign they are doing just that, regardless of what their own corporate policies and positions are. They are supporting a candidate who who thinks the separation of Church and State is unconstitutional, who wants to abolish the department of education and make gay adoption illegal.
Gregg Steinhafel, Target's CEO claimed they were simply supporting candidates that supported their business goals. Elections are about much more than corporate tax policy and industry regulation. Life is about a lot more than how large a quarterly profit a corporation has.
The damage that a congress full of Angle's could do to this country is very deep and possibly irreparable. And the businesses that support such candidacies for their companies' financial gain should be ashamed.