Flipping the Bird to Bipartisanship in 2015

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Monday October 05, 2015 · 9:13 PM PDT

2015/10/05 · 21:13

An old friend posted a meme that essentially said that the Left-wing and the Right-wing were both attached to the same bird. Below is my response.

As a political science graduate, that has not been true since I was a youth. What we call the left today, was the center in my youth. I can remember when I was on a first-name basis with the chairmen of both my county's Republican and Democratic Parties, and they were friends who often sat together at political events. That was not too long after Dan Evens went from being the Republican governor, to being man who made the Evergreen State College the hippy paradise it still largely is. Of course, that's so long ago, I was youngest chapter officer in Young Republicans. Yes, I used to be a staunch Goldwater Republican.

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 3:52 PM PDT

2010/08/16 · 15:52

When the Citizen United verdict came out, we all knew it was only a matter of time before some large corporation would take advantage of it in a gratuitous way. I was assuming the first big offender would be one of the large corporations that do not deal directly with the public for the bulk of their business, like ADM, ConAgra, or Monsanto. I was shocked when it turned out to be a retailer with as diverse of a customer base as Target.

Target made the news when it donated $150,000 to the group Minnesota Forward, a newly created organization that has yet to do anything other than create and place commercials supporting Tom Emmer's campaign for Minnesota Governor.

As is often the case, timing is everything. The news of Target's political gift happend to hit the news the same day they announced here in Seattle that they were finally opening a store in downtown Seattle. That ended up creating the sort of local attention to their actions in another state that they probably were not expecting, and got a group of Seattle area political activists thinking. As you may know, Seattle is famous for starting a few musical trends...

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Flipping the Bird to Bipartisanship in 2015

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