Comments on: Target enacts new political giving policies

By: Lionel Webb

Lionel Webb — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:28:16 +0000

They seem to have missed the entire point of this. I don’t understand why more companies don’t understand that business has no place in politics–regardless of what the Supreme Court says. Corporations should remain “agnostic” to politics–there is no amount of good that can come from the offense of a customer.

Stick to making money.

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:17:13 +0000

@Justin: I have been searching for info on Target’s affiliation with Christian dominionism, after reading about it in Talk2Action, and have been unsuccessful. Can you provide a link or two to get me started? TIA….

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:04:58 +0000

Wait a min…..don’t the officers and senior advisors of this corporation owe any and all profits to their shareholders? Any money spent comes right out of corporate profits, no mater which “budget” it is accounted to ,thus limiting the return to investors. Sounds like a class action lawsuit just awaiting the “right” shareholders to file………………………………..

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:58:56 +0000

It’s not volunteering and generosity when the money comes out of the marketing budget.

By: reggie777

reggie777 — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:14:24 +0000

Creating a board to “decide” is smoke and mirrors. All they have to do is choose people who will vote the way the company wants them to, in fear of losing their jobs. TARGET will still not get my hard earned cash.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:21:16 +0000

“Carlson added the new policy committee will determine whether Target will make political contributions directly to candidates, political parties or to other groups such as 527 or 501(c)(4) committees”……….they didn’t confirm this will not happen again they are implying that they will not get caught directly supporting them……

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:21:41 +0000

BS…MS…Piled Higher and Deeper.

By: Logan Quinn

Logan Quinn — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:45:33 +0000

I can’t speak for others but my boycott of Target has nothing to do with Emmer’s stance on gay-marriage. It had everything to do with Emmer’s support of a group calling the murder of gays as “moral”. And Target by supporting Emmer was supporting that message. And everyone seems to want to brush this under the rug. meanwhile gay kids are killing themselves left and right from being bombbarded by messages like this and the idiot ramblings of nincompoop’s like Justin Bieber.

And Target “establishing a policy committee made up of senior executives to guide decision-making” is laughable as one would assume senior executives and the CEO were already guiding their previous ill-conceived decisions.

By: Justin Belsley

Justin Belsley — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:22:23 +0000

Learning how to appease the LGBT community through tokenism does not change the fact that Target’s ultimate interests lie with Right wing fascist nut jobs.