Home Depot now the biggest corporate donor to 2020 election objectors

[Fritz Walter]

Boycott Home Despot!
NOW!

It has been years since I've set foot in one of their stores, and it looks like it will be decades before I do so again.

From Yahoo Finance:

Home Depot (HD) became the new leader through the end of February thanks to a surge of $140,000 last month alone. The company has now reportedly donated $265,000 in total to these lawmakers, dubbed the "Sedition Caucus" by political opponents. All told, 48 of the 147 lawmakers in this group have received money from the company’s PAC.

“No corporation can truly claim to be on the side of democracy while they throw money at the election objectors in Congress who tried to finish what violent insurrectionists started,” Accountable.US president Kyle Herrig said in a statement after the latest numbers came out.

To see whose names are on the Sedition Caucus list, click here.

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Just cut up my HD credit card. How about everyone here at DU do

the same. If you work there that’s different, a job is a job.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

13. Never had one... nor will I ever shop there again!!

[NoMoreRepugs]

17. Agreed.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. When I go to such stores I usually got to HD....not anymore.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. I patronize the blue "L" store exclusively and have ever since I discovered HD was owned by Nazis.

[lindysalsagal]

16. Guess I'll have to, as well. Good information!

[Botany]

4. Don't forget Browns owner Jimmy Haslam too. Since this list was put together he has helped fund ...

"the big lie."


The league’s most prolific political donors were as follows: Falcons owner Arthur Blank ($1,177,744), Dolphins owner Stephen Ross ($673,450), Jets absentee owner (and current U.S. ambassador to Great Britain) Woody Johnson ($354,400), Browns owners Jimmy Haslam ($319,200) and Dee Haslam ($341,600), Buccaneers chairman and co-owner Edward Glazer ($254,000), Panthers owner David Tepper ($205,000), Bengals owner Mike Brown ($106,900), Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill ($91,499), Vikings owner Zygi Wilf ($58,900), Chargers owner Dean Spanos ($53,750) and Patriots owner Robert Kraft ($51,200).

https://www.si.com/nfl/2020/11/03/nfl-owners-players-coaches-commissioner-political-donations

[Bev54]

5. I don't know about US but in Canada it seems orange is their colour!

[NJCher]

6. I have a great local hardware store

and knowledgeable people running it. I don't need HD and only go there if I'm desperate, like at 9 p.m. and the local guy isn't open and I need a wrench or something to fix a plumbing leak.

But thanks for the reminder. It reinforces my resolve to never patronize these anti-Democratic stores.

[niyad]

7. Have been boycotting them for decades. Will continue.

[alittlelark]

8. I've been going to Lowes since 2004 when HD had voter registration in the front

But ONLY interested in registering R's.

[Thunderbeast]

9. Big Box Orange has been telling consumers that the MAGA evil left when the founder retired.

HD spent millions trying to separate it's story from retired founder, Bernie Marcus.

His legacy of radcal right-wing activism left a stain on corporate culture.

Most major corporations (AT&T, State Farm etc) participate in ALEC...an evil cabal of corporate radicals dedicated to preserving and concentrating wealth through the maniplation of political power. Home Depot is among the worst!

[2naSalit]

10. Already do...

As do many of my neighbors. One of the founders owns a whole bunch of property in my county and is trying to acquire more but the local won't sell to him anymore. He has a high end dude ranch close by and lots of tfg's friends and relatives go there as do some of pootie's buddies. It's really a small world for them.

[albacore]

11. Lowe's PAC contributed $265K to Dems, $442K to Repubs in the 2020 cycle.

Big companies tend to support Repubs because R's are perceived as supporters of business.
Local is the answer when it comes to hardware... and lumber.
The local guys have answers to questions, too. And suggestions, even.

Ever buy lumber at HD? Fucking airplane propellers... with splits and knots! Our local building materials store has actual, decent wood. Prices are higher, but when you build with shit, you end up with shit.

[dsc]

12. thanks for posting this

I will be buying a frig, a washer, a dryer, two ceiling fans, a garbage disposal, and a fence. None of it shall be coming from Home depot.

[MOMFUDSKI]

14. I sent Corporate an Email

saying I am done with them and why. And that they will stick with that sedition caucus because that is the party that gives them the big tax breaks. And that I am telling everyone I know about their position. And SHAME ON YOU