You like "Urban Outfitters"? Well...

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Another e-mail snippety snippet:


5. Urban Outfitters President is Big Santorum Supporter


Someone emailed me recently asking if it was true that Urban Outfitters was a big supporter of anti-gay bigot Senator Rick Santorum.  I did some checking on the Web, and in fact, the Chairman & President of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne, is a big Santorum donor (Fight-PAC, mentioned below, is a political action committee run by Santorum).  

According to a story I just found in the Philadelphia Weekly: "While the typical Urban Outfitters shopper is likely to be liberal-minded--as is the province and privilege of youth--the fiftysomething Hayne is mom-and-apple-pie conservative. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Paleolithic right-wing Republican Sen. Rick Santorum..." - You can read more about Richard Hayne here:
http://www.phillyweekly.com/archives/article.asp?ArtID=5725 



Wonder how Urban Outfitters' young clientele would feel about all of this?  Here are the detailed donations, from FECInfo.



HAYNE, RICHARD A
5/14/1997 $1,000.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS -
SANTORUM 2000




HAYNE, RICHARD A
7/20/1998 $500.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS -
SANTORUM 2000




HAYNE, RICHARD
11/7/2000 $5,000.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS -
REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA



Hayne, Richard
4/16/2001 $2,500.00
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Urban Outfitters/Chairman -
REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA



HAYNE, RICHARD
12/8/1998 $3,000.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
URBAN OUTFITTERS -
FIGHT-PAC



HAYNE, MARGARET
5/14/1997 $1,000.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS INC -
SANTORUM 2000




HAYNE, MARGARET
7/20/1998 $500.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS INC -
SANTORUM 2000




HAYNE, MARGARET
12/31/1997 $900.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118
URBAN OUTFITTERS INC -
SANTORUM '94




HAYNE, MARGARET A
12/8/1998 $5,000.00
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
URBAN OUTFITTERS -
FIGHT-PAC

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. but how much did he contribute to dems?

Though I doubt it would be very high, I'd rather not condemn the guy until we look at the other side of the scale. Then I'll condemn him!

Besides, people shouild be buying Land's End.

[Heddi]

2. oooh I love Lands End

their slip-on clogs are sooooo comfy, last FOR-EV-ER, and are incredibly inexpensive!

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. and they support Prairie Home Companion!

And they're in God's country - Wisconsin!