Please write to Johnson & Johnson about this usage of the Purple Heart

[eleny]

Someone posted in this DU thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=702961&mesg_id=702961&page=

They posted a link to this anti Kerry freeper site with a graphic using a Band-Aid box obviously using a Johnson & Johnson packaging.
http://www.sacredcowburgers.com/leftovers/showpics.cgi?kerrys_first_aid_kit

So, I wrote to the Johnson & Johnson Board of Directors via the corporate web site.
http://www.jnj.com/investor/corp_gov_form_board.htm

Here is my note to the Board:
"The following web site is using your Band-Aid packaging and The Purple Heart for a political purpose. http://www.sacredcowburgers.com/leftovers/showpics.cgi?kerrys_first_aid_kit

If your company approves of this usage, please advise. As the daughter in law of a World War II veteran and a registered member of the Democratic Party I am insulted. Please let me know if you approve of this usage as it will affect my decision to buy your products."

[jean]

1. send them fast and furious because I just notified the trademark dept

at J&J and they were shocked

see this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=703293&mesg_id=703293

[eleny]

2. I read your thread!

You did good work. I couldn't find that at the J&J site but found the Board contact. Let's flood them! Thanks!

[jean]

4. it took forever to get a number - the site sucked, had no info other

than an email form.

I called information and got some company that has information numbers for a constellation of j&j companies. There I spoke to an operator who thought she gave me the right number - but it was a dead end (you had to have a special access code to get through).

So I went back to that operator and asked for the legal department. That led directly to j&j legal, who sent me to j&j trademark dept. All the people in these two dept's were extremely efficient and helpful.

[sundancekid]

3. DONE ... as a citizen, a stockholder, and part of a vet family ...

thank you so very much for all your impressive work ... we thought we knew the depths to which the repugs would stoop, but this mockery (last straw) sent our family right over the edge ...
BTW, if you google Pat Peale, the bandaid gate lady from Texas identified by Reuters, you will find she has connections to Karl Rove ... I posted this link in another thread too:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/cvn_purple_heart_bandages
and
http://www.gainesvilleregister.com/articles/2004/08/26/news/news1.txt

[jean]

6. thinking about it...they want to own our flag and now with this lame

purple heart bandage, they're co-opting another, albeit less powerful, national icon - the ubiquitous Band Aid.

[Myrina]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=703293&mesg_id=703293

[Eurobabe]

7. Contact J&J Band-Aid Division directly here

http://www.band-aid.com/contact_us.jsp

OR tel. 1-866-JNJ-2873 from 8-5 EST, Monday through Friday

Bitch long and loud.

J&J does NOT want to be associated with this. Believe me, I have a friend who works in corporate crisis management.

[seabeyond]

8. done......n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. done! n/t