Kraft Foods, Inc. has become the third corporate titan to abandon a conservative group that supports the type of “Stand Your Ground” gun law at the center of the Trayvon Martin controversy in Florida.
Kraft — one of many corporation members of the American Legislative Exchange Council — won’t renew its membership when it expires this spring, Kraft Corporate Affairs Director Susan Davison told POLITICO.
The company’s decision comes after Coca-Cola on Wednesday announced plans to end its membership in the free-market group. PepsiCo has also said it would not renew its membership, NPR reported Thursday.
The companies began dropping their memberships after the black advocacy group Color of Change launched an online campaign calling on Coca-Cola to end its support.
Color of Change has been pressuring corporate sponsors to terminate their memberships with ALEC since last year. Until recently, the campaign was focused on ALEC’s support for voter identification laws. At the end of last year, Pepsi was the first group to notify Color of Change that it wouldn’t be renewing its sponsorship.
Read More at Politico. By Robin Bravender.
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It is amazing how quickly people and major corporations are willing to back down if there is even the slightest hint of non political correctness IE OOOOeee Racism!!! How are we supposed to have a forum to discuss issues if it’s always the “well, it’s my ball and if we don’t play by my rules then I’m taking it home so nobody can play!” There is nothing wrong with both sides of an issue being discussed so to be able to make an informed decision, right or wrong depending upon your point of view.
Two can play this game so it’s fine with me as there are other cheese makers and soda companies I can buy from.
Tit for tat.
Well, other believers are welcome to band together and convince the companies that it will be worse if they bail out.
Who’s up for this?
I don’t respect any company that does not stick by their original agenda. I don’t like the policies of a lot of companies but I respect their stance on issues they feel strongly about. However, I wish companies would follow the dictate of most of their customers. In fact, I don’t think companies should take a social issue on as there only business is to offer the best service possible at the lowest price to their consumers.
Unfortunately, I am with Kraft on this one. Stand Your Ground has to be one of the stupidest laws I’ve ever heard of! If I’m walking down the street, & see a Muslim dressed in their traditional dress, & pullout a gun, & shoot them, I can get away with it because I thought they were a threat to me? That they MIGHT be a suicide bomber? Or I shoot a gay person because I thought they gave me a ‘dangerous’ look, I can get away with it? There are times a person needs to defend themselves, but if a person has not directly threatened you, or broken into your home, or jumped in your car, there is NO reason to try to take that person’s life, simply because you don’t like the looks of that person. And, because of all the controversy stirred up over this particular case in Florida, several other states are considering passing a similar law. What’s next? The National Guard going to start going around shooting conservatives because we ‘are’ a threat to Obama’s agenda? And, usually, the only time people want businesses or other people to remain neutral is only when it goes against their beliefs.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. There is no law that protects someone for shooting someone because of their looks. Uneducated and uninformed people like you are dangerous! Are you sure your head didn’t slip up obama’s ass, and lodge some crap between your ears, because you sound like just another dopey liberal puke!
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I dropped them a line telling them I will no longer buy Kraft products
I think every company should remain neutral in social issues as they are going to offend about half of the population, one way or the other. However, I have been hearing companies spout off for quite some time about the gay agenda and am proud of Mr. Cathy for being the first to stand on the other side.