Gap Clothing Chain Founders Were Behind California 'Dark Money' Campaign
Source: Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Well-known corporate chiefs funded illegal "dark money" contributions to groups in the Koch brothers' political network involved in Thursday's record campaign finance settlement in California, according to settlement documents.
Members of the Fisher family, founders of the Gap clothing chain, plowed more than $8 million into the dark money campaign to defeat Gov. Jerry Brown's tax increase, Proposition 30, and to support the anti-union Proposition 32, in the 2012 elections, according to partially redacted documents supplied by Americans for Job Security, a group that handled contributions that figured in Thursday's settlement.
Those documents also show that Charles Schwab, founder of Charles Schwab Corp., donated $6.4 million through Americans for Job Security. Philanthropist Eli Broad, who publicly backed Brown's tax increase proposition, made a $500,000 contribution, according to the documents. Las Vegas Sands Corp. CEO Sheldon Adelson and his wife gave a combined $500,000. Crossroads GPS, the dark money nonprofit founded by Karl Rove, chipped in $2 million
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Well, well....this could get interesting
applegrove
(118,711 posts)canuckledragger
(1,644 posts)for their overpriced shit anyway.
This just gives me another reason not to.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Are these bozos still majority stock holders?
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Major Direct Holders (Forms 3 & 4)
Holder Shares Reported
FISHER ROBERT J 9,438,096 Jun 30, 2013
FISHER WILLIAM SYDNEY 8,507,527 Jun 30, 2013
FISHER JOHN J N/A May 30, 2013
MURPHY GLENN 67,926 Aug 20, 2013
SUNNUCKS STEPHEN 145,076 May 30, 2013
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=gps+Major+Holders
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)Hit them in the wallet! It's the ONLY thing that they listen to.
yuiyoshida
(41,833 posts)As of today, the GAP is crap.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Sucks. Boycott!
slor
(5,504 posts)Oh well, time for something different.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Also, urban outfitters is another anti-American repig-owned, supporting company.
Screw them all.
applegrove
(118,711 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)Banana Republic
Old Navy
Fitting names when you look at the tags and see where the clothing was made. Sweatshops in some Banana Republic. Clothing and accessories that get shipped overseas on their "old navy" shipping vessels.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Over...them.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Gosh, who would have expected that?
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)I'll put him on my list of "assholes of the Republican party to learn about"
Thanks for the heads up
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)CA has a strain of corporate anti-union Dems. Interesting to me is that he was publicly saying one thing, but privately funneling money to this. Hopefully some of the Democratic leadership who pal around with him take note.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)In the South there were starting to be moderate Republicans who were closely aligned with moderate Democrats. Once the right wing push started, well you know what happened. I think in those states, people will join the majority party to win and then push their own agenda. He certainly seems like one of those.
justice1
(795 posts)I always hated the idea of buying kids clothes,that were made by kids. I used to sarcastically say, how the children making the clothes at Old Navy, just didn't take pride in their work. It was generally lost on people.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Ha!
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)factories. List is here.
No GAP for me.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Does anyone shop there anyway ?
ReRe
(10,597 posts)Have never stepped one foot into any of their sweat-shop stores in my life. Money launderers for the Koch's and Tea Partiers...