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coeur_de_lion

(3,676 posts)
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 10:19 PM Oct 2013

Want To Boycott Koch Brothers' Products While Shopping? There's An App For That

There’s a good chance billionaire industrialists and liberal whipping boys Charles and David Koch are making money off your weekly shopping cart.

If you’ve ever bought Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper or Dixie cups, you’ve contributed cash to Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries .

If you’ve purchased a pair of yoga pants containing Lycra or a Stainmaster carpet, you’ve indirectly handed the Kochs your money: Koch Industries bought Invista, the world’s largest fiber and textiles company, in 2004 from DuPont.

You didn’t know that, did you? Neither did Darcy Burner, a Democrat running for Washington state’s 1st Congressional District seat — but once she learned how many household products are manufactured by the conservative billionaires’ companies, she decided to take action.

“Our democracy has been bought and sold by people like the Kochs,” Burner said, citing the Citizens United ruling that allows tax exempt nonprofits like Americans for Prosperity, founded by David Koch, to donate anonymously in unlimited amounts to candidates and causes. “When I’m out talking to voters, they say they want a way to take action.”

more . . .
http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2012/06/18/microsoft-programmer-turned-democrat-politician-plans-anti-koch-brothers-smartphone-app/

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Want To Boycott Koch Brothers' Products While Shopping? There's An App For That (Original Post) coeur_de_lion Oct 2013 OP
k&r Vinnie From Indy Oct 2013 #1
K&R. pacalo Oct 2013 #2
thx samsingh Oct 2013 #3
I already do.. without an app.. Go anti-teaKoch apps! Cha Oct 2013 #4
And, Happy Birthday to John Lennon.. it's still the 9th in Cha Oct 2013 #5
I wouldn't purchase yoga pants containing Lycra or a Stainmaster carpet marzipanni Oct 2013 #6

marzipanni

(6,011 posts)
6. I wouldn't purchase yoga pants containing Lycra or a Stainmaster carpet
Thu Oct 10, 2013, 03:04 AM
Oct 2013

But if the pants contained a carpet the Lycra would certainly be necessary.

I'd appreciate that app. if I had a smart phone.

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