Democrats Boycott Coca-Cola Co. For Supporting Conservative Policy

April 6, 2012 by Bryan Nash

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Coca-Cola Co. will no longer give money to conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council due to the threat of boycott.

Coca-Cola Co. will no longer financially support the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group that promotes voter ID and “stand your ground” laws.

Democratic officials as well as the website ColorOfChange.org were making plans to blackball the maker of America’s favorite beverage because of the company’s support of ALEC.

The movement began when ColorOfChange.org tweeted: “@CocaCola is helping undermine voting rights. Tell them to stop.”

In an attempt to avoid bad publicity, Coca-Cola Co. decided to withdraw its support from ALEC.

ColorOfChange.org applauded the corporation. A statement on the website read:

We learned today that Coca-Cola has ended its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Coke dropping ALEC is a major victory for all who are concerned about efforts to suppress the Black vote. It’s also a victory for the many who are critical of the Kill at Will law that Trayvon Martin’s killer is using as his defense.

But Coca-Cola Co.’s withdrawal may not have been the best strategy. The move has some conservatives opting for Pepsi.

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CaptTurbo

If Coke is so easily bullied by liberal trash, they are getting what they deserve. Grow a pair Coke! You were doing the right thing but I guess your sense of right and wrong isn’t your strongest virtue.
Liz

Coca Cola is now on my Boycot list, along with everyone I can convence to do the same.

James

That’ll be easy for me, I never liked Coca-Cola anyway.

Rick in MN (USAF/ret)

I just realized last night that this personal boycott by myself is going to be a real dilemma for me. I have a strict personal rule about drinking alcohol if I’m going to be out riding on the bike. So anytime I stop at a bar or restaurant that serves alcohol I would normally order a coke. Last night I was out for a ride and stopped at a Buffalo Wild Wings and out of habit I ordered a coke (not even thinking) and didn’t realize it until I got home. Needless to say, 1. I will have to be extra mindful not to order cokes when eating out, etc. and, 2. what do I chose for a beverage now? I don’t do Pepsi products and now I won’t do Coke products so what’s left at a bar/restaurant unless they serve coffee. A dilemma indeed.

angelwannabe

Geez_ WHO KNEW, the Dems Boycotting a Conservative leaning Business__Wah, Wah, Wah, I’ll Take my dollies and go home if I dont get my own way__Get Stuffed, ya bunch of cry babies!_
JDL

‘It’s also a victory for the many who are critical of the Kill at Will law that Trayvon Martin’s killer is using as his defense.’

Talk about a spin! I am so sorry that the author wasn’t in New Orleans after Katrina, you know, like when the criminals were simply following the fed . marshals around the neighborhood bookmarking those who were now unarmed and then returned to same night to burglarize them. Maybe a tiny amount of first hand experience would temper his BS spins.

James

People keep misstating what the law allows and the Martin-Zimmerman case is not about the Stand Your Ground Law………the media has consistently described the laws incorrectly. The “Stand Your Ground” or “Castle Doctrine” laws replaced the original requirement to retreat with a “reasonable person” standard, that a reasonable person would believe that a criminal intends to inflict serious bodily harm or death. For example, you can’t shoot a fleeing criminal in the back. You can’t provoke the attacker into attacking. You can’t use unnecessary force to stop the attack. Anyone who thinks that the law lets them “shoot first, ask questions later” will end up jail.
The Washington Post’s description is almost laughable, claiming the law “immunizes an individual from criminal charges if he asserts he had a ‘reasonable’ fear of grave harm.” It isn’t that the individual firing the gun who gets to say that he had a “reasonable” fear. Ultimately, a judge or jurors get to decide if the fear was reasonable.

2WarAbnVet

So Coke caves to lib/’socialist blackmail. Why am I not surprised?

eddie47d

It could be that Coke did the right thing and didn’t give in to Corporate sponsered blackmail from ALEC. There is hope from some companies.

Vigilant

“Blackmail?” What the hell are you talking about?

Specifics of blackmail, please.

B.K.

I am so sick of this BS the liberals are pushing. In what sphere of reality does it remove anyone’s right, black, Hispanic or white, to vote just because you have to show proof that you are in fact a legal citizen of this country? How is it that this has become a legitimate argument? They cry for “social justice” which is not justice at all. It’s let me have my way because I have skin that is different that you. What we should be saying is where is the equal justice for everyone. It doesn’t restrict anyone who has a legal right to vote in this country to prove they have that right. It also keeps people from voting more than once. This is the most decisive and corrupt administration that we have had in my memory. They need to go and the people who are pushing so much hate and division need to have something done to stop them. People need to stop listening to them and looking at what is happening because of them. We have been set back 40 years in race relations just in the past three years. When I was in school race wasn’t an issue and even 20 years ago when I had black men as my managers in a couple of jobs. Wonderful men who told me race was never and issue to them, Why can’t people wake up and see the real motive of these people. They don’t want racism to stop, they would be of no consequence then. If we all looked at one another the same the Sharpton’s, the Jackson’s and the Panther’s of this world would have nothing to whine about and they would have to find a real job.

http://www.ifonlyphotos.com Alex Frazier

The real fear I have with the REAL voter ID is that it is far too reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, where citizens had to have their “papers.” People without them would end up being arrested.

If the REAL ID is used for voting, and ONLY for voting, I have no problem with it whatsoever. As many others have pointed out, we have to show ID to drive a car, buy alcohol or cigarettes, get a tattoo, etc. No black has ever felt the need to cry racism because they were forced to have a State issued identification card to buy a blunt.

It’s obvious to anyone with a brain that the REAL ID is not a hindrance to minorities voting. It’s a stop gap on voter fraud.

Except for the danger of the REAL ID furthering the cause of socialism, I’m otherwise 100% for it.

Rick in MN (USAF/ret)

You know Alex, I’m having a real problem following your logic here. The Voter ID law would simply require a voter to verify his/her identity with a photo and would allow the election judges to request said I.D. which, currently, in some states such as mine we are not allowed to do under the law. The law would further make accommodations for those who do not have a photo I.D. such as a drivers license to be able to obtain a reasonable facsimile through their local Dept. of Motor Vehicles. I fail to see how this equates to, as you put it, some socialist identification program reminiscent of Nazi Germany or Russia when it was the U.S.S.R.

William Amann

If you can still buy Coke products with food stamps, the liberal boycott won`t work!!
Doug

Lets hope all the Demorats, Communist and Marxist and Socialist drinks as much coke and pepsi has they can handle hell give it to them for free! Thats one way to make sure they don’t live long healthly life you be better off drinking rat poison then any type of soda that has oorn syrup or Aspertaine have at it! Al I almost forgot Eddie and Flushy make sure you drinks at least 10 servings a day it bring out the liberal in you even more!

dufas magnet

My Gawd! You people are so gullible.. You slam Dems, giving everybody the impression that once your crunch buddies get into office everything will be honky-dory.. That their the answer to all America’s problems.. Well what about those tea sippers who in 2010 said, “vote us in and we’ll produce jobs, jobs, jobs!!” (where are they?) and 2000 – 2008, what about THAT ‘Kick start toward the abyss’..? OH, I forgot.. That’s past history and you’re talking future.. So, has ANYBODY noticed if the Pubs you value so high has changed since Bush? All those who believe this political crap, hold up your check book.. Bottom line here is, their ALL power hungry money grubbing slime and we just keep playing merry-go-round with them.. (when are we gonna learn?).. Now that the Trayvon Martin buzz is beginning to lose it’s luster, they’ve decided to give us soda pop in order to take our minds off the pathetic bills their passing on us behind closed doors.. B’ness as usual.

Rick in MN (USAF/ret)

The reason the Tea Party candidates haven’t been able to make headway where jobs are concerned is because we failed to take control of the Senate too. Reid has done everything he can to stonewall and hinder any legislation that goes against his annointed one’s agenda of Socialism. It’s part of the “checks and balances” system this country was founded upon. Unfortunately, sometimes that system can still bite us in the A## but it’s still the best system there is.

Rick in MN (USAF/ret)

Coca-Cola and Pepsi products. The new “Kool-Aid”.

jopa

hooder;You may find it awful painful when you try to sit down.However I believe in freedom of choice so you just stick that bottle wherever you want.
rePete

Bye bye (among others): Coke, Pepsi & Homo Depot.
Dave

I think it is a bad move to give in to these threats to boycott your company. I would prefer that the company stand its ground and not be intimitated by thugs. This has nothing to do with suppressing the voting rights of blacks, whites, spanish or any other ethnic group. It has to do with being able to commit voter fraud at the polls. We all know that you can’t buy cigarettes, alcohol or cold medicine without showing an ID! Try to rent a car or buy a plane ticket without one. Think People! Drink Coke not Kool-ade.

http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

Coke might be worse for you than Kool-Aid. It’s full of high fructose corn syrup, which contains mercury, a known neuro-toxin that causes permanent brain damage. Where did you think all the Obama supporters came from??

http://dlee4144.wordpress.com dlee4144

How did you manage to overlook the fact that Coke was a few days behind Pepsi in making this move? They both said they just want to sell soda, and not get involved in politics.
hooder

Stick coke where the sun don’t shine! The spineless execs have been bullied into the corrupt Obama’s administration way of thinking. They want a total dictatorship and are on their way to get one. Pour the coke out and drink water or beer or anything not connected to coke. And get rid of Obama and all of his corrupt cohorts and czars and fellow idiots!
dan

Don’t drink ANY of that suger-water crap….first it rots your teeth and then it rots your brain. I believe Coke has been a long time sponsor of Planned Parenthood…the baby killing corp. but then so has Ford and who knows who else….I’d say drink water but the
FDA has been allowing them to dump fluoride into it ,sigh

http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

Well, there’s water in Coke, isn’t there? Wanna take bets on whether it’s fluoridated?

Seriously, though. If you have no choice but to drink city water, get a filter. You’ll need it for more than the fluoride.

http://AT&T RHESA COOK

NO MORE COKE FOR ME. MY FRIG WILL BE FULL OF ANY OTHER BRAND THAT
SUPPORTS THE AMERICA WAY. THANK GOODNESS WE HAVE E-MAIL SITES THAT YOU CAN GET INFO FROM THAT TELLS YOU WHAT IS GOING ON.”TRUTH OR FICTION” IS GREAT FOR TRUTHFULLNESS. “COKE CAN GO TO THE DIRTY DOGS”
THE DEMOCRAPS.
http://yahoo camdenme12

Businesses intimitated by these socialist organizations are weak!!! We need to rise up against these liberal groups and squash them like a grape!! Coke taste terrible anyways.
Robert Peterson

Quit buying coke stuff. Don’t let your kids drink their slop either. Its amazing that anyone can vote without showing an I.D. The democrat party should be re-named the party of commie-pinko-bed-wetting-socialists. They don’t care about the real Americans in this country. Power is what they are after.

eddie47d

ALEC has sponsered many state bills and are a major lobbying group on several issues themselves. They encourage more Corporate influence in the voting booth not less. They are deeply involved in social issues also such as the vaginal ultrasound bill that failed in Virginia,Texas and Pennsylvania. They are another arm of the Chamber of Commerce and Citizens United. These groups also tell you how to vote and who to vote against and the individual voter won’t be relevant anymore with their tactics. The Republicans also have their arm candy (ALEC) to help suade Legislators.
Robert Smith

Hey Robert, you posted: “Its amazing that anyone can vote without showing an I.D.”

Used to be the right wing was opposed to voter ID. Remember that old 666 garbage?

What has motivated them to change?

Rob

angelwannabe

Robbie__”Used to be the right wing was opposed to voter ID. Remember that old 666 garbage?

What has motivated them to change?

ANSWER___DEAD PEOPLE VOTING & THE LIBERALS RIGGIN THE ELECTIONS!
ANYMORE BRILLIANT QIESTIONS_ROBBIE?
BunRoe

Probably to spite the opposition. Certainly not as an advocate for the people as politicians of all color and platform are incapable of humanity. Just another ploy that the opposition beat them to so, why not stir some $hit..
Robert Smith

Angel asks: “What has motivated them to change? ”

Rush Limbaugh tolld ‘em to.

Rob

B. Holmes

Coke never has been good for you…or good. It sure is easy to select something else.

http://Aol CommonSense4America

Beer. It’s proof that God wants you to be happy.

Robert Smith

And in years gone by a way to drink something without it being contamnated.

Most of history was created by guys with a buzz on.

Rob

Cynicalc

Gave up Arby’s so I won’t need coke.
ZED

It is truely astounding that the democrats realize they cannot win an election but by dubious means. They need all of the illegals and of course their ACORN minions to vote illegally and often repeatedly by voting in the place of the dead. Every democrat county clerk in this country is suspect becasue they have direct access to the registered voter lists. They use these lists to get democrat operatives to vote in the place of people that have passed on. True Scumbaggery at work. This is why they oppose the voter ID laws. With these laws in place they will not be able to steal another election like 2008…the result of which is that we now have a marxist sub-human, his orangutan ‘ho and their picaninnies in our WHITE House. We need to remove these swine and fumigate the place to get the stench of sub-human out before we put a good and respectable American and his family in it.

jeanne jones

As big a company as Coke is I can’t believe they believe the tactics the liberals are using. I love coke but I’ll stick with water until the liberals figure a way to scare the water companies. They should have the freedom to support whatever they want not having to stoop as low as the liberals are forcing them to.

Robert Smith

My water at home is municipal.

Aren’t most places that way if folks aren’t on wells?

Glad to see you supporting your local government.

Rob
angelwannabe

ROBBIE,__”Glad to see you supporting your local government.

You get a cut of that loot too don’t ya robbie, after all it is payday on shill island?

http://dlee4144.wordpress.com dlee4144

I sure hope you aren’t on your local neighborhood watch team.
Thinking About

I will also suspect the republican voter register of fraud since I am receiving political mail for my step son who passed away in 1988 and had never registered to vote. Have a feeling this son has been “voting” in several elections in the past few years. The game works both ways. After Florida in 2000 I see how boxes are stuffed.

http://folkartist.wordpress.com Libertytrain

My son used to get tons of high end political stuff – and he was just a young kid. But his name is the same as a certain prominent business exec – Not in the same city – but the same name so am guessing it’s not all that unusual if someone found an address to match a name – voter or not.

Michael Keith

Well I won’t be drinking Coke anymore.

Donald York

Madness, madness I say!

Adollarsworkapeenyspay

And don’t tell me that Dr. Pepper supports……?…..? (post lib protest here).. Don’t matter! I’ll drink it anyway.. C’mon Leroy, let’s go home.

JimH

Pepsi, please.
Paul

Great move Coke, and Pepsi. Hope more firms join you.
Vicki

Just remember we can tweet to conservatives about telling companies to stop supporting liberal causes too.

wandamurline

Since I read an article that Pepsi uses stem cell technology to enhance their taste, I already buy Coke products….since Coke cut off the Demorat liberal progressive socialists/marxists, I will double my purchases in an attempt to make up the difference that they will lose on the liberal side. Everyone pitch in.

http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

That made no sense. Coke didn’t cut off the liberals, they bowed to them and quit their membership in a conservative organization.
Robert Smith

Enjoy all that high fructose corn serup in Coke. Looks to me like suicide by big business.

I’ve been told that rum can reduce the effects. I’ll research that one personally.

Cuba Libre!!!!!!!!!!!

Rob

carrobin

Are voting rights a liberal cause? I’m glad I’m a liberal.

http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

That was myopic.
oh oh

Voting rights are an American cause and Americans should support sensible solutions to protect their voting rights from being diluted by the fraudulent acts of others, whether American or not.
http://naver samurai

Because they support voter ID they are considered bad to you Carrobin? What’s wrong with making sure that only Americans vote? Just like a stupid lib to not care who votes. This is how many libs get votes by having illegals vote. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!
Robert Smith

Hey samurai!

I was supporting voter ID 30 years ago when the right wing religious nuts were opposing it.

666

Rob
Fossil

Robert Smith…..would you rather have right wing religious nuts or left wing radical Saul Arlinsky nuts. Trust me , you don’t want the Arlinky nuts. Do your home work.
http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

Robert Smith, the question is Are you STILL supporting it, or have you flip-flopped now that the religious nuts have stopped opposing it?
Robert Smith

Some are worried about Saul Arlinsky.

I don’t worry about him. As an individual he’s just another Jewish guy who worked to end poverty and oppression.

Where have I heard about that before?

Rob
Fossil

Robert Smith…..wrong again! Arlinsky was all about deception and the easiest ones to influence are the poor and uneducated. It’s all about destroying capitalism, the haves and the have nots. Sound familiar! You didn’t read far enough.
Robert Smith

Do you mean like the Republican Southern strategy cooked up by Nixon? Toss in religious interests, like Nixon pandering the the catholic anti-abortion efforts (yup, it’s a political issue for the right wing and has absolutely nothing to do with “babies”) and wow do they lead the religious folks to the right.

The Republican Party strategy of winning elections in Southern states by exploiting anti-African American racism and fears of lawlessness among Southern white voters and appealing to fears of growing federal power in social and economic matters (generally lumped under the concept of states’ rights) is real. So much of it can be seen around this forum.

How does it feel being led around by the nose TODAY, not 50 years ago when the guy you are yammering about was alive?

Rob
Fossil

Robert Smith….here you go again. What about the way the democrats (socialist party) lead around the sheeple minority groups? Man do they drink the cool aid.
http://teamlaw.org Jazzabelle

Hmmm…Robnert Smith STILL won’t tell us whether he supports Voter ID or not.

Sirian

Ah, such reminisced similarities to Germany, 1930’s.

joe1cr

I see Jessie Jackson old tried and true black boycotts and his shakedowns of business expanding to the liberal democrat party.
After all ,that work with Budweiser getting his sons one of their distributorships and his shakedowns of companies making him rich.
Can Coke Cola distributorships be far off for Obama liberal socialist cronies in the government ?

Robert Smith

Remiinds me of the American Family Association boycotting Ford.

Then there are One Million Moms is threatening to boycott Toys”R”Us for selling an Archie comic featuring a same-sex marriage.

Oh my… The Right-wing Boycott of Thin Mints is real. They don’t like the Girl Scouts.

Ohhhhhhhhh, and the American Family Association is boycotting Home Depot and Old Navy. Gosh that right wing bunch is just-a-boycotting all over the place.

Here’s another bunch agains the Girl Scouts: ” Today on his daily radio bulletin, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins urged listeners to boycott Girl Scout cookies.”

Those darn girl scouts.

Even Google hasn’t been left alone: “Randy Thomasson of the right-wing group Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) has called for a boycott of Google for its opposition to Proposition 8″

Now, what was that boycott from the left?

Oh yes, Coke. I tried snorting it once and got the bottlecap stuck in my nose.

Rob
angelwannabe

Robbie, Robbie, __Googling for opposing articles_getting 0.5 second answers, copy and paste. Hmmm_Makes the user “Look” intelligent……=P
http://naver samurai

Just another chance to spin something, eh Rob? So any group that supports the traditional family, morals, ethics, protecting children, the Constitution, and our Christian family is automatically right wing? If this is true, then the right is on the right side with God.

“”The wise man keeps his heart in his right hand. The fool keeps it iin his left.”

Ecclesiastics 10:2

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY!
Robert Smith

From angel: “Googling for opposing articles…”

Yup, clearly demonstrating how much the right wing uses boycots.

The hypocrisy of pointing out ONE boycot from the left and then watching all those religious nuts claiming they can stand their holy ground and force their version of “morality” on the rest of us by not buying girl scout cookies…

Sheesh.

Rob

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