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- From: smezias@option.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: L. L. Bean allows anti-choice candidate to use company property
- Message-ID: <28519@option.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 00:17:10 GMT
- References: <28503@option.GBA.NYU.EDU> <65918@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
- Lines: 32
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- In article <65918@hydra.gatech.EDU> rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard
- Pitts) writes:
-
- >Are these people related?
-
- Obviously. I didn't mention it explicitly because it is so obvious
- and completely irrelevant.
-
- >>stitching factory to be precise, to film a television commercial for
- >>her campaign. She is adamantly anti-choice, as well as anti-gay
- >>rights legislation and anti-gun control. I verified all of this by
- >>calling L. L. Bean, (800) 341-4341, myself. I also informed them that
- >>I would not longer purchase their products. I urge all pro-choice
- >>persons to do the same.
- >
- >If Linda is a family member, I doubt you will gain much by calling.
-
- Judging by the quickness with which Bean has pointed out that it makes
- not contribution to political campaigns and the amount of time that
- the PR person spent speaking to me, I think you are wrong.
-
- >Most people who have taken the Pro-Life side have decided that it
- >is not a financial issue, but a moral issue. So one's decision to
- >not buy from them would not be seen as a great loss and possibly
- >be seen as gain.
-
- Odd that you would think any business gains by losing customers. They
- certainly don't see it that way, as you would know if you had followed
- the coverage in the NY Times from which I gleaned the original
- information.
-
- SJM
-