{"id":9446,"date":"2012-11-03T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T19:15:05","slug":"corporate-political-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/corporate-political-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Donations by Corporations Where You Eat, Drink, Shop and Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In case you want to know where to spend, or not to spend for the political ideals you support, here are Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics. Shown in the photo is the beautiful Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa<\/a>, a four diamond beach hotel in California.<\/p>\n

AMERICANS CAN CONSIDER WHERE TO SHOP AND SPEND THEIR MONEY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hotels<\/strong>
\nHyatt Corporation donated $187K of which 80% went to Democrats
\nMarriott International $323K, 81% went to Republicans
\nHoliday Inns donated $38K, 71% went to Republicans<\/p>\n

Shopping<\/strong>
\nPrice Club\/Costco donated $225K, 99% went to Democrats
\nRite Aid donated $517K, 60% went to Democrats
\nMagla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean) donated $22K, 100% went to Democrats
\nWarnaco (undergarments) donated $55K, 73% went to Democrats
\nMartha Stewart Living Omnimedia donated $153K, 99% went to Democrats
\nEstee Lauder donated $448K, 95% went to Democrats
\nGuess, Inc. Donated $145K, 98% went to Democrats
\nCalvin Klein donated $78K, 100% went to Democrats
\nLiz Claiborne, Inc. Donated $34K, 97% went to Democrats
\nLevi Straus donated $26K, 97% went to Democrats
\nOlan Mills donated $175K, 99% went to Democrats
\nWalMart donated $467K, 97% went to Republicans
\nK-Mart donated $524K, 86% went to Republicans
\nHome Depot donated $298K, 89% went to Republicans
\nTarget donated $226K, 70% went to Republicans
\nCircuit City Stores donated $261K, 95% went to Republicans
\n3M Co. Donated $281K, 87% went to Republicans
\nHallmark Cards donated $319K, 92% went to Republicans
\nAmway donated $391K, 100% Republicans
\nKohler Co. (plumbing fixtures) donated $283K, 100% Republicans
\nB.F. Goodrich (tires) donated $215K, 97% went to Republicans
\nProctor & Gamble donated $243K, 79% went to Republicans
\nSpirits<\/strong>
\nSouthern Wine & Spirits donated $213K, 73% went to Democrats
\nJoseph E. Seagrams & Sons (incl. Beverage Business and considerable media interests) donated $2M+, 67% went to Democrats
\nGallo Winery donated $337K, 95% went to Democrats
\nCoors & Budweiser donated $174K, 92% went to Republicans
\nBrown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel Wines, Lenox China , Dansk and Gorham Silver) donated $644 K — 80% went to Republicans<\/p>\n

Food<\/strong>
\nSonic Corporation donated $83K, 98% went to Democrats
\nTriarc Companies (Arby’s, T.J. Cinnamon’s, Pasta Connections) donated $112K, 96% went to Democrats
\nPilgrim’s Pride Corp. (chicken) donated $366K, 100% went to Republicans
\nOutback Steakhouse donated $641K, 95% went to Republicans
\nTricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) donated $133K, 87% went to Republicans
\nBrinker International (Maggiano’s, Brinker Cafe, Chili’s, On the Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel’s, Corner Baker, EatZis) donated $242K, 83% went to Republicans
\nWaffle House donated $279K, 100% went to Republicans
\nMcDonald’s Corp. Donated $197K, 86% went to Republicans
\nDarden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze) donated $121K, 89% went to Republicans
\nHeinz Republicans $64,000 Democrats $21,300<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In case you want to know where to spend, or not to spend for the political ideals you support, here are Election Cycle political donations, as reported by the Center for Responsive Politics. Shown in the photo is the beautiful Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa, a four diamond beach hotel in California. AMERICANS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}