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December 19, 2004
BUY BLUE
I think this is a great idea -- I first saw it on Eden's site, so anyway..., and I am glad she pointed it out.
Fellow blue staters (and expat blue citizens who find themselves living in the Red Sea), someone's put together a buying guide for us. Want to feel better about spending your money? Want to make sure you're not giving money to red corporations and businesses? Want to be sure to reward companies on the blue side of the house? Then here's your list of who's been naughty and who's been nice: Buy Blue.
This is a good list to have handy -- and I feel kind of good in that many of the companies I already patronize are wearing the white hats. For example, I fly JetBlue frequently -- almost exclusively when on personal travel. I'm a Starbucks junkie. Guiness, Smirnoff, and Captain Morgan get a lot of my money already, as do Barnes and Noble and J. Crew. I'll need to start staying at Hyatts whenever possible, and avoid Marriotts when I can. Target shocks me -- as a good old Minnesota company with ties to the Dayton-Hudson corporation (whose scion Mark Dayton is a Senator from Minnesota), I would have expected better from them.
Sadly, Victoria's Secret appears to be in the red column. I may have a good cry about that one.
Anyway -- between "Buy Blue" and "Choose The Blue" (found here), here's a few ways you can start to vote with your wallet as well as your ballot.
