I read several months (years?) ago that Lewis is a big admirer of Mao, so much so that he has a big portrait of Mao in his office.
As for 527s, it seems MoveOn has found this to be a an attractive tool and has started one of their own, toting in an email something to the effect of "Donate as much as you want...the skies the limit!"
I read several months (years?) ago that Lewis is a big admirer of Mao, so much so that he has a big portrait of Mao in his office.
From the
June 1987 issue of "Cleveland Magazine" ...
Lewis once brought a series of Andy Warhol's famous Mao Tse-tung silkscreens to the Progressive offices on Wilson Mills Road. He left them in the lobby and dashed off on a business trip. The subject of the portraits so distressed his employees that they petitioned him to remove the prints from the premises, which he did (placing them in the billiard room of his Beachwood penthouse). The incident was so unusual that it has become a case study in employee relations that is taught in business schools around the country.