The Shakedown: Corporations That Sponsor Sharpton’s National Action Network Convention

nat review ^ | 4/17/15 | Jillian Kay Melchior

[bestintxas]

Despite questions of the Rev’s financial irregularities and allegations of shakedowns, they support him. Several big corporations sponsored the annual convention last week for National Action Network, Al Sharpton’s in-the-red nonprofit, according to a list obtained by National Review. Sponsors included AT&T, Viacom, Walmart, Perennial Strategy Group, Combs Enterprises, Comcast Corporation, McDonald’s, Ronald Perelman, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Forest City Ratner, Time Warner Cable, Barney’s, Coca-Cola, Essence Communications, Ford Division, Home Depot, Crystal McCrary and Raymond J. McGuire, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the NBA, Verizon, Colgate Palmolive, Macy’s, NASCAR, OraSure Technologies Inc., Best Buy, Greentrack Inc., the IM Foundation, Con Edison, and Entergy. Most of the sponsors in this list failed to respond or declined when NR sent inquiries regarding their sponsorship and whether it could be considered an endorsement of National Action Network.

[bestintxas]

The con has been doing this since his old Tawana Brawley days.

[Don Corleone]

The shake down racket "Protection" is as old as Sicily.

DC

[amnestynone]

These corporations also funds things like Podesta’s Citizens Alliance for Progress. They are also supporters of amnesty. Another Drudge link says the GOP (country clubbers) are giving up stopping Obama care. Do I need to mention the mainstream corporate media? We have long supported big Business in everything they do. This needs to stop. We need to show them we will not be taken for granted and stop supporting ANYTHING that they want and we also need to start supporting higher taxes on them. They sell out they shell out. Get where it hurts.

[Aleya2Fairlie]

The only thing that’s going to save us from having every right we have left trampled by big money and big business is for a huge majority of people to give up what big business offers. The one and only way to bring them to a standstill in their power over us is to stop funding them with our money.

That said, I really don’t see that many people being willing to give up their TV, their Wally World, their communication technology, etc. for a principle that most of them don’t even understand thanks to our abominable education system and our subversive media.

[amnestynone]

No but we can block them politically. The problem is we have become so deep into big business rhetoric we cant so easily back away from it and so many people refuse to see what is going on. They need us as much or even more than we need them so it is time to play the card.

[kearnyirish2]

I suspect Republicans in general never opposed ObamaCare to begin with; the healthcare costs to employers have put them at a disadvantage with Asian coolies working for a bowl of noodles per week, and anything that will reduce those costs on employers would be seen as in the interests of Republicans’ business supporters. I see no indication Republicans in general oppose open borders in deferrence to the same special interests: cheap labor and a more consumers.

Any American expecting either party to protect American workers will be sorely disappointed.

[amnestynone]

We can’t join the Democrats and we can’t not vote. I think they need us on business needs and taxes an dwe should oppose them all o along the way until the border is secure, the corporate media stops smearing us and they bring the rest of us into the policy world.

[kearnyirish2]

I agree; I’ll always vote against the Dems. I just know the other side isn’t much better.