2 companies scrap Rep. Hagedorn donations after BLM comments
Source: bringmeMNthenews
One company has asked for its donation back.
Updated: Jul 24, 2020
Some companies that have supported U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn's campaign are disavowing his recent comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and are asking for their money back or vowing not to contribute to his campaign in the future.
Hagedorn in a post on Facebook in June, wrote:
"The Democrat 'Black Lives Matter' Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture. Their radical movement is orchestrated and growing. We must never let them take power. We must stand up and defend our country, our nations identity, our Judeo-Christian values and our American way of life."
Critics say the notion of protecting "western culture" has been linked to the white nationalist movement, and has been invoked, among others, controversial Iowa Rep. Steve King, who has a long history of racist remarks. Now the Minnesota Republican's remarks have led to at least two companies who've donated to his campaign disavowing his remarks.
UnitedHealth Group has donated $7,500 to his reelection campaign (one of his largest corporate contributors), including $2,500 on June 30, and Intel last donated $4,000 to his campaign in late 2018, Popular Information said...........................
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vote the bigot OUT of politics.
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,761 posts)He was also the only MN representative to have voted against removing Confederate statues from the Capitol. Even the other GOPers voted for removing them. That's how bad he is. https://www.southernminn.com/faribault_daily_news/news/state/article_821ba673-13e4-5e7e-a207-95b7bd26356f.html
moose65
(3,167 posts)Why in the world are there Confederate monuments in MINNESOTA???? Geez
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,761 posts)He wouldn't have anything to say about what was in the state capitol anyhow - that would be up to the state government.
moose65
(3,167 posts)I think I remember reading that there IS a Confederate monument in Wisconsin, of all places!
marble falls
(57,124 posts)One in twelve Confederate monuments are in Northern States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/15/about-one-out-of-every-12-confederate-memorials-in-the-u-s-is-in-a-union-state/
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Good Lord!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,761 posts)DFW
(54,414 posts)I know little about Intel, but always imagined it to be an enlightened Silicon Valley company. If they supported this lowlife, I was obviously sadly mistaken.
United Health (more accurately: "Denied Health" ) always struck me as the kind of company that would be proud to support a sleaze bag like Hagedorn. I'm sure their dismay at Hagedorn's statements is mostly due to the fact that their support of him became public.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a major water carrier for United Health at the State Capital. Front and center lobbying against any expansion of State sponsored Health Insurance.
DFW
(54,414 posts)They seemed to me to be the perfect real world incarnation of the "Great Benefit" health insurance company in his novel "The Rainmaker."
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)wiped out by United,that was the shot across the bow for deteriorating Health care for all Working Americans.
This outfit spends billions on Lobby Shops around the Country in order to strip mandates out of State Laws dealing with your and mine health care.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)Sometimes politicians donate the amount to some charity/cause rather than back to the original donor.
PSPS
(13,603 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)They'll buy anyone.
lonely bird
(1,687 posts)I am tired of fat, old, white guy politicians and the racist stupidity spewed by many of them.
Judeo-Christian, my ass.
Hmongliberal
(39 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)lonely bird
(1,687 posts)Let us not for get Rubio or Cruz or any other Republican asshat.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Mister Ed
(5,940 posts)... before Walz became governor. Time to take it back. The district deserves another honorable, ethical, and reasonable rep like Walz.