{"id":6885,"date":"2010-07-28T23:35:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2010-07-28T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:35:57","slug":"boycott-target-contributes-150000-to-anti-gay-gubernatorial-candidate-thomas-emmer-of-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/07\/28\/boycott-target-contributes-150000-to-anti-gay-gubernatorial-candidate-thomas-emmer-of-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Boycott Target! Contributes $150,000 to Anti-Gay Gubernatorial Candidate Thomas Emmer of Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/target03.jpg?resize=375%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"560\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2SipXbgyi68&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Target, practically everyone&#8217;s favorite discount retail store, is headquartered in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. But along with precious bodies of water, Minnesota is home to some pretty rabid anti-gay politicians and groups. Among them include Tom Emmer. And Target, it seems, is apparently filling his campaign coffers with nearly $150,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow the money. At least, that&#8217;s the message delivered by an article at sfist.com by Matt Baume, who tracks $150,000 from Target&#8217;s coffers, through a political action committee (PAC) known as Minnesota Forward, all the way to Tom Emmer, who himself supports a Christian rock band in Minnesota that travels around the state saying that it&#8217;s moral and righteous for religious people to kill gays and lesbians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For those into algebra, it looks a little like this: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And Target is cool with this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Send the company a message right now, urging them to explain why their money is being used to fund a politics that not only serves to prevent LGBT equality, but breeds homophobia, transphobia and hatred. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gayrights.change.org\/blog\/view\/targets_150000_donation_to_fund_anti-gay_politics\" target=\"_blank\">Change dot org via Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target, practically everyone&#8217;s favorite discount retail store, is headquartered in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. But along with precious bodies of water, Minnesota is home to some pretty rabid anti-gay politicians and groups. Among them include Tom Emmer. And Target, it seems, is apparently filling his campaign coffers with nearly $150,000. Follow the money. 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