[EL] Starbucks & NoDough

[David A. Holtzman]

Starbucks' chief wants people to refrain from giving to federal 
campaigns 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/opinion/nocera-boycott-campaign-donations.html>, 
as a way to make politicians shape up.

What leverage might he have over his employees to push compliance with a 
NoDough boycott?

When you donate to a federal campaign, you fill in your employer on the 
form.Could the head of Starbucks search for "Starbucks" in donation 
records and penalize the employee-donors in any way?If he has their 
pictures (say, from ID badges), could he put up posters of shame in 
Starbucks stores?In backrooms? In public areas?Could he require stores 
to hand out lists of offenders and their home addresses (from their 
contribution disclosure forms)?[Or, could somebody else hand out such 
lists outside Starbucks stores?]Does it matter that the NoDough movement 
is not a campaign for or against any candidate?

How powerful could a NoDough movement be?

- David A. Holtzman


-- 
David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D.
david at holtzmanlaw.com

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