[EL] Starbucks & NoDough

[Peter Overby]

Wouldn't it be the same leverage for giving to a certain candidate or not giving to any candidate?



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From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of David A. Holtzman
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 5:36 PM
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Subject: [EL] Starbucks & NoDough

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


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