For Target ,Tolerant World is Work in Progress

Aug. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Target and its corporate retail cousin Best Buy are are being raked over the coals for donations to a Minnesota group that backed an anti gay opponent for governor. Now they are being boycotted and protested nationally it is forcing the investors to  make Target rethink its positions about supporting MN Forward with a 150,000 dollar contribution to support anti-gay Republican candidate Tom Emmer. Target did this after a recent Supreme court decision tore apart a 63 year old law that banned corporations from making campaign donations. The laws were put in place to make sure corporations would not be able to force political policies against the American people. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) wrote an open letter to Target published in the Minnesota Star Tribune. “It's time to make things right,” …“The very least you can do to begin rebuilding your image among fair-minded consumers is to make equivalent donations to groups that support candidates who will put all Minnesota families first and fulfill the promises of our highest ideals.”
“ The anti-Target effort among consumer activists, meanwhile, continues to draw
Strong criticism on Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel who wrote associated press reports a recent public apology wherein he states he believes  a “business climate conducive to growth is critical to our future,” but added he had not anticipated how the donation would affect its employees. “And for that I am genuinely sorry,”
Yet Gay rights organizations have continued with petitions and viral videos — even though one cable network has rejected a national ad buy from liberal group MoveOn.org urging a Target boycott. MoveOn's political action committee placed a video of a musical protest at one Target store on YouTube, where it has half a million views. See link below.
CEO J. Lynda Blake of Hot Stepz Magazine stated that “Target is one of our strongest supporters and distributors along with Zinio and Barnes and Noble they have carried our publication faithfullywith the knowledge it speaks to people of all races, genders,social, and religious backgrounds, we are unique as an  urban dance and Entertainment Magazine and as such have a large following in a wide demographic of communities we are sure our readers will see Target make this right.
But on a lighter side this video "Target Ain't People" IS FUNNY AS....!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhMMmqzbD8



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