Boing Boing links to a Washington Post article that reveals links between the GOP and America’s largest manufacturer of duct tape.
Which made me think of a few things I joked about, why, just the other day!
*sigh*
Keeping power through fear and making a buck. How Amurrican.
Posted by: Eric Sinclair at February 23, 2003 1:58 PMI did some checking at OpenSecrets.org, which among other things allows user-friendly searches of FEC raw data.
The unnamed duct tape company in the WA Post article is Manco Inc., which is part of the Henkel Consumer Adhesives conglomerate. Search results for the Kahl family of Avon, OH and/or individuals who identified Manco as their employer produced the following figures for both the 2000 and 2002 election cycles -- all to Repub candidates and/or committees:
Annie Kahl: $ 1,000
Jack J. Kahl, Jr.: $ 14,660
John J. Kahl: $ 103,000
John J. Kahl, Jr.: $ 8,533
John M. Kahl: $ 2,500
Margaret Kahl: $ 2,500
William Kahl: $ 2,000
Other Manco employees: $ 5,000 [only if identified as such in the data]
TOTAL: $ 139,193
Also, the Henkel Consumer Adhesives site identifies Shurtape Technologies of North Carolina as their "core partner and supplier in duct tape." Republican donations from those naming Shurtape as their employer totalled an additional $6,000 during the same election cycles.
Posted by: Spencer at February 24, 2003 1:00 PM
