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A retired GM engineer has launched boycottalabamanow.com urging a boycott of Alabama because our Republican Sen. Richard Shelby is not helping the domestic auto industry.
From the front page of the web site (at this writing):
We are starting a nationwide boycott of Alabama that will include any travel into the state well as boycotting the purchase of anything produced in any way within the state.
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To those hard working people in Alabama, we apologize for the boycott and the loss of income and future employment from this boycott but please understand that it is within your power to elect a representative who has America’s best interest in mind. Many people have watched as Mr. Shelby spewed inaccurate statements during the senate hearings. It is clear that Senator Shelby has no idea of the inner workings of the Big Three, yet his title allows him to poison the air with non-truths about the domestic auto industry.
The front page of the Boycott Alabama Now site lists a half-dozen mentions that the site has received in the media, including from three TV stations.
The website urges readers to call the Business Council of Alabama “so that they know we mean business” with the boycott. (Actually, I think that, being a boycott, they mean no business, but you get the idea.)
The woman who answered the phone at BCA this morning told me she knew of no calls about a boycott, and my call was the first she had heard about it.
Related… the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has an ad that specifically shows Shelby as one of the Senate Republicans who broke the economy but doesn’t want to help fix it. The ad has a tv clip of Shelby saying, “Close’em down. Get’em out of business. If they’re dead, they ought to be buried.”
Hat tip to reader W for the website and Left in Alabama for the DSCC ad.
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These things never work but if that guy has the time and money to burn setting up a website. Then by all means…burn away pal!
this website has been up for quite awhile i believe..just another riled up yankee imo…i doubt people pay it much attention…
UAW retiree sets up boycott to hurt GOP Senator in a right-to-work State.
The website was set up in 2008, why the interest now?
Yeah, that is relatively old news. I haven’t noticed any down tick in tourism stemming from the site’s creation.
It’s a sad day in America when refusing to give a government handout means you loathe an individual/company/group and justifies a boycott. GM and other failing companies should right their own ship or sink.
Am I mistaken or is this the same guy that ran the radio ads in the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham bashing Shelby back in 2008?
looks like old joe from the wbsite is really hurting…
http://www.collectorcarenterprise.com/documents/april_07.pdf
he’s the owner…lol
About the DSCC ad: What happened to the transparency, truth, and reaching across the table promised by Obama? He and the Democratic party are falling into exactly the same trap as the GOP in the post-1994 glow.
What was positive, unifying, or motivating about that ad? Other than to incite anger and emotion? How is this any different than the disheartening politics as usual? We the people are really, really tired of these ads.
What a joke.
What has America become ….. we sink tax dollars into a business that cant make it on its own. I want American companies to make it but I am not for giving one tax payer penny to a company just to keep them alive a little longer. It’s simple, make a quality product that folks can afford and you will get rich doing it, if you cant, then you go the way of the Doo-Doo bird and become extinct.