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Except people like me, who gave money to SGK, do have a say. I stopped donating money the day they announced this political move.

Nope. It isn't up to you at all. The only thing up to you is who you donate your money to. That's it. After that, it's not your money, but theirs. The get to decide after that.
Why did you stop donating to SGK? Because they cut PP out of their portfolio of who gets their money?

The entirely right wing political reason and person behind the move.

You stopped donating to SGK because they stopped giving to PP?

Because of the way and reason they tried to. I am not alone BTW. SGK donations ae way down.

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Except people like me, who gave money to SGK, do have a say. I stopped donating money the day they announced this political move.

Nope. It isn't up to you at all. The only thing up to you is who you donate your money to. That's it. After that, it's not your money, but theirs. The get to decide after that.
Why did you stop donating to SGK? Because they cut PP out of their portfolio of who gets their money?

The entirely right wing political reason and person behind the move.

You stopped donating to SGK because they stopped giving to PP?

Because of the way and reason they tried to. I am not alone BTW. SGK donations ae way down.

The way? The reason? What other way would have been acceptable? PP isn't a provider and SGK wants to give to providers, not referral services. WTF is wrong with that?

I'd really like to understand what "way" SGK stopped funding for PP and why you didn't like it.

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It was a very transparent attack on an abortion provider for being an abortion provider by a politcian who was well known for her anti choice position. That's why so many donors and volunteers revolted.

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It was a very transparent attack on an abortion provider for being an abortion provider by a politcian who was well known for her anti choice position. That's why so many donors and volunteers revolted.

SGK is run by a politician?

Do you donate to PP? Did you shift your SGK donations to PP?

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How much of your nose are you willing to cut off to spite your face?

Would I refuse to go to the best cancer treatment center in the area because I saw a bumper sticker I didn't like in the staff parking lot? Not fucking likely.

Would I switch coffee shops if the owner kept the talk radio stooges blaring on the radio? Very fucking likely.

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SGK hired the former Georgia Secratary of State Karen Handel as SVP of public policy. She is vehemently anti choice. During her losing run for Governor prior to taking the SKG job she had advocated defunding PP. Multiple sources indicated the new rule to not fund any organization being investigated by any government entity was a ploy to cover up true goal to defund PP.
I have always donated to PP . My SGK donations were split between PP and my prefered microlender.

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Let's suppose there is a business in your area who is the very best in your area for whatever product or service they provide. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn't matter what their business is. Could be a restaurant or an automobile repair shop or a florist. They provide the best service and price and product. Maybe you've never shopped there before or maybe you are already a regular customer. Nobody else in town can touch them.

I don't 100% boycott Walmart but most of the time I will make an effort to drive a little further to a store whose prices are not quite as good. I post petitions like Walmart can stop the next tragedy in Bangladesh.

I believe the way most pork is raised in this country is especially inhumane and have a strict policy of not eating it at restaurants except for ones like Chipotles. Read about their Food with Integrity policy. I rarely eat beef out either; in fact, I rarely eat out at all and so I can spend more at the grocery store for brands like Nature's Promise.

When I lived four miles away from a Whole Foods, I did a lot of my shopping there, despite there being a Publix 1/2 miles away. Now I'm 30 miles from a Whole Foods and do the best I can at supermarkets.

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Let's suppose there is a business in your area who is the very best in your area for whatever product or service they provide. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn't matter what their business is. Could be a restaurant or an automobile repair shop or a florist. They provide the best service and price and product. Maybe you've never shopped there before or maybe you are already a regular customer. Nobody else in town can touch them.

I don't 100% boycott Walmart but most of the time I will make an effort to drive a little further to a store whose prices are not quite as good. I post petitions like Walmart can stop the next tragedy in Bangladesh.
I believe the way most pork is raised in this country is especially inhumane and have a strict policy of not eating it at restaurants except for ones like Chipotles. Read about their Food with Integrity policy. I rarely eat beef out either; in fact, I rarely eat out at all and so I can spend more at the grocery store for brands like Nature's Promise.
When I lived four miles away from a Whole Foods, I did a lot of my shopping there, despite there being a Publix 1/2 miles away. Now I'm 30 miles from a Whole Foods and do the best I can at supermarkets.

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This is America and we`re still free to vote with our dollars, if we choose so.

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BTW, Emory University just kicked Chic Filet out of the cafeteria, and that was voted on by the students a month before the PR fiasco.

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So no, no scientific proof that Chic Filet does not make the best chicken sandwich in Atlanta, but some small region in the city thinks not.
Along with other people in other locations of the metro area that drive past the Chic Filet to pull into the local establishments selling chicken sandwiches.
Again, thanks for humbling me.

Edwynn, you have your choice for what establishment provides the best product/service, right? What does it matter if that's a Chic-Fil-A or Dirk Diggler's House o' Chicken (any resemblance to a real establishment is completely random, and should in no way be taken as support nor denial of same)?

Apply the question to whatever establishment you think provides the best whatever product. Would you continue to be a customer of an establishment if that customer's politics is opposite yours, even if the products/services rendered were far and above their nearest competitor? That's all that's being asked in the OP.

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If you can believe it, the product that prompted the question was actually vacuum tubes.

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So no, no scientific proof that Chic Filet does not make the best chicken sandwich in Atlanta, but some small region in the city thinks not.
Along with other people in other locations of the metro area that drive past the Chic Filet to pull into the local establishments selling chicken sandwiches.
Again, thanks for humbling me.

Edwynn, you have your choice for what establishment provides the best product/service, right? What does it matter if that's a Chic-Fil-A or Dirk Diggler's House o' Chicken (any resemblance to a real establishment is completely random, and should in no way be taken as support nor denial of same)?
Apply the question to whatever establishment you think provides the best whatever product. Would you continue to be a customer of an establishment if that customer's politics is opposite yours, even if the products/services rendered were far and above their nearest competitor? That's all that's being asked in the OP.

To the extent that I discriminate at all by patronizing or not a given establishment, I would much more discriminate based on their having much to say about politics at all more that the particulars of the politics.
As I said, I am more biased against stupid, which makes me biased against politics.
The few small businesses where I know the proprietor personally, they pretty much despise politics, so it's an easy choice to do business there.

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If you can believe it, the product that prompted the question was actually vacuum tubes.