Coke Partners With Communist Van Jones

Today's Wall Street Journal Op Ed reports on the pathetic appeasement of corporate America to socialist Van Jones and his Color of Change group. Color of Change has manufactured a campaign to portray the free market advocacy group, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), as racist as a result of its support of voter ID laws. Preposterous and even laughable you say? Well this is no laughing matter. Corporate America is joining with the radicals.

"Color of Change and outfits like the Center for Media and Democracy are playing up the race angle because they know it has the most potential to spook big businesses. If they merely fought against tax cuts or school choice, the companies would ignore them. But if you shout "racism" in a crowded marketplace, most CEOs duck and cover.

And sure enough, Coca-Cola quickly announced it would stop its $25,000 donation to ALEC, saying in a statement that 'Our involvement with ALEC was focused on efforts to oppose discriminatory food and beverage taxes, not on issues that have no direct bearing on our business.' So Coke executives are happy to get ALEC's help in their self-interest but head for the tall grass when ALEC needs a friend. Read the full WSJ Op Ed here.

So here we have it. This revolutionary, leftist organization is calling the shots with Coke, as well as with other corporate progressives/appeasers such as Mars, Wendy's, Kraft and The Gates Foundation. Doubt that Van Jones and his Color of Change is radical? Perhaps you have seen Jones as a regular guest on CNN with Soledad O’Brien and thought he looked respectable enough. Listen to his own words and judge for yourself.

The Color of Change explicitly supports race- and gender-based preferences in government contracting, college admissions, and hiring/promotion policies.

Corporate Progressives Align with Van Jones Against Voter ID Laws

The Color of Change is pure Red, for its founder Van Jones—a self described Communist and former Obama Green Jobs Czar. The Group explicitly supports race- and gender-based preferences in government contracting, college admissions, and hiring/promotion policies. Astoundingly, this racist group has gotten the support of corporations such as McDonald's, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intuit, Kraft, Arby's, and Walgreens (more on that later).

After being exposed by Glenn Beck (see video below for one of many segments Beck ran on Jones) and subsequently fired by the Obama regime, Van Jones has been on a tirade to extinguish conservative speech and influence.



The Color of Change has campaigned hard to get advertisers to pull ads from the  Rush Limbaugh radio show. The group's latest effort is to get corporate America to kowtow to drop their sponsorships of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a 40 year old association of state legislators whose mission is... 

"to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty." 

ALEC's policy experts have successfully teamed with public officials and the private sector on crafting model state bills covering everything from education reform and health care to pensions, public safety and civil justice. ALEC stands for the very ideals that progressives and communists like Van Jones abhor.

So, the following shameful companies have aligned with the Communist VAN JONES to block any form of voter ID laws throughout America.

• McDonald's
• Pepsi
• Coca-Cola
• Intuit
• Kraft
• Arby's (they also recently joined the hush rush crowd)
• Walgreens

Please contact each of the companies and let them know that siding with Van Jones is not acceptable. Or, Re-tweet the following.

Corp progressives @McDonalds @Pepsi @Coke @Intuit @Kraft @Arbys side with Communist VanJones to suppress Votor ID Lawsjohngaltlist.blogspot.com/2012/04/corpor…
— John Galt List (@JohnGaltList) April 13, 2012

Update: As reported on Bill O'Reilly last night, Johnson & Johnson, Wal-Mart, AT&T
and State Farm Insurance all stuck with ALEC and refused to be kowtowed by the radical left.

Support them all.