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Another e-mail snippety snippet: 5. Urban Outfitters President is Big Santorum Supporter
Someone emailed me recently asking if it was true that Urban Outfitters was a big supporter of anti-gay bigot Senator Rick Santorum. I did some checking on the Web, and in fact, the Chairman & President of Urban Outfitters, Richard Hayne, is a big Santorum donor (Fight-PAC, mentioned below, is a political action committee run by Santorum).
According to a story I just found in the Philadelphia Weekly: "While the typical Urban Outfitters shopper is likely to be liberal-minded--as is the province and privilege of youth--the fiftysomething Hayne is mom-and-apple-pie conservative. He and his wife Margaret have contributed $13,150 to the campaign coffers of Paleolithic right-wing Republican Sen. Rick Santorum..." - You can read more about Richard Hayne here: http://www.phillyweekly.com/archives/article.asp?ArtID=5725
Wonder how Urban Outfitters' young clientele would feel about all of this? Here are the detailed donations, from FECInfo.
HAYNE, RICHARD A 5/14/1997 $1,000.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS - SANTORUM 2000
HAYNE, RICHARD A 7/20/1998 $500.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS - SANTORUM 2000
HAYNE, RICHARD 11/7/2000 $5,000.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS - REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA
Hayne, Richard 4/16/2001 $2,500.00 Philadelphia, PA 19107 Urban Outfitters/Chairman - REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA
HAYNE, RICHARD 12/8/1998 $3,000.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 URBAN OUTFITTERS - FIGHT-PAC
HAYNE, MARGARET 5/14/1997 $1,000.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS INC - SANTORUM 2000
HAYNE, MARGARET 7/20/1998 $500.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS INC - SANTORUM 2000
HAYNE, MARGARET 12/31/1997 $900.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19118 URBAN OUTFITTERS INC - SANTORUM '94
HAYNE, MARGARET A 12/8/1998 $5,000.00 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 URBAN OUTFITTERS - FIGHT-PAC
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