Brent Budowsky - Letter to Disney Board

[Caro]

From BuzzFlash.com:

My Letter to the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company

by Brent Budowsky

To: Board of Directors
The Walt Disney Company
c/o Mr. Alan Braverman
Sr. Vice-President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, California 91521

Dear Board of Directors:

As a Disney Investor through a long term family account I call on you to remove Mr. Robert Iger as the CEO of this company, to retain a premier executive search firm to select candidates for his replacement and to send me, via overnight or two day delivery, a written copy of the company by-laws with attention drawn to regular and emergency procedures to bring a matter to the attention of all investors through an emergency vote, if needed.

As a patriotic American who believes deeply in our country, I want to say first to each and every one of you who serves on the Disney Board, I hope you are all as ashamed as governors of the company, by the discredit you have brought on the company, as I am, in being an owner of equity in a company that has disorted and demeaned our Nations commemoration of one of the solemn moments in our national history.

Because of your actions in the Path to 9-11, what should have been a healing and unifying moment in America to commemorate the greatest single national tragedy in our history on our shores, was turned into a multi-day spectacle that ripped open our wounds and further divided our nation.

In my humble opinion, what you have done may be the single most degrading moment in the history of network television and one of the most shameful, wounding exploitations of this terrible event. When our troops are under fire and our nation is so divided, it is particularly shameful that your product was so warped and twisted that our Nation spent precious days discussing its misreprentations, falsehoods, and radical biases rather than spending those hours unifying and healing ourselves and our country.

For a public company, using public airwaves, to so brazenly use this moment to interfere with a national election is almost a single compendium of so much that has divided and embittered so many in our nation, at so important a time in our history, and so momentous and occasion in our national life…

Click here for more, and to comment on the letter on BuzzFlash’s website.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[longship]

1. This is a very appropriate action for Disney.

If only more stockholders would echo these recommendations.
R & K.

[Seabiscuit]

11. I wish I could, but I dumped all my Disney stock Monday morning in protest

[trotsky]

2. K&R n/t

[immoderate]

3. The worst TV show ever made.

And that's a good case.

--IMM

[sub.theory]

4. This is an excellent letter!

The $40 million donation is a very good idea. Maybe it will get some results.

K & R

[Liberal Dose]

5. Thank you for posting.

:applause:

[KoKo]

6. Wow....check out Budowsky's resume....former assistant/ Loyd Bentsen

Brent Budowsky served as Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, responsible for commerce and intelligence matters, including one of the core drafters of the CIA Identities Law. Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives. Currently a member of the International Advisory Council of the Intelligence Summit. Left goverment in 1990 for marketing and public affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent management. He can be reached at [e-mail]

[Caro]

9. Brent was a Democratic strategist ...

... back when Democrats knew how to win. He's as angry as the rest of us at the so-called leadership that has lost election after election after election.

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

[Kurovski]

7. Terrific writing . The message is crystal clear.

Almost surgical precision. Cut out the cancer in ABC and Disney, or shut them down.

K&R

[Phrogman]

8. Woah! Read this paragraph....

You have interfered with a national election; you have further divided a divided country; you have further wounded a wounded nation; you have produced what was essentially propaganda film unworthy of a great company in a democratic nation; you have selectively leaked to partisans and ideologues who have used it to demean other Americans in the most shamefully partisan ways; you have presented false, condescending and sexist impressions of people who are not only former high level leaders but human beings worthy of far more fair and respectful treatment; and you unilaterally injected several days of warped and deformed debate, about your warped and deformed product, on a Nation commemorating a momentous occasion that for the rest of us, should have been unifying and healing.

Pow! Biff! Bang!

[mnhtnbb]

10. Also see Brent Budowsky's call for election ad funding on Buzzflash

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/407

[KoKo]

12. That's an incredible read....but Budowsky has some interesting connections

From the mid-1970's to 1990 Brent Budowsky served in senior Congressional Staff positions including Legislative Assistant to former U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Legislative Director to Representative Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Majority Whip. With Senator Bentsen Mr. Budowsky was extensively involved with the Intelligence Identities Protection Law and Intelligence Officers Death Benefits Act. During his years with Congressional Leadership he was involved with conflicts ranging from Central America and opposing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to supporting freedom in Eastern Europe and world trade issues.

Mr. Budowsky left politics in 1990 to pursue business interests involving marketing and public affairs ranging from the talent agency that represented Frank Sinatra to a Papal CD to traditional corporate business. Mr. Budowsky reengaged politically after 9-11 and informally advises both Democrats and Republicans. His politics are demonstrated in columns he occasionally writes. In a trilogy of essays in the Christian Science Monitor, Mr. Budowsky proposed after the contested 2000 election that both parties reach out for a new bipartisanship. He later proposed "Lets Make the Democrats the Patriot Party" and finally called in 2002 for a "Star Spangled" national unity ticket of Bob Kerrey and John McCain. Writing in the National Review Online (12/15/04) an essay titled "Reagan, Roosevelt, Rushmore" Mr. Budowsky called Presidents FDR and Ronald Reagan "the great bookends of freedom" who were the indispensable leaders in the victories over fascism and communism. Mr. Budowsky deplores the partisanship and divisions in American politics today and calls for a new bipartisanship necessary for a nation at war, facing what he believes is an inevitable terrorist WMD attack on American soil unless dramatic bipartisan initiatives are undertaken.


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[Caro]

13. And your point is?

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com