TN passes bigoted gay bill lobbied for by Republicon Chamber of Commerce and 13 bigoted companies

[louslobbs]

Last week, AMERICAblog reported that the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce — chaired by Nissan, and whose other board members include such companies as Nissan, FedEx, AT&T, Comcast, DuPont, Pfizer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caterpillar, KPMG, Whirlpool, Embraer, Alcoa, and United HealthCare — actively lobbied for this bill.

Once these companies were outed for their hand in supporting this bigoted bill, Aloca, FedEx, AT&T, KPMG, UnitedHealth Group, Whirlpool, and Comcast all disavowed the proposed law that they all lobbied for. They were all for it before they were against it.

But earlier on Monday, just hours before bigoted Republicon Gov Haslam signed the bill, AMERICAblog reported that all 13 companies were put on notice several weeks ago, by members of the Nashville city council, that the legislation THEY WERE LOBBYING FOR, via their roles on the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, would repeal Nashville’s civil rights ordinance.

Not one of the companies did anything to stop the bills passage, because after all, they wanted it to pass, lobbied for it's passage and only after it was too late to stop it from going to the governors desk for signing, did some of these phony companies start to "disavow" the law. What a bunch of pathetic low life frauds........cowards the lot of them. So now they got their bill passed and want to protect themselves from a potential backlash by consumers by making a false statement about "disavowing" the law they all lobbied for.

The letter was delivered April 29, just days after the bill was passed in the House. None of these gay hating companies took action to stop the bill before it cleared the Senate on May 12. These companies now own this Bill and it's bigotry. Make a note of the companies above for your reference. I will do no business with any of these companies in the future.
Lou

Lou

[xchrom]

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[louslobbs]

2. That's exactly how I look and feel xchrom. I'm convinced now, the Thugs are terrorists plain and

simple. They will terrorize the city of Joplin now with the threat that they will not sign on for a package to help them as they suffer, if the Psycho Thugs don't get something in return, budget cuts. I can't even tell you what I'd like to do.
Lou

[Travelman]

3. Does anyone have any actual EVIDENCE of this?

I've seen this thrown up around blogs all over the place, but it's not sizing up very much.

First of all, the http://tennessee.org/">Tennessee Chamber of Commerce is little more than a glorified state-wide yellow pages that is tilted a bit towards driving tourism into the state and as far as I know, does not engage in any lobbying activity. I suspect what these folks are referring to in these blogs is instead the http://tnchamber.org/">Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry, who most definitely are a lobbying group.

Secondly, while it's a relatively minor detail, it shows a serious sloppiness in reporting and fact-gathering: there is no Nashville city council. It's called the Metro Council.

Third, Nissan is a company http://www.outandaboutnewspaper.com/article/367">known for offering domestic partner benefits, and they are specifically considered a http://gaywheels.com/2006/11/nissan_and_infiniti_are_gayfri/">gay-friendly car company. Also considered gay-friendly are http://www.gayfriendlycompanies.info/content/view/37/26/">AT&T, http://borngay.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=000035">Pfizer and Whirlpool, http://www.gayfriendlycompanies.info/content/view/19/26/">KPMG, http://www.gayfriendlycompanies.info/content/view/18/26/">Ford, and http://www.alcoa.com/global/en/news/news_detail.asp?pageID=20101011006056en&newsYear=2010">ALCOA.

This many companies who have openly gay-friendly policies and they're all lobbying for this stuff that deals only with government contracts? Most of these folks don't even have with government contracts with the city and never will. Nissan is not going to be selling fleet cars to the city of Nashville any time soon. The city has no need to buy bulk aluminum from ALCOA. The city is not going to buy an airplane from Embraer.




This just isn't making any sense. Something about these claims just isn't right. It's not adding up.