Scotts Miracle Grow - More Fertilizer For Romney's Bullshit

[TeaBagsAreForCups]

Scotts Miracle-Gro goes out on a limb with political donation
By T.W. Farnam, Published: August 8

In an election year filled with secret campaign money, the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company has made the unlikely choice to go public with a big political donation.

The Ohio-based company, familiar as the producer of a ubiquitous plant fertilizer, is now a political player, donating $200,000 in June to the Restore Our Future super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

That makes Miracle-Gro among the first public companies with well-known consumer brands to publicly enter the new world of campaign funding.

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James Hagedorn, Miracle-Gro’s chairman and chief executive, made the choice to support Romney with company funds, said Jim King, a senior vice president at the company. The company’s lobbyists presented Hagedorn with options for contributing in the presidential race, including ways to keep the company’s name private.

“His point of view was, ‘If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it in the light of day,’ ” said King, who spoke for the company.

The company would benefit from a Romney presidency, King said, citing the Republican’s policies on corporate tax reform, business regulation and federal spending, and the belief that Romney could revive a weak economy.

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King said the company anticipated some backlash but thought the benefits outweighed the risk. “Just as many people applaud you and say ‘I’m going to buy your products for life,’ ” King said.

Hagedorn’s father, Horace, a Madison Avenue marketing genius, created Miracle-Gro and founded the company in 1950. Together with his siblings, James Hagedorn owns 30 percent of the company, giving him a tight hold on power.

Perhaps the biggest reason why Miracle-Gro made the donation may be Hagedorn himself. A former F-16 fighter pilot known for making analogies to war fighting, Hagedorn has shown a willingness to take controversial stances, such as firing workers who won’t agree to quit smoking as part of a plan to cut health-care costs.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-influence-industry-scotts-miracle-gro-goes-out-on-a-limb-with-political-donation/2012/04/18/gJQAgUTThX_story.html

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Rats! Not Miracle Grow!

It's the most ubiquitous plant fertilizer out there. If one wishes to use something that is 'shelf-stable' (as in not 'natural', like horse manure...) any suggestions from DUers??

[Marrah_G]

3. We use fish meal in the garden

Google Organic Fertilizers. There are alot of choices out there, even plant specific types.

[Marrah_G]

2. Putting chemicals on your food while it grows sucks anyway

[Joe Shlabotnik]

4. makes sense, appealing to the angry, maniacal 'get off my lawn' vote n/t

[Tom Ripley]

5. "A former F-16 fighter pilot" who never actually engaged in an air fight "known for making analogies

to war fighting"