Reply #59: In 2004 Home Depot was #16 of 50 TOP Corporate PACs

[Tigress DEM]

http://www.fec.gov/press/press2005/20050412pac/top50corpcash2004.pdf
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16 HOME DEPOT INC. BETTER GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, THE $541,820

SO does anyone know what Home Depot's contributions to better government entailed?

http://pac.leadershipinstitute.org/detailPAC.cfm?id=C00284885

The way I read this they declared themselves NON-Party and had 69% going to rethugs and 30% going to DEMS but where is the other 11%? Skimmed? Administrative costs?

To buy cute little pac pins for the executive elite to NOT wear??!!

http://ao.nictusa.com/ao/no/030014.html

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You note that while every Home Depot employee is issued an
orange shop apron, only store employees are required to wear them
on a daily basis. Home Depot PAC estimates that less than 6% of
the PAC apron pins will be distributed to store employees. You
state that Home Depot's corporate managers, who make up the
"overwhelming majority" of the Home Depot PAC's restricted class,
are not required to wear their shop aprons on a daily basis but
many do wear them four times a year for ceremonial purposes at
quarterly corporate meetings. Therefore, although the subset of
the restricted class who will actually wear the PAC apron pin on
their shop aprons is unknown, Home Depot PAC estimates that more
than 94% of the PAC apron pins will be worn for no more than the
four annual ceremonial occasions. Furthermore, given Home
Depot's long tradition of issuing apron pins and their customary
display, you state that it is "extremely unlikely" that the pins
will be worn in any manner other than on the shop apron. You
assert that, given the limited distribution of the pins to
members of the restricted class, and the fact that most members
of the restricted class only wear their shop aprons at four
corporate events per year, it is unlikely that the Home Depot PAC
pin will be seen by a significant number of individuals who are
outside the Home Depot PAC's restricted class.