Boycott John O'Neill

[GDoyle]

One of the horrible people exposed in this last election is one John O'Neill of the Swift Boat Vets. As you may or may not know, Mr. O'Neill is an attorney in Houston, Texas with the firm of Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson, L.L.P. On thing I'd really like to do is pay Mr. O'Neill back for his horrendous, unscrupulous and classless behavior during this election. The man really acted as a piece of swine in what he did to a fellow Navy Officer.

Now I don't think any liberal bloggers will be retaining his firm any time soon. So a boycott of his firm wouldn't accomplish much. But, his firm's website does list representative clients on it, in other words, companies they represent. Since Mr. O'Neill is a partner, his income depends directly on these companies.

Here is the list:

Mitchell Energy & Development Corp.
ExxonMobile Corporation
General Electric Company
Eastman Kodak Company
EOG Resources, Inc.
The Williams Companies
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.
Weyerhauser Real Estate Corp.
Core Laboratories, Inc.
Duke Energy Trading & Marketing, L.L.C.
Duke Field Services, Inc.
Elementis Chromium, Inc.
Gyrodata, Inc.
Koch Industries
Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
MidAmerican Energy Corp.
Reliant Energy-Houston Lighting & Power Company
Wild Well Control, Inc.
The Wing Group, Inc.

Now most of these I am not familiar with and probably would be difficult to boycott in that we don't use their services. But a couple to be sure we could...GE, Kodak, MobilExxon, etc.

Also we could all write them and let them know why we're boycotting them and tell them we will continue to do so as long as they associate themselves with those we consider disreputable. We can choose how and why we spend our money and where we want it filtered to. I certainly don't want the money I spend on gas to eventually end up in John O'Neill's pocket via Exxon/Mobile....so I'll choose to go to Shell instead.

We could set up a website on this and spread it throughout the blogosphere and perhaps set up a site like the Sinclair One to e-mail clients. We could perhaps take donations and run a full page ad in the USA Today urging non-bloggers who are similarly disgusted by John O'Neill's actions to do the same. One thing you can be sure of, the last thing a lawyer wants to do is garner bad publicity for his clients. It could put him in a very tough spot.

Thoughts on this project?

GDoyle

[KharmaTrain]

1. Boycott Defense Contractors? Geesh...

What or what am I gonna do the next time I need a aircraft radar detection system?

Right now there's a Democratic party that has imploded to either save or salvage or just watch further eat itself alive. O'Neill won and now slithers back into the Texas Repugnican world he came from.

[GDoyle]

2. Ummm...

GE, Kodak and Exxon?

GDoyle

[KharmaTrain]

5. OK...So I Won't Buy Their Lightbulbs

or film or fill it at an Exxon station (not that there are any in my area)...then what?

Boycott sounds so wonderful, I have only seen a rare few that have ever been effective.

I'm not here flaming on you, just pointing out there are far more important fundamental issues to deal with here rather than to revisit the sideshows of last August.

I'm waiting to hear voices that want to fight smarter...I'm not hearing them.

[AlCzervik]

3. I have a guy, i get you his #

;-)

[Mick Knox]

4. IM WITH YOU

I dont think I buy from the transcontinental pipe line or Williams Companies anyway , but if I ever see their products in the Quickie Mart, you can bet I'll shy away. I damn sure wont buy a well from wild well corp either.


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