One reason to not buy Johnson and Johnson Products…
ST. PAUL — Of all the whales at the Republican National Convention this week, Robert Wood Johnson IV, the billionaire heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and owner of the New York Jets, may be the biggest.
Mr. Johnson has long been a player in Republican politics — he was a Bush Ranger in 2000 and 2004, raising more than $200,000 in each election. He has personally given more than $1 million to Republican candidates and committees over the years.
But this year, he emerged as perhaps the party’s most coveted donor. In May, after turning his office into a war room for more than a month and making sometimes 50 calls a day, he orchestrated a fund-raiser in New York City that brought in $7 million in a single evening for Mr. McCain, by far the largest amount collected up to that point by a campaign that had been struggling to raise money.
But Mr. Johnson also clearly has his own agenda. Staffers on Capitol Hill credit him with playing a pivotal role in 2002 in pushing members of Congress, including House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, to allocate $750 million over five years for juvenile diabetes research.
The RWJF also gives a boat of cash to NPR as well… bastion of the “liberal” media. 🙂
Just thought that was an interesting tidbit.
You know I’m not that picky, but when it’s in a headline, I must protest! That being said, it’s “bUy”!
damn
To follow up Dorian Gray: the RWJF, among other things has given away millions in the past decade to put wellness centers public schools (complete with access to birth control)….
The quoted article says he pushed Congress to allocate funding for juvenile diabetes research. I’d consider that a good thing.
And what other children’s charities do you plan to target? Now about those hedge funds? Was that a childrens’ charity or somebody’s child charity? Tell me more…
The J&J Family Foundation also gave a grant to Matthew Mitcham, the out-gay platform diving gold medalist from Australia so his partner could travel to Beijing and watch him compete. RWJ = bad person; J&J Foundation = pretty damn good.
ok. RWJF. Gives lots and lots of money to lots and lots of different organizations. TOns ‘o money. NPR, Republican candidates, gay athletes, anti-smoking groups, anti-drinking, christian, buddhist, jewish… etc.
But how the hell do they get all this money to give it out so freely?