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In a way, this boggles me, and in another, it just seems so...inevitable.

Marchers had to duck into fast-food restaurants for water when they first took to Chicago's streets in support of illegal immigrants five months ago. At the next two marches, family-owned grocery stores offered free bottled water from trucks emblazoned with their names.

This time, as demonstrators march from Chinatown to House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-Ill.) Batavia office this weekend, they will have Miller Brewing Co., as a sponsor. The brewer has paid more than $30,000 for a planning convention, materials and newspaper ads publicizing the event.

The support of a major corporation for a controversial political cause shows how fierce the competition has become to woo the growing market of Latino consumers.


The Trib requires registration, but there are the usual workarounds.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0609010141sep01,1,4130753.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Date: 2006-09-01 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcurry.livejournal.com
The revolution will not be sponsored. Especially not by a beer company. Yeesh.

Date: 2006-09-01 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kristine-smith.livejournal.com
"This election sponsored by..."

Don't know if that's better, worse, or a moot point.

Date: 2006-09-01 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcurry.livejournal.com
At least then it'd be out in the open.

Date: 2006-09-01 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kristine-smith.livejournal.com
And we could get, like, tote bags and free samples outside polling places and stuff...

Date: 2006-09-01 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hittite.livejournal.com
Well now, if Apple was to sponsor the election and give out free iPods or whatnot... Might solve the so-called apathy problem among younger voters at the very least... I think I heard somewhere that more people voted for the last American Idol than the last American President.

American Idol outvotes the president (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1783339,00.html)

Date: 2006-09-01 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kristine-smith.livejournal.com
Well, now, a President is just a President.

Derivative MOR singers are *important*.

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