The San Francisco Chronicle has Donations to governor earn Target a boycott.

A California consumer group is telling seniors not to shop at Target stores because of the more than $300,000 the retailer has given to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

California Consumers United has spent $50,000 for a Bay Area radio campaign aimed at hitting one of the governor’s supporters in the wallet.

The campaign is designed to piggyback on Target’s effort to attract more seniors and working families by putting pharmacies in their larger stores, said Cory Black of the consumer group.

“We’re calling on Target to do right by their customers, who aren’t the large political donors spending $100,000 to have their picture taken with the governor,” he said.

California Consumers United is a labor backed leftie organization. Their website is here.

Listen to their Target Radio Ad here.

Well, “Snap My Girdle” the ad is full of half truths and innuendo. Funny how the Left sets up these union supported campaign issue organizations to hide their advertising campaign behind. Does this meet the spirit of the campaign disclosure laws…. NOPE.

But, what should you expect from an organization that blogs over at Sacramento for Democracy, the same leftie site that features Stephen Pearcy and Cindy Sheehan.

Target responds,

The ad, and the call for a consumer boycott, is an unusual political tactic, said Lena Michaud, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-based retailer.

“What we’re seeing here is fairly unique,” she said.

Target is bipartisan and works with both major parties, Michaud said in a written statement.

“We contribute to political candidates based upon our corporate business agenda and that support is not tied to any one issue,” she said.

Since 2004, Target has given $100,000 to Citizens to Save California, which worked to qualify the governor’s initiatives for the special election ballot, and $210,000 to the governor’s California Recovery Team, which supports Schwarzenegger’s political aims.

Target also spent $250,000 to back a referendum that erased a law that would have required many California businesses to provide health care for their workers, $100,000 to the California Business Properties Association, another of Schwarzenegger’s backers, and tens of thousands of dollars to the state Republican and Democratic parties and legislators on both sides of the political aisle.

Target has nothng to fear from this pseudo-boycott. This is a leftie front organization with no real memberhship nor staying power beyond embarassing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. They want to drive down his poll numbers to defeat Propositions 75, 76, 77 among others on the November ballot.

This organization previously announced a boycott of The Gap, after the founder, Dan Fisher, contributed over $200,000 to the Governor.

Groups like California Consumers United are not required to report where their contributions come from, since they don’t directly call for the election or defeat of a candidate. But Black said the $50,000 the group has spent on the radio ads was raised from by members and supporting organizations.

“We’re not being financed by any political organization or group opposed to the governor,” he said.

Schwarzenegger’s backers aren’t so sure.

The consumer group is using “secret money” to buy ads smearing the governor with “false and misleading charges,” said Todd Harris, a spokesman for Schwarzenegger’s political team.

Everyone knows the money for the ads is coming from labor and their leftie cronies. The quote “We’re not being financed by any political organization or group opposed to the governor,” is a LIE and I challenge California Consumers United to release a complete donor list of their contributors.

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