Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz now has more than 100 corporate leaders who have signed onto his boycott-political-donations plan. The industry titans are promising to cut the flow of cash to D.C. until lawmakers stop being such insufferable hacks.These CEOs, who lean predominately to the left and therefore have an innate pull toward political self-destruction, are ready to become the martyrs that Washington so desperately needs.Conservative PACs and big-money donors, meanwhile, have apparently no such plans to stop spending.Schultz released his list of new companions in his boycott-D.C. plan on Thursday.They include:Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO, AOLRon Baron, CEO, Baron Capital ManagementWarren Bennis, Founding Chairman, Leadership Institute USCBill Campbell, Chairman, IntuitMillard Drexler, Chairman and CEO, J. Crew GroupDavid J. Field, President and CEO, Entercom CommunicationsRon Graves, CEO, PinkberryBob Greifeld, CEO, NASDAQScott Griffith, Chairman and CEO, Zipcar, Inc.Alan G. Hassenfeld, Former Chairman and CEO, Hasbro, Inc.Kevin Johnson, CEO, Juniper NetworksOlden Lee, Retired Executive, PepsiCoJack Lief, Chairman, President and CEO, Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Miles Nadal, Chairman and CEO, MDC Partners Inc.Duncan Niederauer, CEO, NYSEPete Peterson, Founder, Peter G. Peterson FoundationJamie Shennan, Retired General Partner Emeritus, Trinity VenturesIrwin Simon, Chairman and CEO, Hain-Celestial GroupBarry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO, Starwood Capital GroupWalter Robb, Co-CEO, Whole FoodsFrederic D. Rosen, Co-CEO, Outbox EnterprisesKevin P. Ryan, founder and CEO, Gilt GroupMyron E. (Mike) Ullman, Chairman and CEO, JC Penney CompanyCraig Weatherup, Retired CEO, Pepsi-Cola CompanyMaggie Wilderotter, Chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications.According to OpenSecrets.org, with a few exceptions, all the above bosses generally donate more to liberal causes than conservative ones. Meanwhile, OpenSecrets also says that the majority of PACs forming are conservative. And in 2010, conservatives dwarfed liberals in spending nearly two to one.And when it comes to individual donors, the site shows Democrats and Republicans running neck-and-neck, each with $110 million raised for 2012 House, Senate, and Presidential races.Obviously, those figures came before Schultz and Co. decided to turn off the spigot.To be sure, what Schultz is proposing is noble. Washington politicians need a wake-up call like no other.Unfortunately, like most political outcomes in this country, that wake-up call (if indeed it’s even heard) will likely be at the expense of liberal causes far over conservative ones. This election will be a war, and Schultz’s mutiny, while principled, is destined to cause casualties on his own side. Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.
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