“That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial“
by Justin Elliott, Megan O’Matz and Doris Burke, ProPublica; co-published with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 26, 2022
You’ve products shipped in their boxes. You yourself may have purchased their boxes, or any of their other myriad of products.
They are Uline, a private, family-owned company headquartered in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin. Liz and Dick Uihlein own and run the company. Going back a couple of generations, and including this generation, the family has funded some of the most far right organizations in America, including the original America First Committee of Charles Lindberg, the John Birch Society founded by Robert Welch, and currently pro-Trump America First Action, as well as prominent election denier candidates.
Perhaps this doesn’t mean much to you. But if it does, then you should be aware of how your hard earned dollars might inadvertently be falling into the hands of people who are using them to promote causes you be opposed to.
For more on Uline, the Uihlien family, who it funds, and how it runs its business, click on “That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial” and educate yourself. w/c
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