Meijer Admission [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
The Meijer [3] retail chain has issued a public apology, admitting that it "likely violated campaign finance and reporting laws [4]" and pledging to "comply with any and all direction, penalties, fines or other actions required by the Department of State" in connection with its covert effort to manipulate elections [5] in Acme Township, Michigan, where local officials opposed its plan to build a store. Meijer used Seyferth, Spaulding, Tennyson Inc. [6], a public relations [7] firm based in Grand Rapids, to set up several front groups [8] for the purpose of harassing local officials and orchestrating a recall election [9]. Ginny Seyferth, the president of the PR firm, responded to Meijer's statement by saying, "We stand by Meijer and look forward to the complete resolution of this matter."