Meijer Admission
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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."

Main Source: 
Grand Rapids Press, February 5, 2008 [10]
Topics: 
Crisis Management [11]
Front Groups [12]
Corporations [13]
Democracy [14]
Ethics [15]
Lobbying [16]
Public Relations [17]
Secrecy [18]

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Source URL: https://www.prwatch.org/spin/2008/02/6975/meijer-admission

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[1] https://www.prwatch.org/spin/2008/02/6975/meijer-admission
[2] https://www.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meijer
[4] http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/02/MEIJERACMESTATEMENT20508.pdf
[5] https://www.prwatch.org/node/6865
[6] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Seyferth,_Spaulding,_Tennyson_Inc.
[7] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/public_relations
[8] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/front_groups
[9] http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_037091642.html
[10] http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/02/meijer_it_likely_broke_electio.html
[11] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/crisis-management
[12] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/front-groups
[13] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/corporations
[14] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[15] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
[16] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/lobbying
[17] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations
[18] https://www.prwatch.org/topics/secrecy