MC insurance - friend asked why I don't use Progressive

[smokey]

 
This is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are.  They are the ones with the clever television ads featuring the perky brunette actress all dressed in white. 

What you might not know is that the chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, one of the largest funders of the left in America.  He's your typical rich spoiled kid who took over the company from his father and apparently feels "guilty" for his success, and now dedicates himself to making it impossible for anyone else to become wealthy.
 
Between 2001 and 2003, Lewis funneled $15 million to the ACLU, the group most responsible for destroying what's left of America's Judeo-Christian heritage.  Indeed, Lewis is himself a ACLU member.  One of the ACLU projects he earmarked his funds for was an effort to sue school districts that have drug-testing policies.  In other words, this idiot wants teachers to be able to use drugs without fear of exposure.  I wonder what he would think if all his own employees came to work drugged out every day. 
 
Lewis also gave $12.5 million to MoveOn.org <http://moveon.org/> and American Coming Together, two key components of the socialist left.  The former group is perhaps the main group used by the Obama forces to organize their activists; the latter group is a 527 political action group that essentially served as a front for the SEIU union thugs who ran ACORN.  His funding for these groups was conditional on matching contributions from George Soros, the international socialist who finances much of the Obama political network.
 
It's disturbing that Lewis made a fortune as a result of capitalism but now finances a progressive movement that threatens to destroy the free enterprise system.  He reminds me somewhat of Armand Hammer, the former head of Occidental Petroleum, who did business with Joseph Stalin and become his good friend around the same time Stalin was executing business men all over the USSR .
 
What angers me further is the way this company is targeting television shows watched by conservatives, such as Fox News.

Peter Lewis is making a fortune off of conservative Americans so that he can destroy our country. He's banking on no one finding out who he is. 

[alph]

i'm not 100% crazy about progresive either.  last year my cycle insurance was $170 for the year, this year it went up to $220.  i called for an explaination, they said that everyones rates went up in our area.  time to shop around again, they're almost as expensive as american family, they were charging me $265 a year!! 

[Sharkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lewis_(businessman)

[Jess from VA]

Smokey, that info is a little dated, I believe Peter Lewis the former CEO of Progressive Ins, has stepped down but still on the Bd of Directors.  However, in his heyday, Lewis and Progressive Ins contributed huge money to all things liberal in this country... 2d only to George Soros.  I am not sure where Progressive is now with it's capital contributions, but for their past history, I would not do any business with them if they were the best and cheapest (or free) insurance anywhere.  I have posted this before.

The reason Lewis was against teacher drug testing was because he smoked a half ounce of weed a day for many years.

As of 2005, Progressive had grown to 27,000 employees with sales of $13.4 billion and become the third largest auto insurance company in the United States.  In 2000 Lewis retired as CEO of Progressive, though he remains as Chairman of the Board.   Contributed to MoveOn.org (with George Soros matching his $10 and $2.5 million, respectively), American Civil Liberties Union,  The Democratic Party, Democracy Alliance and Media Matters for America.  In February 2008, Lewis contributed money to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. He was also a close friend of Senator Ted Kennedy.

 

[Gear Jammer]

I knew some of this info already, but I've just learned a lot more.  Now I've got even more reasons to avoid Progressive.