Alan Ashton - Thanksgiving Point - Donates $1,000,000 to "Yes on H8"

[daddytodd]

Alan Ashton, the owner/developer of the hideous Thanksgiving Point complex in Lehi gave a cool million to the "Yes on H8" campaign in California -- clearly an effort to counterbalance Bruce Bastian's $1 million donation to "No on H8."

Bruce and Alan were the co-founders of WordPerfect. They sold out a decade and a half ago to Novell, for something like a half-billion each.

Novell eventually sold the wreckage of WordPerfect to Corel. I think all three companies are now defunct, right?

I've never been to Thanksgiving Point, and now I never will. I'd encourage Utah LGBT & allies to avoid Ashton's business, if you can. I'm not proposing a boycott, simply urging everyone to examine whether or not they want to give money to a H8er like Ashton.

Incidentally, here's a list of other Mormons who have given vast sums to "Yes on H8" in recent days. Anyone know who any of these people/organizations are, so I can choose not to patronize their businesses either?
Hartford Holdings, Provo, UT $300,000
David Moon, Alpine, UT $200,000
Michele Adams Watterson, Cache, UT $100,000
Roger Bayer, Salt Lake City, UT $100,000
Katharine Garff, Bountiful, UT $100,000
Belinda Vandersloot, Idaho Falls, ID $100,000
The Vineyard Group (Cardon & Hiatt Families), Mesa, AZ $100,000

Comments

[sungriz.livejournal.com]

Corel is alive and well and creates Corel graphic suite which internationally is the Graphics product. It has outsold Adobe in europe etc. (everywhere but USA) They still have Wordperfect and it is available today. they have even incorperated some of the Worperfect text ideas for Corel Draw.

PS Steve Young has donated to no on 8 !!!! yah really