From: Jkoens@aol.com Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 00:15:41 -0400 To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Subject: Hewlett-Packard Company ? Anti GUN ???? Hewlett-Packard was listed on the Invitation for the "HCI Fundraiser", at St Frances Hotel in San Fransico, CA to be held 6/29/95, as a BENEFACTOR. I called HP on several occaisions this week and after the typical run around finding the "Right" person, I spoke to a Ms. Mary Ann Easley. Ms Easley stated that yes in fact the legal department within HP made a contribution to another law office as a memorial fund for those involved in the shooting last year. Ms Easley stated several times emphatically that the Hewlett-Packard Company does NOT take ANY stand on guns, for or against... For those wishing to confirm the information I recieved (I hope someone will), The Phone number that put me in touch with Ms Mary Ann Easley is (415) 857-3137. I wonder if HCI used the "Memorial Fund" as a ploy to raise funds??? (Is this legal?) Maybe someone could convince these same people to contribute to "Fund for those unable to defend themselves because of bad gun laws???" Jake Koens Life NRA Certified Firearms Instructor __ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 11:19:40 -0700 From: Jeff Chan To: firearms-alert Subject: ANTIS: HP support of HCI The Correct number for Mary Anne Easley is (415) 857-7298 She is a professional PR person so don't expect much when you call. She gave me the same line others have repeated (that support was a decision from their lawyers to another group of lawyers, blah blah blah), that the contributiion was over $1500 and that HP will not print any kind of retraction. I asked her if she was aware that 50% of the money, which goes to HCI, is not tax deductible because HCI uses the money for political lobbying and she agreed. I asked to talk to her boss and her bosses boss and the head of the legal department who made the contribution but she would not cooperate. She agreed that it could appear that HP was supporting HCI, but said that they do not take a position on handgun control. In short, don't waste your time with her & don't post to the list unless you get info from some one above her that we can use to change HP's position. -- Jeff Chan mailto:chan@shell.portal.com +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | We should measure progress not by how many laws | | can be passed but by how little governing people need. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.portal.com/~chan/firearms.faq.html -- Firearms Info Guide Archive available by WWW and: ftp://ftp.shell.portal.com/pub/chan/ mailto:majordomo@shell.portal.com --firearms, liberty mailing lists From paul@thor.nti.com Thu Jun 22 12:14:32 1995 Received: from nova.unix.portal.com (nova.unix.portal.com [156.151.1.101]) by jobe.shell.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id MAA19738 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:14:31 -0700 Received: from rmii.com (rainbow.rmii.com [166.93.8.14]) by nova.unix.portal.com (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id MAA20556 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 12:14:31 -0700 Received: from nti.com by rmii.com with smtp (Smail-3.1.29.1 #4) id m0sOrgR-000JYQC; Thu, 22 Jun 95 13:12 MDT Received: from thor.nti.com by paladin.nti.com id aa00660; 22 Jun 95 13:14 MDT Received: by thor.nti.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA37239; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:13:42 -0600 From: Paul Ray Message-Id: <9506221913.AA37239@thor.nti.com> Subject: Re: ANTIS: HP support of HCI To: chan@shell.portal.com Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 13:13:41 -0600 (MDT) In-Reply-To: <199506221819.LAA13282@jobe.shell.portal.com> from "Jeff Chan" at Jun 22, 95 11:19:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 329 Status: RO > > The Correct number for Mary Ann Easley is (415) 857-7298 > I just spoke with Mary Ann today, and she told me that the use of the HP corporate logo by HCI was WITH HP APPROVAL. I even asked her twice to make sure I got it right. So, it looks like HP is no longer sitting on the fence, but is truly supporting HCI.