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Bwa ha! Bwa ha ha ha ha! Losers!!

March 10, 2008 By admin

This should get sent to Limbaugh and every conservative radio host in America:

“The U.S. Episcopal Church and its pension fund, both based in New York, received an embarrassing reminder of that when they attempted to target Zimmer Holdings with a dose of shareholder activism.

“The recent proxy filing by Zimmer, a Warsaw-based orthopedics company, included a shareholder proposal from the church asking the company to take more steps to diversify its board of directors, ‘all of whom are white males.’ The church pointed to the ‘cozy clubbiness that too often has characterized U.S. corporate boards.

“There was just one problem.

“Dr. Augustus White, a member of Zimmer’s board since 2001 and a noted spine surgeon, is black… Zimmer’s Web site carries a photo of White…”

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