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Old 09-20-2010, 02:15 PM
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Default How Progressive is Progressive Insurance?

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How Progressive is Progressive Insurance?
This is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are. They're 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,
(see below) 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 an ACLU member. One
of the ACLU projects he earmarked his funds for was an effort to sue
school districts who 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 ; 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
became his good friend, around the same time Stalin was executing
businessmen 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.

Time to let all the conservatives know......


Peter Lewis is the Chairman of Progressive Insurance Co.
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Peter B. Lewis (born 1933) is the Cleveland, Ohio-area based chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies. Lewis currently resides in Coconut Grove, Florida.
Biography
Lewis attended Cleveland Heights High School and, in 1955, graduated from Princeton University.
Business
In 1965 Lewis became Progressive's chief executive officer after joining as an underwriting trainee in 1955. (His father, Joe Lewis, who died in 1955, co-founded Progressive with Jack Green in 1937.)[1]
In the 1960s Progressive had 100 employees and $6 million in revenues.
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.[2] In 2000 Lewis retired as CEO of Progressive, though he remains as Chairman of the Board.
In 1987, Lewis and Alfred Lerner (1933-2002), owner of the Cleveland Browns and CEO of MBNA America Bank, attempted a takeover of the Cleveland Trust Bank of Cleveland, Ohio. Though the takeover attempt was unsuccessful, it was profitable for both
Lewis and Lerner.
Lewis's approach to business is often unorthodox. For instance, Progressive's headquarters, designed by Bialosky + Partners Architects and built in 1994, includes a health club and a contemporary art
collection. Lewis credits these and other unorthodox factors for helping
create an environment in which creative thinking thrives—the kind of
creative thinking that Lewis says makes a more profitable business.
Donations
With an estimated net worth in excess of a billion dollars, Lewis frequently donates money to charities and political groups. He is a patron of the arts and supports many artistic pursuits. Lewis's personal
and corporate contemporary art collection is well known—the corporate
collection is displayed at Progressive Insurance offices. Lewis has made
donations to:
• Princeton University (A Gehry designed science library, $60 million; the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, $55 million; arts initiative, $101 million. Total
$233 million to date.)
• Case Western Reserve University (The Weatherhead School of Management Peter B. Lewis Building, another Gehry design, $36.9 million, out of $61.7 total building cost)
• Marijuana Policy Project (Donated $3,000,000 to MPP in 2007.)
• The Guggenheim Museum ($50 million)
• America Coming Together and MoveOn.org (with George Soros matching his $10 and $2.5 million, respectively)
• American Civil Liberties Union
• The Democratic Party
• MAPS-sponsored MDMA/PTSD Research in the US, Switzerland and Israel $750,000 [www.maps.org]
• Menorah Park (Peter B. Lewis Aquatic & Therapy Center)
• Traction
Lewis is a trustee of Princeton University, former chairman of the board of directors at the Guggenheim Museum (resigned January 19, 2005), and serves on the board of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Although Lewis often gives substantial gifts to artistic and educational organizations, he also has a reputation for — often
forcefully — insisting that such organizations be financially
accountable and financially sound; as of late 2004, Lewis has said he
will no longer give to Case or Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood due to poor leadership and management.[citation needed] He has said that those funds might instead be diverted to Cleveland State University.
Lewis is an advocate of taxing and regulating the use and sale of marijuana and is one of the main financial backers of the recent, partially successful, campaign to legalize the use of marijuana for medical use in the U.S. In January 2000, Mr. Lewis was arrested and charged in New Zealand for possession of marijuana. Lewis pleaded guilty to three charges and paid a substantial fine, though under New Zealand law he was not required to serve time in jail
or prison. According to his lawyer, Marie Dyhrberg, Lewis used the
marijuana on the advice of his doctor for pain relief after the partial
amputation of his leg in 1998.[3]
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Progressive insurance is a travesty and is something no one who seriously understands the importance of insurance (if you have pot to piss in) would ever consider. Name your own price? I don't think that'll work. There are certain things you really shouldn't skimp on and auto insurance is one of them. Skimping on insurance is apparently Progressive's mission statement. Take the money from people who pay a little and when the time comes for coverage there will be none to pay because they didn't get needed coverage. Pretty good scam really.
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Progressive insurance is a travesty and is something no one who seriously understands the importance of insurance (if you have pot to piss in) would ever consider. Name your own price? I don't think that'll work. There are certain things you really shouldn't skimp on and auto insurance is one of them. Skimping on insurance is apparently Progressive's mission statement. Take the money from people who pay a little and when the time comes for coverage there will be none to pay because they didn't get needed coverage. Pretty good scam really.
Or, just come over illegally, y no necessitas insurance para la auto!
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