What's behind the name,

OFF THE WIRE
Source: Monica Sanders, Virginia

Progressive Insurance: nothing more than a Marxist front for liberals
December 7th, 2010
I know everyone has seen and laughed at these commercials, but to steal a line from Paul Harvey, “Now, for the rest of the story!”
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, one of the major funders of leftist causes in America .
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.
Lewis also gave $12.5 million to MoveOn.org and America Coming Together, two key propaganda arms of the socialist left. His funding for these groups was conditional on matching contributions from George Soros, the America-hating socialist and chief financier of the Obama political machine.
Lewis made a fortune as a result of capitalism, but now finances a progressive movement that threatens to destroy the American free enterprise system.
Peter Lewis is making a fortune off of conservative Americans so that he can help dismantle the very system that made him wealthy. He’s banking on no one finding out who he is.
Please boycott Progressive Insurance! Let’s get the word out!
Comment by American Grand Jury:
I’ve known about Progressive for many years now. In my younger years I tried to get a job there. They have a very “heavy” screening process. You could just tell there was something strange about this company. The questions they asked were very liberal oriented. A bunch of communists work at Progressive. The founder’s original plan I think was to form a company that would sell mostly to liberals (their rates are very high) and bilk the money out of the economy to funnel back into subversive organizations.

You should never buy anything from Progressive Insurance if you believe in freedom.
There are plenty of good American companies that sell auto insurance that beat the rates and the service offered by Progressive.

I believe in freedom.
Lewis has donated hundreds of millions to many causes, not all bad.
He is an advocate to legalizing marijuana (3 million to the Marijuana Policy Project in 2007) , 7 million and 8 million in 2001 and 2003 to the ACLU (the Trust for the Bill of Rights) 5 million of which he stipulated in his 2001 donation to go to to the ACLU's drug policy litigation project which deals with drug testing in schools and medical marijuana.
My point is there are good people on the left as well as the right.
Below is the snopes entry on Peter Lewis, decide for yourself.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/peterlewis.asp

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