Lee-Bro
Senior Member
As a spin off from the "Experience at a local music store"...
We started to discuss how putting your political, religious, etc related view out in the public can be hurtful, to your business, especially if those view are polarizing or tend to be to the far end of the spectrum.
As a Financial Advisor, I have a regulatory requirement for me to disclose things such as client gifts, potential conflicts of interest, outside businesses, and political contributions. I have had clients look up my voter registration and ask me about it or tell me they were happy I'm registered the way I am. I've also had some of my clients who are elected officials ask me to contribute to their election fund. I tell them I don't contribute (I give "that" money to homeless shelters or a food bank) and am registered w/ a political party because Kentucky has a closed primary system and I want to vote in the primaries. I've never given a cent to a political campaign because I'd rather give it to a charity.
There are searchable databases out there where you can see who has contributed how much to whom, this is not new. What I have seen in recent years is that I have friends in their search for hiring contractors use these databases to see if the contractors or company leaders they hire have contributed to candidates/political parties they don't care for. I don't want to say it'll never happen to musicians, because never say never and you never know. It probably won't because musicians don't have any money to begin with. ;-)
We started to discuss how putting your political, religious, etc related view out in the public can be hurtful, to your business, especially if those view are polarizing or tend to be to the far end of the spectrum.
As a Financial Advisor, I have a regulatory requirement for me to disclose things such as client gifts, potential conflicts of interest, outside businesses, and political contributions. I have had clients look up my voter registration and ask me about it or tell me they were happy I'm registered the way I am. I've also had some of my clients who are elected officials ask me to contribute to their election fund. I tell them I don't contribute (I give "that" money to homeless shelters or a food bank) and am registered w/ a political party because Kentucky has a closed primary system and I want to vote in the primaries. I've never given a cent to a political campaign because I'd rather give it to a charity.
There are searchable databases out there where you can see who has contributed how much to whom, this is not new. What I have seen in recent years is that I have friends in their search for hiring contractors use these databases to see if the contractors or company leaders they hire have contributed to candidates/political parties they don't care for. I don't want to say it'll never happen to musicians, because never say never and you never know. It probably won't because musicians don't have any money to begin with. ;-)