A resignation and call to conscience at company owned by Maga billionaires

[erronis]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/30/uline-worker-resigns

Uline employee says she can no longer work for people who helped 'America descend into fascism'

When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump's 2024 election and other Maga Republicans, she did not hold back.

"As America descends rapidly into fascism," Wittmann wrote in a two-page company-wide email sent on Wednesday, "I can no longer work to grow the personal fortunes of people who helped make it so."

Working for the multibillion-dollar privately held company had become untenable for the 32-year-old Canadian in the aftermath of the recent killing of Renee Good, a mother, and Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, by border patrol agents in Minneapolis, she told the Guardian in an interview.

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In a disclaimer included in the letter, she said her statements about Liz and Dick Uihlein, the company's founders and owners, were based on her own opinion, and that all claims about their political relationships and donations are alleged. She urged people to Google their record.

"The most insidious form of evil is that which hides behind outward decorum, concealing the violence of its intent behind written policy, monetary donations, and old-fashioned principle. It's easy to see the evil of those who are outwardly violent, tactless, and crude, but it's harder to see the evil of the frail old man and his wife, who comes around once a year to rearrange our paintings," she wrote.

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More from The Guardian in 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/15/trump-republicans-election-defeat-club-for-growth

A Wikipedia page on the delightful couple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_and_Elizabeth_Uihlein

[UpInArms]

1. The Uihlein family is EVIL

Meet The Billionaire Couple Pumping Their Fortune Into Right-Wing Politics

In the last election cycle, the Uihleins put more than $70 million into various conservative causes. Thirty million went into Restoration PAC and Americas PAC, which in turn spent $18 million trying to get Donald Trump reelected. Another $27 million went to the free market-oriented Club for Growth super PAC, a favorite of fellow billionaire megadonor Jeff Yass.

The Uihleins’ passion for politics permeates their business, too—even company catalogs. In between praise for her employees and listings for boxes and bubble wrap, Elizabeth Uihlein poses provocative questions: Is America in decline? Is China taking over? Are we spending too much on welfare programs? “Your family, your house, your yard, your own little corner of the world—these are things you can control and make better,” she wrote in one letter. “You can’t fix everything—the world’s problems are big.” But with enough money, you sure can try.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Good people are not happy at Palantir, either.

Even Palantir Staff Are Now Disgusted With ICE

https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-employees-ice

Good people don’t like fascism.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

3. The Uihleins have been GOP donors for decades

Laura Wittmann is just now realizing this? Why did she ever go to work for them?

[chowder66]

6. Not everyone follows politics or follows politics closely.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

9. Liz Uihlein has a page in every Uline catalog,

where she spews her right-wing garbage. There's no way she could not have known all this.

[chowder66]

12. Wow. I didn't know that.

I should have finished the article but am at work.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

14. Maybe they paid Laura well enough

to overlook it because it didn't affect her job there...

[chowder66]

15. It seems they do pay above average per the article.

She says it's probably more about compliance than not or something to that effect.

[H2O Man]

13. Call it mere

speculation on my part, but it is possible that it is similar to Marginally Taylor Greene resigning from the House, after she checked her bank account to see how much she made on what would be "insider trading" by you or I. AOC said Greene made $6 million on weapons investments. I suspect both could afford a comfortable life boat to leave the sinking ship of this administration.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Last year, I needed special-sized boxes for my move to Costa Rica and I looked at Uline. Then my son told me

what an awful family owned them. So I spent $460 with Uhaul and others.

[MagickMuffin]

5. They are all over industries that rely on various industrial products

I was searching for 3" lids for an art project and uline was everywhere. Of course I would never spend my money with fascists so I look elsewhere.

[PhylliPretzel]

7. When the Uline catalog arrives in the mail

each year, it goes directly into the recycle bin. How they found our little company's info is unknown, but we would never purchase from them.

[randr]

8. Ditto, I always look forward to the moment

[Figarosmom]

10. Their company is one of the worse

In brainwashing of their employees.

Big Jesus freaks.

[progressoid]

11. And their products are over priced

I used to buy supplies for a small company. U-line catalog would often have what we wanted but I could get it locally for a lot less.