Senator Asks Firm to Pull Greeting Card Off Shelves

A state lawmaker has asked a Burbank greeting card company to withdraw a card from stores that he says is demeaning to victims of sexual assault and to women.

The card, printed by The Thought Factory card company, has a drawing of a police officer and says: “Prevent sexual assault. Cooperate.”

Sen. Dan McCorquodale (D-San Jose), who noticed the card while browsing in a Santa Clara County store, said this week that he “immediately saw red.”

Debra Pierson, sales manager for The Thought Factory, said the firm no longer sells the card “because we did feel it was offensive. . . . It had been brought to our attention.”

But Pierson said the company does not plan to remove the card from retail stores because “we never had that big a distribution of it. I can’t tell them (the stores) to pull it. . . . I don’t get into that kind of form of censorship.”