So much for Publix, another business whose top brass has no backbone!
All protestors should have been arrested for interfering with normal business. Instead, Publix’s “leaders” caved-in.
The United States is well on it’s way to becoming a banana republic, where laws are not upheld. Anyway, there are plenty of other shopping options for consumers. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: HuffPost
Protests prompted supermarket chain Publix to suspend all political contributions after it was revealed to have given more than half a million dollars to a Florida Republican who called himself a “proud NRA sellout.”
Publix was found to have given $670,000 in donations over the past three years to Adam Putnam, Florida’s current agriculture commissioner, who is now running for governor. But in Florida, where a school shooter in Parkland killed 17 people earlier this year, many locals aren’t about to let a National Rifle Association “sellout” run their state.
On Wednesday, Parkland shooting survivor and gun-control activist David Hogg issued a call on Twitter for people to stage a “die in” at the grocery store, which has locations throughout the Southeast.
Prior to the demonstration, Publix issued a statement expressing “regret” that its political contributions had led to an “unintentional customer divide.” On Friday, it released a new statement saying it would be suspending political contributions.
“We would never knowingly disappoint our customers or the communities we serve,” the company said in a statement provided to HuffPost. “As a result, we decided earlier this week to suspend corporate-funded political contributions as we reevaluate our giving processes.”
The same day, Hogg attended a protest at a Coral Springs Publix, where he and supporters lay on the floor for 12 minutes.
“USA over NRA!” the activists chanted at one point.
“Suspended means nothing,” Ryan Deitsch, a March for Our Lives activist at the Coral Springs store, told the Sun Sentinel. “Publix knows we’re not going away.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
Just read another article saying just the opposite, Huff Post was not reliable in the past.
You’re right. Huff Post is not reliable. I’m going to look into this further. Thanks for your input.
Kid is to them all. This is how laws are changed. This is why we still don’t have shootouts at the OK Corral. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it twice…This is the Dawn of a New Consciousness.
-Ghostrider Consciousness….that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
There are no OK Corrals. Now the shootings are in schools, airports, concert venues, etc. – locations where guns are not permitted. Banning guns is like banning bullets; it will never happen. It all boils down to parenting, yet somehow, the parents of these kids are always off the hook.