Posted on 05/04/2010 12:40:14 PM PDT by william clark
Protestors pushing a boycott against the state of Arizona in reaction to a new immigration law there have taken their fight to the AriZona Beverage Company—apparently without realizing that the company is based in New York.
The new law, which will allow state police to request citizenship papers from people they believe could be illegal immigrants, has sparked broad outrage and led to calls to boycott Arizona-based companies.
AriZona Beverage Company, however, was founded by two men from Brooklyn—Don Vultaggio and John Ferolito—in 1992. Its headquarters have been on Long Island for the past 16 years. The company's Web site explains the name—it borrows from the design motif from one of the founders' Southwestern-inspired house in Queens.
"We are very proud to be an American company with roots in New York," founder and chairman Vultaggio said in a statement on the company's Web site.
The NY Daily News quoted Tweets from protestors upset with the company, such as this one from Travis Nichols in Chicago: "It is the drink of fascists."
But it appears Vultaggio's comments have already struck a chord with consumers, as some quickly came to the company’s defense.
A handful of recent Tweets cite the company's New York roots, and a note by Jennifer Norwood of Savannah, Ga., said, "Everything everyone wants to boycott makes me want it even more. Gonna fill up on BP [BP 51.11 0.92 (+1.83%) ] gasoline & buy a case of Arizona iced tea."
Other companies that have been identified in the protests are Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways [LCC 6.83 -0.56 (-7.58%) ] and Phoenix-based PetSmart [PETM 33.09 -0.79 (-2.33%) ].
I guess they have the smarts of a brick....
DUH....
“Protestors Target AriZona Iced Tea—Which Is Based in NY”
Apparently “Made in New York” is not written on the cans in Spanish.
I don't think any of these protesters will be bringing the potato salad to the MENSA picnic this summer.
NEW YORK CITY!?!
Git a rope.
LOL...nor the chicken salad for that matter.
Let’s don’t tell the any different.
Idiots
Nothing wrong with New York City... and they have taken the brunt of terrorism.
Nothing wrong with Arizona either.
So if we now see a group of protesters at a flagstaff we’ll know why.
Don't worry, liberal idiots never let the facts stand in their way!
Tea Partiers !!!!!!!! Drink Arizona Tea !!!!!
Even though it’s not from the state, the name goes a loooooong way !!!!!!
What the rocket scientists of the left do not understand is that two can play that game and considering that 7 out of 10 people in this country support what Arizona is doing they are going to lose.
What all the Marxists, the MSM, the race warriors and the Corruptocrats do not seem to realize is that the sleeping giant is awake-it is no longer listening to their siren song of “liberalism” in all of it’s forms. It isn’t buying their newspapers and magazines, it isn’t watching their leftist propaganda riddled TV shows and movies. It is no longer buying into their agendas. All their tossing of The Race Card(TM), boycotts and demonization of the (formerly) sleeping giant is doing is to make the giant angry. They think that their increasingly shrill screeching will intimidate the giant back to sleep. It isn’t working and that is what is beginning to frighten them because they know that their only hope in succeeding is to put the giant back to sleep before it squashes them like the cockroaches they are.
What the rocket scientists of the left do not understand is that two can play that game and considering that 7 out of 10 people in this country support what Arizona is doing they are going to lose.
What all the Marxists, the MSM, the race warriors and the Corruptocrats do not seem to realize is that the sleeping giant is awake-it is no longer listening to their siren song of “liberalism” in all of it’s forms. It isn’t buying their newspapers and magazines, it isn’t watching their leftist propaganda riddled TV shows and movies. It is no longer buying into their agendas. All their tossing of The Race Card(TM), boycotts and demonization of the (formerly) sleeping giant is doing is to make the giant angry. They think that their increasingly shrill screeching will intimidate the giant back to sleep. It isn’t working and that is what is beginning to frighten them because they know that their only hope in succeeding is to put the giant back to sleep before it squashes them like the cockroaches they are.
Grrr...
Sorry about the double post.
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