Posted on 08/02/2012 9:37:08 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Not all of the half-million plus people who reportedly visited Chick-fil-A restaurants on August 1st were there to support the company. There were a few folks who stopped by to protest the company. One such protester is Adam M Smith.
Mr. Smith is an Adjunct Lecturer at Eller College in Arizona and he also is the CFO of Vante, a catheter manufacturing company.
Apparently, Adam Smith is not a fan of the head of Chick-fil-A and he decided to let the company know how he felt. Smith sat in the drive through lane of a local franchise, intending to only order “free water” and give the company a piece of his mind.
In the video, initially titled ”Reduce $’s to Chick-Fil-A’s Hate Groups” – these points are worth noting:
•The college students that Smith sees off in the distance and speculates are getting ready to stage a sit-in, were most likely waiting to get into the movie theater they were standing in front of. •He tells the young woman working the window, “This is a horrible corporation with horrible values.” •He also goes out of his way to stress ,”I’m a nice guy, by the way… totally heterosexual. Not a gay in me, I just can’t stand the hate.” Not long after Smith posted the video on YouTube, it was removed.
However, other web users had already spotted the clip, copied it and reposted it, citing the ”Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing United States Entrepreneurship Act of 2007.”
We offer the re-posted video for your viewing pleasure.
Damn cowards!!
Yeah, but all the 9 year old diminutive little girls I know are too mature to bother with this douche.
Mr. Smith is an Obama supporter. (i couldn’t have guessed)
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=smith%2C+adam&state=AZ&zip=&employ=&cand=&c2012=Y&c2010=Y&c2008=Y&sort=N&capcode=c6g7r&submit=Submit+your+Donor+Query
gave 250 to Barry on 5/10/12
Mr. Vogel, the CFO, is one of the “nefarious” signers of the Chamber of Commerce Letters supporting Illegal Immigration (SB 1070)
http://www.phoenixchamber.com/news/ceos-immigration-letter
http://www.vante.com/executives
Looks like little Miss Smith has a boss named Roger Vogel. Maybe Mr. Vogel ought to fire his temper tantrum throwing CFO.
Possibly the most revealing commentary and information re: this reprehensible individual's judgment and capabilities. Thank you for posting.
I doubt it. The company is employee owned and I bet the owners are all academic types, active or not. All live in the same bubble and had no idea of the Mac Truck that was going to come along an smash it after they got so tickled about Smith's amusing little video. Anyway, that's my guess.
I think you mean "mierda."
@cfaelcontucson
twitter address for Rachael’s Chick Fil A
Experience has shown that those in "professional" positions who go and do something as brilliant as this, usually have their careers ended abruptly. I was going to make a note to check on this guy again in a couple of days to see if that's the case, but as you have confirmed his profile already appears to have gone missing from the U of A website, he seems to be a self-correcting problem. At least one can hope so.
The rationale behind severing ties with such an individual is that it is economic suicide to be publicly associated with a “loose cannon.” There are enough ways to generate unfavorable publicity. Why tempt fate?
Ed Zachary. The unfavorable publicity has just landed in their laps. I’ll offer them the advice that they lose this loose cannon immediately, and I’ll even waive the consulting fee. This time.
Wonder how this doofus professor would like it if conservatives came onto his college campus to berate him about the schools screw-ball values? You think it would cross his mind to say he wasn’t responsible for them?
This could really be a issue for CPS. Who has checked on his children?
Fox News is about to air the video on The Five.
Go to staff search and type in his name,,it still shows his info there.
Needed a bigger cup for all of the employees to spit in first.
So I should speak Spanish rather than John Kerry's French? No matter what, they both mean the same thing, the DemonRATS are full of it!
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/vante-of-tucson-az-regrets-actions-of-former-cfo-1686870.htm
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