Posted on 06/05/2018 5:38:24 AM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001
Publix was on the receiving end of Hogg’s latest stab at fascist activism thanks to the company’s previous financial support for Adam Putnam, Florida’s agriculture commissioner and a candidate for the GOP nomination for governor who is proud of the support he gets from the National Rifle Association.
In a Twitter post published a week before Friday’s demonstrations, Hogg demanded a payment of $1 million from the supermarket chain to make up for its support of Putnam — and tried to extort a humiliating promise from Publix to make its politics conform to a teenage liberal’s demands.
I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave to Putman to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000. And never support an A rated NRA politician again.
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 24, 2018
While the supermarket chain tried to wiggle its way out of the protests by announcing it would stop all political donations, turning over what would amount to a $1 million extortion payment wasn’t going to be in the cards. (It’s not like the fund needs money anyway. According to Orlando Weekly, it’s already collected some $8.7 million.)
This week, Fred Guttenberg, a Hogg ally and the father of 14-year-old Parkland victim Jaime Guttenberg, published a series of Twitter posts recounting how Publix CEO Ted Jones had informed him on Tuesday that the company wasn’t going to be victimized by a shakedown scheme.
Jones cited Friday’s “die-ins” at two Florida locations as the reason, according to Gutttenberg. That would make sense to anyone who knows that an extortionist who finds a victim willing to pay will only keep demanding more, but Guttenberg proclaimed that he was shocked.
“He had the gall to say to me that because the die in made this so political that he would not be able to come down here to meet with the Parkland kids and families, as a reminder we are customers, and that Publix would not be making any donation to the victims fund,” Guttenberg wrote.
Bottom line is that it all comes down to the almighty dollar. Good for Publix for not bending over backwards to these clowns.
Ping.
It’s Todd. Not Ted.
Great for Publix.
They grew cojones and faced the cojone-less and brainless future democrat politician (but I am redundant) .
Hogg is sooooo loser.
I agreed with others who believed Hogg’s scheme was extortion. And his father was a law enforcement officer!
Yup. Publix agreed to stop making political contributions because of the whiny little Hitler Youth. When they cowboy up and resume donating to candidates who make sense, we’ll go back to shopping at Publix. Half measures don’t count.
Yep...they should have simply IGNORED him. I suspect that majority of those mad at Publix won’t even know that they finally stood their ground here.
Someone needs to come forward and tell the true story of Media Hogg and where he was on the day of the shooting. The different versions of his “survival” don’t add up.
How is this not extortion?!?
Thanks. I am working off my phone or I would have checked the spelling.
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