Posted on 10/13/2019 9:56:19 AM PDT by nwrep
Portland ice cream company Salt & Straw today pulled its products from Provenance Hotels, the Portland-based chain founded by embattled U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland. "After much consideration, we have made a decision to end our wholesale business with Provenance Hotels," Salt & Straw said in a statement provided to WW. "We are very thoughtful with our relationships and, after seven years, have determined it is best to go in a different direction."
Oregon Public Broadcasting first reported Salt & Straw's decision. OPB noted that Salt & Straw provided products to Provenance hotels like the Dossier, where guests could order artisanal ice cream via room service.
On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Earl Bluenanauer called for a boycott of Provenance Hotels, because of its link to Sondland. (Sondland stepped down as CEO when Trump appointed him as an ambassador.)
Jim McDermott, a Portland attorney who represents Sondland, decried the boycott call. "Congressman Blumenauer's irresponsible attempt to hurt a homegrown business that supports hundreds of jobs in our local economy is just shameful and ought to outrage all Oregonians," McDermott said Wednesday evening.
Childish
This is why they want Trump’s tax returns, so they can blackmail all his business partners into severing ties to hime.
“Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.”
With an adult, only a bullet in the head seems to work. You can't rewire Stupid.
Didn’t children take their ball and go home?
May the suicide of Salt & Straw’s business be painful, comprehensive, and permanent.
Oh, hell, no more artisanal ice cream for me. My world is shattered.
High Carb full of processed poison, it won’t be missed.
Just a bit of speculation: Probably not a very large customer — the loss of revenue was more than compensated by the opportunity for publicity through virtue signaling.
Let the mass melting of ice cream begin!! Hot words are able to do a lot of damage.
Maybe people who stayed at Provenance Hotels in Portland realized the ice cream was from a loony left shop and refused to buy it.....
ALERT!! VIRTUE SIGNALING outbreak.
So lemme get this straight, they are refusing to ‘bake the cake’ and discriminating against someone.
Let us hope and pray they go Bankrupt from their Public Display of Petulance.
When I choose a hotel I first ask...”what about the ice cream?”
We have decided to politicize ice cream. It being one of the great “causes of childhood obesity,” I’m surprised dems haven’t moved to overtax or ban it. But this explains the disconnect.
Clash of the Special Left Coast People.
*yawn*
Really, not doing business because of politics? I don’t care if my clients are Communist, Libertarian, Left of Center or Apolitical... I care about green... not if they are AntiTrump or ProTrump..
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