Posted on 05/16/2014 9:22:00 AM PDT by ColdOne
First they lost their television show. Now the Benham brothers say they are losing their business.
SunTrust Banks is cutting ties with would-be reality stars David and Jason Benham after liberal activists attacked them for their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage, The Daily Caller has learned.
In a statement provided first to TheDC on Friday, the Benham brothers confirmed that SunTrust Banks has pulled all of its listed properties with the Benham brothers’ bank-owned property business, which includes several franchisees across four states.
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The Tea Party tried today with the “10 Million Conservative March” called American Springs, but only 100 people showed up. Why didn’t they do a better job getting this together. The news shows are having a hay day which normally I don’t care because we don’t deserve it, but today’s results causes us to look horrible.
That wasn't the "TEA Party" that was one guy with a fervid imagination.
Well the news is saying it as well. Doesn’t matter if it is true or not. It is all over Facebook too. I know FREEPERS are not much into Facebook, but it is a tool that is used by a huge percentage of the U.S. as a way to get messages out to vast amounts of people.
One more company I will never willingly do business with
First of all, the number is: 800.SUNTRUST (800.786.8787)
Second, when you call, just keep hitting 0...it'll get you to a person. They WILL RECORD YOUR CALL.
Third, the person who answers will ask you your first and last name. I told the nice, sounded like a white older lady, who answered who I am.
Fourth, I told her calmly but firmly that I was calling about the Benham brothers, and did she know or hear about the situation? She assured me she had.
I told her I was not happy with the way they were treated and that even though I didn't have an account, I spend a lot of time in the south and will let everyone know what kind of company Sun Trust is--that they are against basic Christian beliefs and business with them should be avoided.
Fifth, the lady read to me from a prepared statement (which tells me they are hearing from a lot of us...) that Sun Trust believes in the right of all people to follow their conscience and religious beliefs and in their Constitutional right to protect themselves, etc. etc. etc.
Sixth, and this is what caught my attention, is that this person claimed that a "third party" that was doing business as an intermediary between the bank and the Benham brothers was the one that did the servering--and NOT the Sun Trust bank itself.
She said that Sun Trust was working to get the relationship back on track.
I asked her who was the "third party" but she said she did not know--but said again it was not the doing of Sun Trust.
Again, I did not call yelling and raving, but saying very calmly but firmly this situation is wrong.
I urge any of you who are wanting to do a little bit of phone time today to do so.
I can say that either the woman was a good actor--'cause she seemed sympathetic OR she knew the phone call was being recorded and did not want to get into trouble later.
Let us be peaceful but unyielding on what is right and wrong.
God bless you all.
Agreed! They would be even more richer for that, and rightly so!
It’s called “fascism”.
And since no one is standing up to it, you can expect more of it in the future. :)
Rush just mentioned this. 12 million listeners. I wonder how many are Suntrust customers and pro-life and pro-traditional marriage?
Thanks for that information. I emailed them from the contact us page, but called after I saw your post. The woman I got, who was very nice and had a thick Southern accent claimed she knew nothing about it & asked me what happened!
"SunTrust supports the rights of all Americans to fully exercise their freedoms granted under the Constitution, including those with respect to free speech and freedom of religion.
"Mid-2013, we consolidated the management of certain residential assets with a third party vendor, which has the relationship with Benham Real Estate. While we do not publicly comment on specific vendor relationships, we don’t make choices on suppliers nor base business decisions on political factors, nor do we direct our third party vendors to do so.
"The characterization in the media with respect to this matter is inaccurate. We are contacting our third party supplier who works with Benham Real Estate to clarify our policies."
Think of just how wimpy corporate America has become. It’s time for a shake-up.
“The Brothers should sue the living crap out of them...”
If one business has to bake a cake for a gay wedding, then the other should have to accept straight bank accounts.
[ The Tea Party tried today with the “10 Million Conservative March” called American Springs, but only 100 people showed up. Why didn’t they do a better job getting this together. The news shows are having a hay day which normally I don’t care because we don’t deserve it, but today’s results causes us to look horrible. ]
The “American Spring” was a agtiprop operation designed to get a bunch of tea Partiers in DC then it was going to agitation to discredit the Tea party, the tea party weas smart enough NOT to take the bait...
"Breaking: SunTrust tells me: "We clarified our policies with our vendor and they have reinstated the listings with Benham Real Estate."
Was just going to post that! You must have commented on their website also. I just got my form email.
One of the worst banks in our region. I cannot recall more than one American-born person whose first language is English among the dozens of employees in any of the four or five branches I’ve dealt with over the past four years due to a business connection. It would not have been my choice of bank, in that there have been several time-consuming mismanaged issues as well. I wonder who is actually running SunTrust, and why they are so aggressively interested in foreign-born persons having access to citizen’s financial records?
Sun Trust must have realized how bad this made them look. Just saw this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3156895/posts
Thanks for that kristinn.
Do you think Sun Trust will work with Benham again?
This afternoon they said they’ve reversed the decision.
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