Ben & Jerry unveil new flavor, voter registration push in NC

WRAL ^ | 5/17/2016 | uncredited

[RightGeek]

DURHAM, N.C. — Ice cream innovators Ben & Jerry were in North Carolina Tuesday to launch a drive to increase voter registration and participation.

Ben & Jerry's co-founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield visited North Carolina Central University in Durham to launch a national campaign that includes a new ice cream flavor, Empower Mint.

The liberal entrepreneurs are working with the North Carolina NAACP and others in an effort to promote the importance of Congress reauthorizing the Voting Rights Act and working to remove the influence of big money in politics.

"We're here today with Rev. Barber and many others to stand up for the right to participate in our democracy, a right that so many people fought and died for," Cohen said in a statement, referring to state NAACP President William Barber. "Since our country's inception, many brave Americans have battled to expand voting rights and voter access for African-Americans, for women and young people, but the recent passage of restrictive policies in North Carolina takes our country backwards."

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[Buckeye McFrog]

Boy, Rosie Grier has sure let himself go...

[NativeSon]

the usual Mr. Creosote?

[longfellow]

Breyers ice cream is better.

[twister881]

Trans-Gelato

[MUDDOG]

Chunky Monkey must’ve been named after Barber.

[KosmicKitty]

Just going to say that :-)

[Impala64ssa]

I suppose Ben Cohen will change his name to MARTY Cohen to show solidarity with the LGBT struggle?(a little Spanish lingo) Seriously you couldn't pay me the outrageous prices to eat that slop they call ice cream, ever since they showed support for mumia abu jamal, Cohen says he only did it as a "private" individual, nothing to do with his company. Honky Please! I'm surprised they didn't release a new flavor, like, Mumia Mango Madness or Off the PIGstacio. More recently they sold hands up dont shoot t-shirts. Surprised they didn't come out with a flavor for that, Michael Brown Sugar?

[Blue Jays]

"...I wish they’d introduce Im-Peach-Mint before Obama escapes office..."

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Send that bold new flavor to them as a new product idea!
Plus some leftist drone at their HQ will have to read it. LOL. :-)

[A_Former_Democrat]

They’ve “paid” at least in this household. Used to love Cherry Garcia, then learned of these jerkovs politics

That was the end of that

[Impala64ssa]

I KNEW this guy looked familiar

HEY HEY HEY!!

[snarkpup]

So is the NEW FLAVOR FREE to ALL who eat it????

It would be free to all—until the supply runs out, which would be immediately.

[MagnoliaB]

They don’t call him that for nothing. I’ve heard he has to take his own reinforced chair with him when he goes to restaurants. Regular chairs at restaurants won’t hold all that.

[packrat35]

Guess no one called them yet on being corporate sell outs. They sold the company for big bucks to Unilever and are not in charge anymore.

[MeanWestTexan]

S'More GubMint

[KC_Conspirator]

How about a flavor named Big Govern Mint.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I’ve always heard how good Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is but I’ll never find out. There’s no way that I’ll ever purchase any, because of “activist” crap such as this.

The company may be owned by Unilever but they’re still the same Marxist agitators they always were. No thanks, I’ll pass.

[Banjoguy]

DON’T buy the ice cream. That’s an order.

[longtermmemmory]

what if the ice cream self identifies as a “salad”?

[SFConservative]

LOL!! Hands down winner!

[wbill]

Locals around here call him "Barber the Buffet Slayer".

He's every bit as greasy and reprehensible as he looks.