Posted on 08/26/2017 8:53:44 AM PDT by conservative98
One of the biggest NASCAR sponsors lobbied to have the event moved. Camping World Chairman and CEO Marcus Lemonis wrote in a letter dated for Tuesday that neither he nor anyone from Camping World would participate in an event at any Trump property "due to recent and ongoing blatantly bigoted and racist comments from Donald Trump in regards to immigrants of the United States."
Trump has made several comments about immigrants while on the campaign trail.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best," Trump said when announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination last month. "They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
An immigrant from Lebanon, Lemonis has seen success as the owner of Camping World and other businesses. He is the star of the CNBC show "The Profit" where he invests in struggling businesses.
"Our company will not stand to support any person or organization that associates with such beliefs, and we feel strongly about distancing ourselves from any negative and discriminatory comments made against any gender, ethnicity, age group or so forth," Lemonis wrote. "I would hope that the entire NASCAR organization would agree with my sentiments."
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
"...and some of them, I assume, are good people."
Ah yes, a blast from the past, and an oh-so-convenient omission in the "reporting", which exposed it as aught but clumsy propaganda.
Camping World deserves the loss of revenue that's coming...
OK, Camping World is off the list for RVs and stuff.
Yep July 4, 2015. I wish more would notice this.
Who is Camping World's main competition? I think we should all volunteer time and $$ to advertise!
Thank you! I agree.
Where?
Fidel Castro did this when he opened the doors to his prisons.
This is one sponsor, not NASCAR in general.
A very misleading headline.
Mr. Lemonis, go back to your hellhole of Lebanon, and stop trying to turn this great country into an offshoot of the crap you escaped from.
Political correctness = death
Sorry.
I meant that business-wise, not as a threat. Post in haste, and all that.
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Scew NASCAR!
Let’s see how many of ‘Mexico’s Finest Illegal Aliens’ pay to watch their races—
nascar
I thought they were rather right-leaning.
You might want to add that the article is two years old.........
“Lets see how many of Mexicos Finest Illegal Aliens pay to watch their races”
They prefer rooster fighting.
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I gave up on major American car racing years ago. IndyCar and NASCAR are both a joke. Small track racing is where the heart of American car racing remains. As for the big boys F1 is head and shoulders above our two racing leagues.
[Wasn’t he the CEO who said that he didn’t want people who voted for and/or supported President Trump to shop at his businesses?]
He’s the one. Someone, please post a his picture with that quote so we can be reminded again and again.
Just another liberal blood sucking leach. You forgot who your customers are. They have a choice now, Trump or a blood sucking liberal. Nate Silver has Trump 98% probability of winning.
You are the hose they put into RV poop tanks to suck out the traveler’s waste.
Any of your campsites named after Confederate Generals? After Confederate victories? After Southern cooking? After anyone who owned a slave?
I will not visit CampingWorld sites or any of the business that you stole on the television show you have.
Join the John McCain avoid list.
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