"Be Less White Brit"
Posted on 04/01/2021 9:53:56 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Coca-Cola Company chairman and CEO James Quincey said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” that the recently passed Georgia voting law “is wrong and needs to be remedied.”
Quincey said, “Let me get crystal clear and unequivocal this legislation is unacceptable. It is a step backward. It does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity. This is frankly just a step backward. We have spent many decades promoting within Georgia a better society and better environment for business, and this is a step backward. Our position remains the same. This legislation is wrong and needs to be remedied. We’ll continue to advocate in both private and even more clearly in public.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I had a chat with a Coke rep.
11:03:55 AM : Coca-Cola Live Chat: Sheila has joined this session!
11:03:55 AM : Coca-Cola Live Chat: Connected with Sheila. Your reference number for this chat session is 270895.
11:04:00 AM : Sheila: Thank you for contacting Coca-Cola! How may I assist you?
11:05:25 AM : SJ: Why is your British CEO involving your company in something that’s within the constitutional purview of the State of Georgia? Does he think this will increase your market share, or is he just virtue signalling so he can go to the cool cocktail parties?
11:05:50 AM : Sheila: Hi SJ.
11:06:25 AM : Sheila: On March 25, controversial Georgia voting legislation was signed into law. While we are disappointed in the outcome, we don’t see this as the final chapter. Voting is a foundational right in America, and we will continue to work to advance voting rights and access in Georgia and across the country. Throughout Georgia’s legislative session, our Company partnered with a broad coalition to engage with lawmakers from both political parties to express our concerns. As soon as Georgia’s legislature convened this year, our Company joined with other Georgia businesses to share our core principles: We opposed measures that would seek to diminish or restrict voter access and we advocated for broad access, voter convenience, election integrity, and political neutrality. Anything that inhibits these principles can lead to voter suppression. We took these steps because they align to our Purpose and the conscience we follow.
11:06:54 AM : Sheila: Last year, we introduced our first-ever Company Election Day holiday in the U.S. and supported nonpartisan get-out-the-vote campaigns across the country. We will continue to push for greater access to voting through advocacy at the federal level, where we expect to see more proposals this year aimed at expanding voter access. We will also continue to press for improvements to Georgia’s election laws in future sessions.
11:07:18 AM : Sheila: We have never wavered on our point of view and we have, and will continue, to meet with a wide array of stakeholders inside and outside of Georgia to hear their views, work together, and advocate for greater voting access. We will do this because it is the right thing to do and will help create a better shared future for everyone. Voting in our country is a sacred right and duty, and we recognize we have a responsibility to protect it and promote it.
11:08:05 AM : SJ: Nice boilerplate answer. Did your PR department work hard on that?
11:08:45 AM : Sheila: This is the company’s statement.
11:08:50 AM : Sheila: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
11:11:16 AM : SJ: Sure. But seeing as how you’re all such woke leftists at corporate, I’m sure you’ll just want to cancel my response. Your sense of meddling with the political process is reminiscent of the teens and twenties where a certain political movement spread from the South to even here in Denver. Apparently you can’t see the connection.
11:12:21 AM : SJ: Sell soda for God’s sake.
11:12:25 AM : Sheila: I regret any frustration this has caused, and I will be certain to share your displeasure with the appropriate management.
11:12:26 AM : SJ: Stop meddling.
11:12:51 AM : SJ: Is the appropriate management found at the bottom of a trash can?
11:12:56 AM : Sheila: I am happy to pass this along, Stuart.
11:13:25 AM : Sheila: Can I help you with anything else?
11:14:09 AM : SJ: Well, we’re only one family. But we’ll be carefully searching out the Coke galaxy of companies, and fastidiously avoiding any purchases from said companies.
11:14:43 AM : SJ: Good luck with your nasty little ideological bent, Coke!
11:14:51 AM : Sheila: So sorry to hear that.
11:15:11 AM : Sheila: Thank your for sharing your comments. Please feel free to contact us again.
11:15:18 AM : SJ: I don’t think you’re actually sorry. Bye.
11:15:36 AM : Sheila: Goodbye! Have a nice evening!
11:15:41 AM : Coca-Cola Live Chat: Sheila has left this session!
11:15:41 AM : Coca-Cola Live Chat: The session has ended!
They’re always trying to shove something down our throats.
Exactly.
“I had to answer a lot of questions from my daughters, from our employees. They were all in mourning,” PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi told Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times‘ DealBook conference.
not to mention all the carbon dioxide they release. beer, too. they should all be banned in the name of man made global warming theory.
Same here....wife loves Coke, she switched to a generic brand......
No Coke products are allowed in the house....
This WAS the remedy you piece of garbage!
Name a single disenfranchised person or shut up!
Name one!
Name one!
Name one!
He needs to move the company to another part of the country?
And now he has the perfect excuse. I think Baltimore could be a good location.
cue evil laff soundtrack
When DC becomes a state company move there.
Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a jet fuel tax break worth tens of millions of dollars
Wednesday after the company condemned the state’s new law that protects voters from fraud.
"Gov" Stacey Abrams has urged companies not to boycott her home state, arguing that a slowdown of economic activity
could harm the very people the boycott is meant to protect. “Leaving us behind won’t save us,” Abrams wrote in an op-ed.
“So I ask you to bring your business to Georgia and, if you’re already here, stay and fight.”
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What does Georgia have in store for Coca-Cola?
Certain forces are at work playing whack-a-mole with these morons. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if Mr. Quincey tendered his resignation shortly.
Skeletons in the closet maybe?
Bad photo it makes him look like he has gheyface.
"Be Less White Brit"
They hate white people.
I’ll bet he hasn’t read a single word of the law.
The irony for me is the only time I bought coke was the re-imported real coke from Mexico for mixed drinks. It will be hard finding a substitute but I’ll manage by being less white and not buying any coke products.
Another ignorant person speaks on a subject for which they have no basic knowledge and decided to make a comment to appeal to the woke mob.
Buy store brand cola if you buy cola at all.
And if they have any special tax breaks, repeal them.
I’ll bet you a buck all their employees have to swipe in and out with a photo ID.
L
I ws drinking Barq Root Beer (a coca cola roduct). I am now drinking A&W.
i have a few laws i consider “unacceptable” that need to be remedied.
let me use the tactics of the left to get those laws rememdied.
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