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From: Not.fucking.likely@NoWay.com

Ubiquitous  wrote in news:pfbq6c$3r8$2@dont-email.me:

> Two weeks ago, Parkland gun control activist David Hogg turned his
> boycott machine on Florida's most beloved grocery store chain,
> Publix, after reports that the company had donated $670,000 over the
> last three years to NRA-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate
> Adam Putnam. Using some fuzzy math and threatening a boycott and
> demonstrations, Hogg issued the following demand:
>
>      I call on @Publix to donate double the money they gave
>      to Putman to the Stoneman Douglas Victims fund, $1,000,000.
>      And never support an A rated NRA politician again.
>      — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 24, 2018
>
> So how is Hogg's campaign against Publix going? Well, as the
> Washington Times' Valerie Richardson confirmed on Wednesday, Hogg
> "might not want to hold his breath" waiting for that $1 million
> donation. Meanwhile, the Democrats have come out on the losing end
> of Publix's decision to get out of the political donation business.
>
> This week, Richardson reached out to Publix to find out how that
> Hogg-demanded donation was going and found that the grocery store
> apparently has no plans to acquiesce — but they are committed to
> continuing to do what they so often do: help suffering communities.
>
> "While we have not contributed to the GoFundMe account, on April 3,
> more than 65 Publix associates, including our CEO & President [Todd
> Jones], spent our Publix Serves Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas,"
> Publix spokeswoman Nicole Krauss said in an email.
>
> "We worked on several projects that were funded by Publix, including
> an herb/vegetable garden for the culinary program, beautification of
> common grounds and sodding, and landscaping a new yoga/meditation
> area for the students," said Krauss. "We hoped our efforts would
> help the students find comfort in each other and a peaceful place to
> reflect and meditate."
>
> In response to gun control activists staging "die-ins" at some of
> their stores at Hogg's direction, Publix decided it was done with
> doling out political contributions altogether. The hardest hit by
> the move, however, was likely not NRA-backed Republicans, but NRA-
> opposing Democrats.
>
> While Publix gave $670,000 to Putnam's campaign, it has given some
> $760,000 to Democrats since 2008. Richardson provided some more
> details in a May 27 report:
>
>      They include multiple members of the Black Congressional
>      Caucus, former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie
>      Wasserman Schultz, and Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado,
>      Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota,
>      Patty Murray of Washington, Bill Nelson of Florida, and
>      Ron Wyden of Oregon ...
>
>      ... [they] also chipped in for presidential candidates
>      former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernard
>      Sanders in 2016, as well as then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008.
>
> As Ryan Saavedra pointed out, Florida Today suggested that Putnam
> has in fact come out as one of the biggest winners of Hogg's
> boycott:
>
>      It's hard to calculate the media exposure, statewide and
>      nationally, that came his campaign's way. If you didn't
>      know anything about him before, you probably know more
>      about him now. If anything else, out of allegiance to
>      Publix, Putnam's campaign likely will be goosed some
>      because of the controversy.
>
>
> "The newspaper also listed that one of the biggest losers to come
> out of Hogg's boycott is anyone who is running against Putnam,
> including other Republicans, because of the amount of media exposure
> he has received," wrote Saavedra.
>
>

What a feeaking amature Hogg is. And even more amaturish is the left
letting this amuck loose without a savvy handler.

His usefullness to the cause is diminishing. No one cares to be lectured
to about life choices by a snot nosed 17 yo. He may end up in a fatal
accident or better yet be shot if he becomes to much of a liability. At
least if he is shot the left can have a cry in over the corpse. Hey
Hoggy, I'd be careful if I were you.

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