Trump tweet about LL Bean
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Anonymous
| Liberal here who's never t boycotting. If it were something LLBean did, like Hobby Lobby and not covering birth control under its health care plan, then yes. But this is something an owner does privately. I have more trouble with Lands End, which pulled an interview with Gloria Steinem from its catalogs last year. |
Anonymous
Yes, Lands End has had connections to the Posse Comitatus, and its record under Sears for abuses is abysmal. |
Anonymous
Having Maine Govenor Paul Lepage in your political corner can undo years of fabulous marketing, and the best of discounts. |
Anonymous
That PP is talking nonsense. Probably a Trumpster. The most I have seen before is 20% off. |
Anonymous
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We'll more than just DCUM is emailing LL Bean. I emailed them today to let them know that my husband had cancelled his credit card, and we would not be shopping there again until they dumped Linda Bean and put out a statement against the Trump tweet. And got back an email saying that they were responding to and unexpectedly high volume of email over the last couple and it would be 72 hours before the could respond.
Keep making your voices heard. |
Anonymous
| Linda Bean is an heir to her family company. Her sister, Diane, also made a contribution to the same PAC. |
Anonymous
Liberal here: I feel the same way. LL Bean is a decent company that has done a lot to support the local New England economy and contributed a ton to environmental protection efforts. Linda Bean is a looney heiress. She used her own personal, inherited money to fund these odious causes. But it was not official LL Bean profits directly from the company and the tersely worded statements lead me to believe that the rest of the Bean family can't stand her. They may actually have no standing to kick her off the Board, depending on the size of her ownership share and whatever was stipulated in the original patriarch's will. Basically, they are wait for her crazy ass to die off. Don't hurt Maine - where jobs are scarce. All it does is feed into Linda Bean's victim complex. |
Anonymous
I thought Linda changed the name on her contribution to Diane because she was running afoul of campaign finance law? |
Anonymous
I think the report I read indicated her sister Diane also made a contribution. She lives in Ogunquit. But, heh, maybe a little fraud would make everything more interesting. |
Anonymous
You can spend your money however and wherever you want. Other people earned their money and choose to spend their money however and wherever they want. I'm sure many people find some of the things you do and support equally ridiculous and silly. To each his own. |
Anonymous
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Between August and October, Ms. Bean donated $30,000 to a political action committee, originally known as Making America Great Again L.L.C., that backed Mr. Trump, the Republican candidate, according to Federal Election Commission reports.
The group appears to have presented itself as a “super PAC,” an organization that under federal law can accept unlimited donations from any person or business, and it ran ads in Maine attacking Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s Democratic rival. In fact, the group had actually registered as a traditional political action committee — for which contributions are capped at $5,000 — and that made Ms. Bean’s contributions illegal. This month, the Federal Election Commission wrote to the PAC’s treasurer asking for an explanation of the excessive contributions. The group filed paperwork this week changing its name to Making Maine Great Again, while claiming that some of the contributions originally attributed to Ms. Bean actually came from her sister, Diana Bean. The group also told the F.E.C. that it should be registered as a super PAC. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/linda-bean-ll-bean-boycott.html |
Anonymous
What I read was the PAC has refiled its status as Super PAC to make the donation legal. I am wondering how can it be legal for a PAC to file paperwork to be Super PAC after donation is received? Is it not circumventing the law? |
Anonymous
I agree that this is all just capitalism - we make our voices heard through our spending habits. That said, I think this is a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. I'd be more understanding if the entire family was like the Koch's or the Coor's. But it's one stupid family member who is bringing this crap onto the company. And she's nowhere near as big of a spender as the Koch brothers or the Chik-fil-A guy. The ideological rigidity in this case just makes liberals look bad. |
Anonymous
I emailed them. It doesn't have to be a crazy, guns-blazing disavowal stapled to your L.L.Bean backpack, I just said I'm a lifelong customer, my kids wear a lot of it, too, and I'm not necessarily going to boycott, that I understand it's just a board member, but I don't feel like spending my dollars on a company that gives aid or comfort to the incoming looney bin (these were not the exact words I used, obviously). |
Anonymous
My recollection is 20% discount on boots. |