This self serving bitch has led the boycott sheep which all started with her boycott of Ivaka Trump line and has mushroomed against all that supported Trump
technology-and-media-marketing specialist Shannon Coulter created the hashtag #GrabYourWallet to encourage consumers to boycott businesses that carry Ivanka Trump’s clothing and accessories lines. And now that a Trump administration is imminent, Coulter and others are encouraging critics of the president-elect to put their money where their mouths are. An updated spreadsheet has been circulating on Twitter listing the retailers that do business with the Trump family, along with contact information their customer-relations departments. These include major retailers like Amazon, Macy’s, Marshalls, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s, and Lord and Taylor, all of which carry the Ivanka Trump collection. The spreadsheet also lists other companies to consider boycotting, including People magazine, which has been active in normalizing the Trump family despite the fact that the president-elect allegedly sexually assaulted one of its writers, andNew Balance, which has expressed public support for Trump. #GrabYourWallet saw its first victory a few days ago, when Shoes.com became the first retailer to dump Trump products as a result of the boycott.
Popular retailer L.L. Bean is pushing back against a social media-fueled call for consumers to consider boycotting its products on Tuesday because one of its owners donated money to help elect Donald Trump. The Maine-based company posted a message on its Facebook page asking that it be removed from a list of companies compiled by #Grabyourwallet, which seeks to discourage people from buying products from brand names tied to Trump. The outdoor apparel maker became the subject of unwanted publicity in recent days after it was learned that Linda Bean, one of 50 co-owners and a member of the founding Bean family, donated $60,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee.
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Popular retailer L.L. Bean is pushing back against a social media-fueled call to boycott its products on Tuesday because one of its owners donated money to help elect Donald Trump. The company's flagship store in Freeport, Maine, is seen above
Linda Bean is the granddaughter of Leon Leonwood Bean, the founder of his namesake company. She is also on L.L. Bean’s board of directors, according to Bloomberg News. Bean’s contribution to Making America Great Again LLC far exceeds the $5,000 limit for individual contributors mandated by the Federal Election Commission, according to the Portland Press Herald.
The PAC received a letter from the FEC warning that it could face an audit if it did not respond to the letter. The PAC then took steps to register as a super PAC, meaning that it could raise unlimited funds.
Linda Bean (left), the granddaughter of company founder Leon Leonwood Bean (right), is one of 50 co-owners of the family-run company. Last week, it was learned that she donated $60,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee
Making America Great Again LLC is also known as Making Maine Great Again, according to the Press Herald. The money it raised from contributors like Linda Bean were used for signs and ads on Facebook and radio urging voters to support Trump.
When news of Bean's (left) contribution became public, Grab Your Wallet, an Internet-based campaign co-founded by Shannon Coulter (right), asked consumers to consider boycotting L.L. Bean
Bean’s contributions drew the ire of Grab Your Wallet, an Internet-based campaign to call attention to corporate entities that have profited from doing business with either Trump or his daughter, Ivanka. Shawn Gorman, L.L. Bean’s executive chairman, posted a note on Facebook insisting that Linda Bean’s individual contribution was made on her own behalf and not that of the company.
Shannon Coulter, a co-founder of Grab Your Wallet, responded to Gorman by saying that she would be 'happy to remove L.L. Bean from the list once your board is no longer using my hard-earned money to fund rise of guys like Donald [Trump]'
‘L.L.Bean does not endorse political candidates, take positions on political matters, or make political contributions,’ Gorman wrote. ‘Simply put, we stay out of politics. To be included in this boycott campaign is simply misguided, and we respectfully request that Grab Your Wallet reverse its position.’ Shannon Coulter, a co-founder of Grab Your Wallet, responded to Gorman by saying that she would be 'happy to remove L.L. Bean from the list once your board is no longer using my hard-earned money to fund rise of guys like Donald [Trump].' The campaign was launched by Coulter and Sue Atencio in response to the so-called ‘p***ygate scandal’ this past October, when video recordings of Trump making remarks about groping women by their genitals became public.
Grab Your Wallet, which was launched in response to 'p***ygate,' wants to discourage buying from companies that do business with Donald Trump (left) and his daughter, Ivanka (right)
Among the companies that are targeted by Grab Your Wallet are Amazon (left), Bloomingdale's (center), and Bed Bath & Beyond (right)
‘The #GrabYourWallet boycott began October 11, 2016 in the wake of the Trump Tapes when a brand strategist and a grandmother simultaneously realized they could no longer in good conscience shop at retailers that do business with the Trump family,’ the Grab Your Wallet web site reads. ‘Never having met, Shannon Coulter and Sue Atencio immediately joined forces and announced on Twitter they'd be boycotting any retailer that carried Trump products, publishing a short list of such retailers later that same evening.’ The #GrabYourWallet campaign ‘seems to be taking on a life of its own,’ Atencio told CBS News after it was reported that Democratic-leaning women were less likely to buy products bearing Ivanka Trump’s brand. ‘No one wants to punish Ivanka for being his daughter; it’s the surrogate thing.’
The #grabyourwallet hashtag has attracted followers on Twitter, like the one above, who have vowed to stop spending money on L.L. Bean products
'I recently got an L.L. Bean credit card but will be closing my account,' wrote Edvige Giunta (above)
'As long as Linda Bean is on board [of directors], they have made a political statement,' this Twitter user says
Grab Your Wallet lists dozens of companies with business associations with the Trump family, including Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Bloomingdale’s.
It categorizes which companies are deserving of boycotts as well as which firms should be considered for boycotts.
Currently, it has L.L. Bean listed as a company that should be considered for a boycott.
Trump supporters, meanwhile, also encouraged boycotts of entities that were perceived to be supportive of the Democrats and their nominee for president, Hillary Clinton.
Last month, some fans of the hit sci-fi franchise Star Wars said they would boycott the latest installment, Rogue One, after it was claimed that the movie was re-filmed after the election to include anti-Trump themes.
Just a week after Trump’s election, backers of the president-elect vowed to boycott PepsiCo after its CEO, Indra Nooyi, condemned Trump for his remarks about women, according to ThinkProgress.
Trump supporters have also called for boycotts of Amazon, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, also owns The Washington Post, a newspaper that has done a series of exposes on The Donald; Oreos, the cookie maker which operates factories in Mexico; and Netflix, whose documentary about civilian first-responders in Syria, White Helmets, has been accused of spreading pro-Al Qaeda propaganda.