{"id":399,"date":"2023-01-16T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=399"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:41:24","slug":"aoc-tried-to-boycott-a-major-company-but-their-sales-went-straight-through-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"AOC Tried To Boycott A Major Company But Their Sales Went Straight Through The Roof\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is just amazing and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll remember when\u00a0<strong>AOC<\/strong>\u00a0tried to cancel\u00a0<strong>Goya Foods<\/strong>\u00a0because their CEO,\u00a0<strong>Bob Unanue<\/strong>, dared to utter, \u201c<strong><em>We\u2019re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and in the same sentence also had the audacity to invoke God and prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goya Foods<\/strong>&nbsp;is America\u2019s largest Hispanic-owned food company, according to the company itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Julian Castro,<\/strong>&nbsp;former Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Obama administration,&nbsp; led the charge to boycott Goya after that offensively patriotic statement with the very stupid hashtag&nbsp;<strong>#Goyaway.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>He tweets that Goya Foods\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong>has been a staple of so many Latino households for generations. Now their CEO, Bob Unanue, is praising a president who villainizes and maliciously attacks Latinos for political gain. Americans should think twice before buying their products.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh look, it\u2019s the sound of me Googling \u201chow to make your own Adobo\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YOScAcyAnC\">https:\/\/t.co\/YOScAcyAnC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1281383352315125762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to her focus on finding alternative recipes from the Goya-supplied products, she drew attention to what Unanue said about Trump and what it meant for Latinos in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately for AOC, her boycott did not gain the traction she hoped. Instead,&nbsp;<strong>Goya<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>sales grew exponentially<\/strong>. So much in fact that&nbsp;<strong>Unanue<\/strong>&nbsp;named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<strong><em>&nbsp;\u201cemployee of the month\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong>after she called for Americans to boycott his company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Unanue made the announcement during \u201cThe Michael Berry Show\u201d, saying,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cWhen she boycotted us, our sales actually increased 1,000%, so we gave her an honorary \u2014 we never were able to hand it to her \u2014 but she got employee of the month for bringing attention to Goya and our adobo.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And that, ladies and gents, is the best thing you\u2019ll read on the internet today!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More details of this story from AWM:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s daughter, Ivanka, also started promoting Goya Foods following her dad\u2019s meeting with the company\u2019s CEO. She shared an image of herself holding up a can of Goya black beans with a message for her followers to buy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people were shocked that the president and his family would be promoting a product like this. Presidents do not often use their power to help other people make a profit from product sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ocasio-Cortez argued that Trump\u2019s promotion of Goya was a violation of the rule that prohibits the president from the \u201cendorsement of any product, service, or enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Continued Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/theinformedamerican.net\/aoc-tried-to-boycott-a-major-company-but-their-sales-went-straight-through-the-roof\/\">AOC Tried To Boycott A Major Company But Their Sales Went Straight Through The Roof\u2026 \u2013 The Informed American<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just amazing and beautiful. You\u2019ll remember when\u00a0AOC\u00a0tried to cancel\u00a0Goya Foods\u00a0because their CEO,\u00a0Bob Unanue, dared to utter, \u201cWe\u2019re all truly blessed at the same time to have a leader like President Trump, who is a builder\u201d\u00a0and in the same sentence also had the audacity to invoke God and prayer. Goya Foods&nbsp;is America\u2019s largest Hispanic-owned food company, according to the company itself. Julian Castro,&nbsp;former Housing and Urban Development secretary in the Obama administration,&nbsp; led the charge to boycott Goya after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}