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Businessman Frank Vandersloot, the CEO of Melaleuca, has been targeted by the Obama campaign after donating money to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. "Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, 'Keeping GOP Honest,' took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney," Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal reported. "Titled 'Behind the curtain: a brief history of Romney's donors,' the post accused the eight of being 'wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records.' Mr. VanderSloot was one of the eight, smeared particularly as being 'litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement.'"
The attacks are working. Vandersloot revealed in an interview on Fox News that his business practice is being hurt by the attacks from the Obama team.
"Those people that I know well weren't affected by this [attack]," said Vandersloot. "But for people who didn't know me, who are members of our business or customers, and they were reading this, then we got a barrage of phone calls of people cancelling their customer memberships with us."
"Really?," the Fox News host asked. "How many did that?"
"A couple hundred that we can track," Vandersloot replied.
Again, the host asked, "Really? Do you have any grounds to sue?"
"I suppose we do," Vandersloot said. The businessman says he's been accused of being anti-gay, an accusation he says that couldn't be further from the truth.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/businessman-says-he-lost-hundreds-customers-after-attacks-obama-campaign_644393.html
Someone needs to send that poor rich guy a box of tissue.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Out these prejudiced a**holes, one after the other. We need to purge that cancer from our government. Let them go get their white hoods and sheets and dance around a bonfire instead of allowing their cancer into our government to dictate how the rest of us should live.
libodem
(19,288 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)"Get out of debt with Melleuca!" Sure!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Regrets abound when one is called on their actions, not by their actions themselves.