Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Calls For Boycott On Campaign Contributions


Dan Froomkin
The Huffington Post
8/15/11


The CEO of Starbucks wants Washington to wake up and smell the coffee.

Infuriated by what he described as irresponsible behavior, Howard Schultz is calling on his fellow CEOs — and other would-be donors — to boycott all campaign contributions to either party until the nation’s elected leaders put aside their political posturing and find some common ground on long-term fiscal issues.

Schultz wrote in a widely distributed email dated Monday that, like “so many common-sense Americans,â€