Tea Partiers staged a Buycott today, Tuesday, September 1st at 6p.m. in St. Louis and in Dallas, Texas.
The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition said Friday that local members plan to shop Tuesday night at a Whole Foods in Town & Country to support the grocery store chain chief executive’s opposition to a public health care option.
John Mackey, founder and CEO of Austin-based Whole Foods, wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal this month opposing a government health care option.
Tuesday’s “buycott” started at 6 p.m. and they ran out of carts for the store within 20 minutes
“We are asking supporters to do all their week’s grocery shopping that night,” said Dana Loesch of the St. Louis Tea Party. “Most tea party supporters are not regular customers of Whole Foods, and we want to show our support for Mr. Mackey’s championship of free-market health-care reforms.” And we would encourage them, tea party groups in other areas and other supporters of Freedom of Speech to continue to shop at Whole Foods… perhaps making the first Tuesday of every month a group shop.
Tea Party Patriot Gina Loudon is asking anyone who cannot attend should SAVE THEIR RECEIPTS and mail them to Gina at:
Gina Loudon can be contacted by email at Gina@stlouisteaparty.com.
The Nationwide Tea party Coalition is also supporting this effort.
--More information here.
The Digital Journal has more on the BUYcott.
The Buycott was covered by Greta Van Susteren on Fox’s Greta Wire earlier tonight.
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Supporting Whole Foods, John Mackey and the Freedom of Speech
Join us on Wednesday, September 16th for the Tea Party "Buycott" at Whole Foods. The location(s) is TBD.
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