{"id":10669,"date":"2009-12-09T23:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:33:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-09T23:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:33:28","slug":"resnick-a-political-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/resnick-a-political-liability\/","title":{"rendered":"Resnick&#8230; a political liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, I posted an entry at <a href=\"http:\/\/cagreening.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/california-greenings-2009-un-green.html\">California Greening<\/a> that called for a boycott of Stewart Resnick&#8217;s Fuji Water brand. &nbsp;That was before the recent San Francisco published a <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforinvestigativereporting.org\/articles\/corporatefarmercallsuponpoliticalalliestoinfluencedeltadispute\">front page story<\/a> by Lance Williams of the Center for Investigative Reporting that tied Resnick to Lady Di&#8230; a story that she was forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/08\/EDCD1B0DOF.DTL\">deny <\/a> today. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I am beginning to hear rumbles that others will be calling for the boycott as well. &nbsp;We shall see when it happens. &nbsp;I mean this issues is not like the grape boycott, but the target is the same: arrogant agribusiness owners&#8230; Resnick probably never got his hands dirty in his life&#8230; who take every advantage to increase their wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to understand the rationale for the LA County Democratic Party Issues and Advocacy Committee accepting $25 K from Resnick back on May 13, 2009. &nbsp;Would that issue have been water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, I posted an entry at <a href=\"http:\/\/cagreening.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/california-greenings-2009-un-green.html\">California Greening<\/a> that called for a boycott of Stewart Resnick&#8217;s Fuji Water brand. &nbsp;That was before the recent San Francisco published a <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforinvestigativereporting.org\/articles\/corporatefarmercallsuponpoliticalalliestoinfluencedeltadispute\">front page story<\/a> by Lance Williams of the Center for Investigative Reporting that tied Resnick to Lady Di&#8230; a story that she was forced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/08\/EDCD1B0DOF.DTL\">deny <\/a> today. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I am beginning to hear rumbles that others will be calling for the boycott as well. &nbsp;We shall see when it happens. &nbsp;I mean this issues is not like the grape boycott, but the target is the same: arrogant agribusiness owners&#8230; Resnick probably never got his hands dirty in his life&#8230; who take every advantage to increase their wealth.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to understand the rationale for the LA County Democratic Party Issues and Advocacy Committee accepting $25 K from Resnick back on May 13, 2009. &nbsp;Would that issue have been water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[6414,8169],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-6414","tag-8169"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2M5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}