Schultz’s successor as CEO, Kevin Johnson, emailed the chain’s 350,000 employees worldwide a message at 6 a.m. yesterday that said: “As a company, we don’t get involved in national political campaigns. And nothing changes for Starbucks.”
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Good luck with that. If the company is publicly attacked, it will have little choice but to defend itself.
In fact, Starbucks officials have prepared for a media onslaught, and have studied the cases of other business titans who have run for office.
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