As the ads began running this week on Fox Business and CNBC, and in markets where the companies are headquartered, Coca-Cola pledged to respect everyone’s First Amendment rights and work together on a “path forward.” "We respect everyone’s right to raise their concerns and express their views, but we also believe the best way to make progress now is for us all to come together to listen, respectfully share concerns and collaborate on a path forward," Coca-Cola told RealClearPolitics in a statement. "We remain open to productive conversations with groups who may have differing views."... “To the extent [Coca-Cola’s] latest statement is a commitment to stop serving the politicians and focusing on its customers, it’s promising,” said Will Hild, executive director of Consumers Research, the group that launched the ads. “To the extent it’s just hand-waving and trying to act like there’s no problem, like they haven’t been distracting from their bad business practices and the problems with their products and how they treat customers, it’s just more of the same.”