The GoFundMe account, titled “Buy GOYA - Support Trump & Feed the Hungry,” had raised nearly $250,000 from 7,000 donors Wednesday morning for food pantries in the Washington, D.C., area. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who said in Spanish on Twitter: “If it’s Trump, it has to be corrupt.” Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.”Īmong those who took to social media in response was Rep. Casey Harper, who started the GoFundMe, said: Im not surprised we have. The tweet from Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and a senior White House advisor, carries a message in Spanish and English: “If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Goya Boycott Backfires As Trump Supporters Buy In Bulk And Finally Season Their. Funds raised by the Paniyiri Greek Festival are channeled back into the community via the Greek Orthodox Community of St George-Brisbane, Brisbane’s oldest Greek Orthodox Community, established in Queensland in the 1920s.
Some Latino families purged their pantries of Goya products and scrambled to find alternatives to the beloved beans, seasoning and other products that have long been fixtures in their cooking. The United Farm Workers posted a video on Twitter contrasting Trump’s words deriding some Latinos as criminals and rapists against images of them working hard in the fields. 'Buy GOYA Support Trump & Feed the Hungry,' the fundraiser headline reads. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hamilton writer Lin-Manuel Miranda joined the boycott calls. A GoFundMe campaign soliciting funds to purchase Goya products for food pantries near the nations capital has surpassed 127,000 as the Hispanic food company has become a focus of cultural contention. Former Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, Rep.
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Si es Trump, tiene que ser corrupto ? - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez July 15, 2020Īlmost immediately, #BoycottGoya, #GoyaFoods and #Goyaway began trending on social media platforms. The tweet came on the heels of a GoFundMe account set up to buy Goya products and distribute them to the poor as well as a Goya announcement Monday that it has begun distributing two million pounds of food to families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.The backlash is a response to the boycott spurred by Goya chief executive Robert Unanue when he stood by President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday and praised him, saying, “We are truly blessed, at the same time, to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder.” Unanue, grandson of the founder of the New Jersey-based Goya, stood by his words Friday in a Fox&Friends appearance. The Twitter post drew immediate criticism and raised questions about whether the president’s daughter violated ethics laws that prevent federal employees from using their positions “to endorse any product, service or enterprise,” the Washington Post reported. Ivanka Trump joined the backlash against an anti-Trump boycott of Goya foods with a tweet Tuesday night showing her holding an iconic can of black beans from the Hispanic-owned food company.