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Starbucks to DC: 'Come Together,' Via Our Cups

Bipartisan message on every cup for 3 days

By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 26, 2012 9:08 AM CST

(Newser) – Starbucks thinks it has the key to the fiscal cliff, and it is caffeinated: But instead of withholding DC lawmakers' joe until they forge a deal, the coffee company is making them drink out of cups labeled "Come Together" until Friday, reports Politico. “It’s a small gesture, but the power of small gestures is what Starbucks is about!,” writes CEO Howard Schultz on his blog. The sentiment is less than controversial, if not nearly universal, and the AP notes that Starbucks could actually score points with customers. Last year Schultz encouraged his fellow CEOs to stop donating to politics altogether until a debt deal was worked out.

DC-area Starbucks employees are writing Come Together on coffee cups in hopes that lawmakers will forge a fiscal cliff deal. Yeah, that oughtta do it.
DC-area Starbucks employees are writing "Come Together" on coffee cups in hopes that lawmakers will forge a fiscal cliff deal. Yeah, that oughtta do it.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 6 comments
Pragmatist
Dec 26, 2012 10:22 AM CST
Starbucks?   Really?      ... Thought the cliff was all about Taxbucks!!!
YuzhniyNext
Dec 26, 2012 10:06 AM CST
Coffee is stupid, but the whole "no donating to politics" I can get behind.
Fondue
Dec 26, 2012 9:30 AM CST
Why didn't I think of that? Oh yeah, because it won't help.
 

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