This petition isn't slowing down and it's only 1 cog in the wheel in motion. Protests are being organized, people are boycotting everything Hershey from the park to the chocolate bars, word is spreading to vendors and partners, activist organizations are putting this on their radar and organizing. This isn't just a petition, this is a start.
Hershey Entertainment is well aware celebrities like Tucker Carlson bring violence and disruption to the areas they perform in, and we can't for sure say that Donald Trump isn't the "special mystery guest" making it a surprise campaign stop. Regardless of who the "surprise mystery guest" is tax payers and the locals will be footing the bill and burden. Hershey is hereby being reminded that the locals are their repeat customers spending more than tourists every year with multiple trips to their entities. It is unwise to leave a mess on their back door step without even the courtesy of bagging it up.
(Fast fwd to 2:25:00 for Chairman Chris Abruzzo if HE&R promising to make campaigns pay for political rallies
https://www.youtube.com/live/ouohkl5ooQI?si=ofbUjXVBzdfZhehV
"Hershey Entertainment & Resorts is a world-class entertainment and leisure company that honors Milton S. Hershey's legacy by giving back to Milton Hershey School and the communities where our team members live."
Hosting celebrities like Tucker Carlson who would happily axe the charitable programs and entities created by Milton Hershey is by no means honoring his legacy and is in fact creating a very large stain upon it. It appears that Hershey Entertainment has a similar personalized definition of "honoring" as they do "supporting".
Experts on hate speech and extremism have accused him of endorsing white supremacist ideologies.
*In 2020, Carlson called it "soulless" and "craven" to support the Black Lives Matter movement. He claimed it was "definitely not about black lives".
*In recordings from 2006-11 obtained by a watchdog that monitors conservative media, Carlson called women "extremely primitive", defended child marriage and made sexual comments about underage girls.
*In another instance, audio captured him calling Iraq a "crappy place filled with... semiliterate primitive monkeys".
*he said immigrants made America "poorer and dirtier", leading several large companies to pull their advertisements
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65381815
Let HE&R know how you feel.
Contact ALL THREE of these individuals.
John Lawn, President of the Board
jlawn@hersheypa.com
Leslie Ferraro, vice president of the Board
lferraro@hersheypa.com
And Vikki Hultquist, VP of Hersheypark and Entertainment operations
vhultquist@hersheypa.com
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