Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) threatens to usurp Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) coronation.
When you thought Republicans were done with their bitching, here comes the latest outrage from conservatives. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) may become the nominee. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) is resigning from Congress at the end of the month. He will also give up his role as the House Speaker. McCarthy thought it was a shoe in. I guess not.
But there's still a feud within the ranks. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) are plotting an usurping of power. The Republican insurgents are feuding with one another.
Chaffetz represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District. His district includes the city of Provo, Orem, and the rugged deserts of Utah. It's one of the Republicans Party's strongest congressional districts. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it +25.
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL)
Webster represents Florida's 10th Congressional District. His district includes south of Orlando, Walt Disney World Resort, Winter Garden, Lakeland, The Villages, Leeberg, and Lake Alfred. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it +10.
Republicans are still fighting over leadership roles. They are fighting over how to work with President Barack Obama and how to make the fool the public into believing that the Benghazi hearings aren't political theater.
Didn't think this was hard! - Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA, Majority Leader)
The insurgents have declared that Webster maybe their choice for House Speaker. But will they actually vote for the guy or continue to destroy the party within?
Now this Freedom Caucus is spearheaded by a lawmaker from my community. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) represents Ohio's 4th Congressional District. His district includes northern portions of Springfield, eastern portions of Lorain, northern portions of Elyria, Urbana, Lima, Sidney, Norwalk, Tiffin, Bellefontaine, and Marysville. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives it R+9.
Jordan is an extremist in his own right. He often picked fights with Boehner. He and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) were responsible for the coup against Boehner. His Freedom Caucus has 40 members of the Republican insurgency.
He is the most vocal of the insurgency. He declares that each of them suck and he won't endorse any of them.
Ben Carson creates another controversy. He says that the Umpqua College victims should have taken down the active shooter. He also blames President Barack Obama for "politicizing" tragedies.
When a mass shooter aiming at you, what do you do?
Do you even have the fraction of the second to bum rush an active shooter?
Do you believe that we should arm professors, daycare workers, and teachers?
In the latest debate over gun control, the concern trolls are running on this notion that if you're armed, you can take out the threat. They believe that more guns are the solution. The "good guy" with a gun can stop the "bad guy" with a gun.
All this concern troll nonsense. So far there's been over 15 mass shootings since Sandy Hook. There's been no real serious debate over gun control. Each time the president mentions a tragedy, the agitators in the media politicize the debate and try to quarrel the noise. When the noise dies down, then we have another mass shooting. And we'll be back to debating it again.
President Barack Obama is right. We are numb to mass shootings. We often ignore this because we've gotten used to hearing about mass shootings.
Ben Carson who is running second of Donald Trump is an example of "armchair generals" who believes that he rather be a dead hero than a living coward.
Carson went to that network and told those morons on the couch.
"I would not just stand there and let him shoot me," Carson said on that network. "I would say, 'Hey, guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.'"
Carson believes that the victims just let the terrorist shoot them. He said that many lives could have been saved if someone would have ran up on an active shooter.
I thought he ordered them on the ground. He ordered some of the victims up and asked them their religion. When they did, he shot them. He told them they'll "soon be with God".
Army veteran Chris Mintz did fight back. He held the door. When he held the door, the terrorist shot through it and hit him over seven times. He barely survived.
Carson also slammed President Barack Obama for heading to Roseberg, Oregon. He believes that the president is "politicizes" the tragedy and the people don't want him there.
"When do we get to the point where we have people who actually want to solve our problems rather than just politicize everything?" Carson said. "I think that’s what the American people are so sick and tired of."
Carson also went on Facebook on Monday night and said the Oregon shooting hadn't changed his position against increased restrictions on gun ownership, because he "never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away."
Carson believe the president picks and chooses what tragedies to politicize. According to the conservatives, the president didn't call Kate Steinle's family. Kate was gunned down by an illegal immigrant who had low tier felonies before this murder.
Again, you don't know what you would do if an active shooter comes into a building. Many would try to hide and avoid being noticed. The active shooter doesn't care who you are. As long as you're in the vicinity of the shooter, you're likely going to be hit.
Conservatives think that gun free zones are the reasons for the Umpqua Community College tragedy.
Oregon is an open carry state. You can carry concealed weapons inside buildings. This terrorist had legal right to obtain firearms. He had no criminal history. He managed to kill nine innocent lives. The law told the junk food media that he didn't die in a hail of lead, but a self-inflicted shot to the head. The terrorist spared a man's life by handing him a package with a flash drive. The flash drive is in the hands of the feds. They are trying to seek the motive. They said the terrorist was a student and that was his class. The mother allowed this terrorist access to firearms. The terrorist had mental issues.
No matter.
As long as someone can bum rush a mass shooter, you can stop him.
So in the words of Ben Carson and many other concern trolls, "I am going to put my big pants on and try to have a street named after me when I'm dead!"
Business marketing executive got a cannon fire after he racially insults his co-worker's child.
A man got fired out the cannon for unprofessional behavior. Although, the company denies this was over the controversy, he knew his time was up. I'm going to explain that RacistsGetFired had a hand in this.
Some dork took a selfie with the son of a co-worker. As soon as he posted it on....Guess!
It went viral. It was sweep with racial insults towards the boy. Some were referring the boy to being a "feral animal" inside a civilized environment. Other remarks were "Kunta Kente", "Toby" and "Niglet".
Sydney Jade the mother of the 3-year old boy Cayden got the last laugh. Black Twitter created the hashtag #HisNameIsCayden and it went viral.
This is Cayden Jace! The love of my life, the apple in my eye, my EVERYTHING. All this lovely personality wrapped up...
Posted by Sydney Jade on Saturday, October 3, 2015
Gerod Roth (aka Geris Hilton) was the guy who took the selfie with Cayden.
Roth posted the image on Facebook last month, and the comments quickly showed the Internet at its absolute worst. Roth's friends posted racist jokes and hateful commentary, including references to slavery.
"He was feral," Roth wrote in what appears to be his only comment.
Dork got fired out the cannon after he made a snarky comment about a coworker's son. It went viral.
Roth told Fox 5 Atlanta that the "feral" comment referred to kids running around the building and that he actually told one person not to make racist remarks.
"I just really feel upset, not only with myself, but also the character that was based off the comments that my friends had made," Roth told the station. "Cayden has been victimized but I have been targeted."
A black friend who added #BlackLivesMatter to the image also said Roth is not racist.
"My Dawg isnt Racist, he just made a bad joke & im sure when he is given the outlet to speak about his regret, he will," wrote Skylar Felton on Facebook.
Roth said he has apologized to Jade by email. He was also fired from his job at Polaris Marketing Group last week, although the company said it was for unrelated reasons, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"It breaks my heart that Sydney and her adorable son Cayden were subjected to such hateful, ignorant and despicable behavior," company president Michael Da Graca Pinto wrote on Facebook. "Cayden visits my office almost every afternoon after daycare, he's sat at my dinner table and I consider him a part of the PMG family."
Sydney Jade and her lovely son Cayden.
But if the hatred and bullying posts reveal the Internet at its worst, the response also shows the online community at its best. Jade told the Atlanta Black Star about the unexpected level of support she's found.
"I never in a million years expected it to be this massive,” Jade told the website. “If it has to start with us, I’m going to finish it. It was my son put in the limelight. And not only my son but a child, a 3-year-old, someone who can’t defend himself."
Instead of the image linked to the hate-filled rants, Jade wants people to see another side of her son and posted a set of photos that show "all this lovely personality wrapped up into one small person's body."
The Root and Huffington Post reports that Roth apologized to Sydney and Cayden.
World News Today wish Sydney and Cayden well on their journey.
A story that happened to get a bit of national attention. The bad behavior of a young mother acting a damn fool on public transit. The woman gets into a verbal argument with the bus driver. The two exchange words and within a few minutes, all hell breaks loose.
The racist right will head over to the White extremist websites to slam her, President Barack Obama, Black Lives Matter and Rev. Al Sharpton for the antics of an unruly bus rider.
The woman threatens the bus driver with the Taser she pulled out her diaper bag. As in the video, you actually see the woman turn on the Taser and lunge at her.
The law would quickly apprehend her after she exit the bus with her infant son.
She gets national exposure and condemnation. She will end up getting her fair share of death threats.
On Monday, the Dayton Police were called to the location of Edwin C. Moses Boulevard. The law had got tipped of an unruly passenger on a local RTA bus.
Greater Dayton RTA is trying to disspell negative image.
The woman now identified as Tymeisha Williams got upset over a sudden stop which caused her infant son's stroller to tip over.
The bus driver admits that words were exchanged. She was visibly upset over this confrontation.
The driver wrote in her statement that she had an emergency call from her daughter. The daughter was being rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section. The driver taken the call from her daughter and probably missed the stop Williams wanted. So the sudden stop caused her to jilt and her son's stroller to tip over. When the driver stopped, Williams verbally complained about the driver's irresponsibility. The two get into a shouting match. The bus driver told her to exit the bus or she'll call the law. Williams said that she'll give put her ass in the hospital with her shocker.
After Williams was cuffed, she was resisting arrest. Once she was placed in the vehicle, Williams bangs her head on the window and screams loudly. They had to place her in shackles on her way to the county lockup.
The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority bans the passenger.
President Barack Obama endorses the reelection of Rahm Emmanuel for mayor of Chicago. Emmanuel faces mounting criticism over gun violence in the the city. The president has mentioned gun violence in his hometown. Republicans and conservative agitators are tone deaf.
How come Obama mentions gun crimes all over the place but ignores Chicago?
Does Haydia Pendleton ring a bell?
Well in 2013, the young Chicago girl was a part of her school's marching band. She was attending the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Two weeks later, she was murdered by ricochet fire in Chicago. Her death made the news. The president even mentioned her in his State of The Union Address. Outgoing Weeper of the House, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), rolled his eyes when the president mentioned her name and the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.
I can tell you that Chicago has seen a decline in homicide by guns but the problem still exist.
There's even a website that tracks the homicide by firearms. It's called HeyJackass and it's a controversial tale of Chicago's gun violence.
Many of the concern trolls are balking at the president's tougher stance on gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College massacre. The president said the time is now to "politicize" this.
He wants gun control and I am definitely for it. Too many innocent lives are lost to senseless gun violence.
This stupid argument about a "good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun" is getting old.
The gun nuts are playing deflection bingo. They're trying to find ways to distract the American public from discussing the possibility of gun control.
The inept Congress, the NRA, the insurgents running in the clown car and agitators are trying to say that the issue isn't about guns. It's about mental illness and the president is "rushing to judgement" over a tragedy.
Yes, the Black community and Black Lives Matter talk about gun violence in Chicago.
Well this has been nearly 20 times and it's not getting any better. I swear on my life, if Obama didn't mention this tragedy, the conservative agitators would say he doesn't care about them. Their bitching about the Chattanooga shooting. When the president didn't react fast enough to the tragedy they were bitching about him not supporting the troops. He didn't lower the American flags in the wake of four military officers being slain by a deranged man. He took heat for that. The agitators solely focused on the terrorist's religion and race than the fact he had access to firearms and had mental issues.
When the Charleston massacre happened, the conservatives deflected from the fact this terrorist's race, access to firearms and political views. They initially thought the terrorist didn't have conservative views. They thought it was a whack job. They hoped it was a Muslim. Then when the terrorist admits it was about race, the agitators were quick to blame the president for making this about race. The agitators went as far to blame the president for advocating this terrorist because of the Obama's reactions to Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.
Nearly 400 shootings in Chicago this year.
Every time president mentions gun tragedies the conservative agitators turn this narrative about Chicago's gun violence. They act like they're concerned about gun violence.
Let's begin with that Loudmouth Bill Cunningham. The Cincinnati-based conservative agitator has a radio program during the AM middays and Sunday nights. Cunningham is often loud and obnoxious towards the president. He puts on this "concern troll" act about gun violence in Chicago. He claims the president doesn't talk about Chicago. The pathetic conservative agitator has a syndicated talk show on The CW.
We can include them fucking Black shitkickers Jesse Lee Peterson, Deneen Borelli and Kevin Jackson to the list of deflectors. I've heard these crazy ass coons rambling about the president not mentioning Chicago. They called the president a "racist" for talking about issues like Ferguson and Baltimore.
When you travel about 200 miles to Milwaukee, you'll find the tin horn cop David Clarke. The controversial sheriff of Milwaukee County is one of the umpteenth Black conservatives who rose to fame blasting the president. He runs this "what about my city, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, etc."
And each of those mentioned appeared on that network's primetime lineup. They appear mostly on that annoying conservative agitator's right wing carnival.
How many more will take before Congress actually gets the message?
Gun crime is the number one threat facing Americans. Gun crime is a bigger threat than terrorism, Ebola, measles, Iran and Russia.
Major scandal involving two of the country's fantasy sports companies.
FanDuel and DraftKings are incredibly popular. Gamblers take the chance on winning big $$$$$$ picking their favorite football teams and the score stats.
Talk radio agitators were promote these websites. I can tell you that annoying conservative agitator was actively encouraging his gullible audience to engage in these websites. I believe that old fart Limbaugh was promoting this as well.
Well there's a scandal brewing with these gaming sites.
One of the rivals was getting the low down on player stats. Ethan Haskell who worked at DraftKings took in over a quarter of a million running the numbers over at FanDuel.
DraftKings techie Ethan Haskell got death threats and worldwide condemnation after he accidentally leaked information that he profited from rival FanDuel.
That insider data gave him an opportunity to make himself rich. And with them riches, he actually got reckless. He accidentally leaked information to his friends. Them friends told the junk food media about it and now there's a scandal.
The New York Times reports that this scandal is huge. The two major fantasy companies were forced to release statements defending their businesses’ integrity after what amounted to allegations of insider trading, that employees were placing bets using information not generally available to the public.
Haskell clammed up and blocked access to his social media accounts in fear of death threats and potential incrimination. Now his mistake has caught wind over at Congress. Some are calling for regulations on fantasy sports.
He might be called upon the Congress to testify to why he got insider information.
The industry has its roots in informal fantasy games that began years ago with groups of fans playing against one another for fun over the course of a season. They assembled hypothetical teams and scored points based on how players did in actual games.
But in recent years, companies, led by DraftKings and FanDuel, have set up online daily and weekly games based on a similar concept in which fans pay an entry fee to a website — from 25 cents to $1,000 — to play dozens if not hundreds of opponents, with prize pools that can pay $2 million to the winner. Critics have complained that the setup is hardly different from Las Vegas-style gambling that is normally banned in the sports world.
Well here another reason to why Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are destroying talk radio.
These two were on talk radio endorsing products that may end up being scams. They were proudly endorsing these companies.
FanDuel and DraftKings is gambling. You are wasting your money online betting on the unpredictable NFL and NCAA-I College football games.
I am not a statistician but I bet you that 80% of Americans over 18 year old have played a game of chance for money. If I am not proven right, then I lose a reader. Regardless, I won't lose a cent.
Americans involved in DraftKings and FanDuel are likely to gamble their life savings on fantasy sports, casinos, lottery and bingo.
Stock photo of a Black man staring at a White woman.
Did you know that if I stare at you, I can get in trouble?
Well in Cincinnati, this little boy got a suspension from school after he was caught staring at a little girl. The boy and girl were playing the staring game. According to the school, he made the girl nervous. The girl told her parents and the school handled the problem accordingly.
Now I don't want to jump to conclusions. There was no threat of gun violence in this incident.
However, I can't believe this! A staring game leads to suspension. Maybe he said to the girl that he can "shoot laser beams or bullets out of his eyes".
It seems like all the attention was brought upon the color of the children. It was a Black boy and a White girl.
Now I am just speculating but reading from the Dayton Daily News, Addicting Info and Fox 19 websites, I see that I may be right on this.
This suspension was taken to the Ohio court. St. Gabriel Consolidated School in Glendale suspended the boy in September.
St. Gabriel Consolidated School. The Cincinnati Catholic Archdiocese owns the property.
The boy's mother Candice Tolbert isn't taking this sitting down. She took her concerns to the junk food media and now it's a viral story.
The parents filed suit in Hamilton County Common Pleas court to try and get the suspension erased claiming the school didn’t give their son due process.
A judge denied the claim, which means as of now the suspension of the 12-year old stands. "The perception is he intimidated her," said the mother.
"My son stared at a girl who was engaged in a staring game," she said. "She giggled the entire time," she said from her Liberty Township home.
Candice didn't want to play the "race card" but stopped short of saying that the girl was known to be a troublemaker.
"The same girl that accused my son of this act of perception of intimidation, aggressively poured milk on someone else's lunch. When she did that there was no penalties for that. She received nothing for that," said Candice.
The school sited the handbook, which they feel supports their position on the suspension. It reads in part, "The principal is the final recourse in all disciplinary matters and may waive any and all rules at his/her discretion for just cause."
The parents are considering appealing the judge's decision.
Montgomery County Sheriff's deputy involved in an accident. Bombshell, this is the wife of a deputy who is on ice after he killed Donate Martin.
I was asleep this morning when I was awaken to sirens this morning.
I didn't know what had happen until I turned on the local junk food media. They were reporting a deputy was involved in an accident near my home.
The deputy crashed into another vehicle. The deputy said that she had the lights and sirens on when she was heading to another crash on Interstate 75 near the Needmore Road exit. The deputy and driver of the other vehicle were taken to the hospital.
The accident happened on Shoup Mill Road and Riverside Drive in Harrison Township.
The sheriff's SUV took a flip and the driver's car took a trip into the woods. I can tell you straight up from watching the video, the deputy was going 65 in a 40 mph zone. The driver of the vehicle who turned from Riverside to Shoup Mill Road turned at a point where the deputy was maneuvering through the road.
The Ohio State Patrol and Montgomery County Sheriff are investigating who's at fault.
The junk food media releases the name of the deputy.
Her name is Amber Haas. I am guessing that this is the wife of the iced deputy who shot two suspects in the same year. One of the suspects that this deputy bucked made national headlines.
Earlier this year, Montgomery County Ohio sheriff deputies Josh Haas and Gust Teague were put in the freezer after they put the lead in Donate Martin. They claim that Donate was reaching for a firearm and they had no choice but to neutralized the threat. The dashcam wasn't even on.
They're still in the freezer pending a grand jury decision on whether this merits a criminal trial.
Yeah, we can also say that Haas and his buddies profiled me this year.
McKayla Dyer would be one of the youngest victims of gun violence. An 11-year old boy murdered the little girl after he got upset over her not sharing a puppy.
I don't like doing this. But I am going to take a political stance on gun crimes. When will we have reasonable gun control?
Why do the agitators amplify criminal acts for ratings?
When these criminal acts are done by someone of color, the junk food media and agitators would often rush to blame someone other than the shooter. Now if this was a young Black child who murdered a White child over a spurn, the junk food media would release the name of the suspect.
The conservative agitators would automatically blame #BlackLivesMatter and President Barack Obama.
I am even shocked that there's no sympathetic responses from BlackLivesMatters activists DeRay McKesson, Shaun White and Bree Newsome.
There was a shooting in rural White Pine, Tennessee. A boy was upset over a girl's refusal to share a puppy leads to murder. It's shocking to me that a 11-year old boy would murder a 8-year old girl over a spurn. The boy got agitated with her. McKayla Dyer didn't expect this boy to return to kill her.
Mother clearly devastated over McKayla's lost.
The boy retrieved his father's 12 gauge shotgun. The boy fired the firearm from the window of his home. McKayla got shot in the chest. She would be rushed to the hospital where they confirmed she died.
Her mother Latasha told the junk food media that her daughter was bullied by the suspect. Latasha confirmed that the boy would agitate confrontations with McKayla. This feud was going on for awhile between the children.
The boy is detained in juvenile lockup.
The boy's name isn't released for now. Tennessee law requires murder charges in case of underage to be classified until a judge charges the child as a suspect.
The parents may face charges if the judge determines that boy and his siblings experienced inadequate living conditions.
World News Today send our condolences to McKayla Dyer.
The Tupac Shakur letters from Clinton Correctional go up for sale.
The life and trials of Tupac Amuru Shakur. The controversial rapper's death on the Las Vegas strip was almost 20 years ago. The FBI and Las Vegas Police have not solved this case.
The rapper was gunned down after leaving a Mike Tyson fight. He was the passenger in the vehicle and Big Suge Knight was the driver. They were hit with gunfire. Tupac was hit five times and would be rushed to the hospital. According to the family members and friends, the rapper was put in a coma and stayed alive until they declared his injuries fatal.
The assailants were allegedly members of the domestic terrorist group The Crips. They haven't gotten any good leads. Big Suge right now isn't talking. He's sticking to the G-code despite him facing LIFE in the iron college after he was accused of vehicular homicide which was bumped to murder.
There's talk about a movie being in the works.
Before his death, he was riding high on Death Row Records. The record label helped propel Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and Tupac Shakur into pop culture. It also earned a notorious reputation for being a front for domestic terrorism. The now jailed former honcho Marion "Suge" Knight was the motivator of the label. He was the muscle and the brains behind the label. Dr. Dre, the co-founder was the producer of most of the Death Row albums until his departure in late 1995. Big Suge had connections to the domestic terrorist group The Bloods. The Bloods had a strong influence on the label.
Big Suge's influence helped Tupac get a "free card". When he was being held up on a sexual assault charge, Big Suge's connections managed to get him out. Almost immediately, Tupac signed a deal to Death Row and release the All Eyez On Me album in 1996.
While he was in the iron college, he wrote letters to his friends and some of the junk food media.
Some of his letters were obtained through an organization willing to sell these items to the right bidder. One letter is going on sale for a hefty bid.
Eight months after the album's release, he would be murdered. Around the time of his death, Death Row released Makaveli: The Don Killuminati The 7 Day Theory. The album release came five weeks after Tupac's murder.
Tupac wrote to Nina Bhadreshwar, a staffer at his record label, Death Row Records. That five-page letter is now for sale for $225,000 from Moments In Time, the New York Post reports. He opens by noting that he's replying to a letter from Bhadreshwar, who worked for Death Row Uncut magazine and her own publication. "I am not granting this information to any other publication, not even Time & Rolling Stone so please represent it as it is layed," Shakur wrote. "I trust u."
He went on to explain that black males in America grow from "young dustkicker" to "thug nigga" to "boss playa" and that "many niggaz never survive the second level of thuglife." He wrote that he himself almost didn't. "A regular Playa plays women, a Boss Playa plays life. A Boss Playa is a thinker, a leader, a builder, a moneymaker, a souljah, a teacher and most of all, a Man! I want all my homiez to know there is another level, it takes heart and courage 2 stand alone face the demons and make a change!" So, since "in my heart the thug nigga has advanced to be a Boss Playa," he wrote, "Thug Life is not dead but in my heart it is."
A famed clothing company is filing for bankruptcy today. It's a sign that shoppers aren't finding any interest in American Apparel. I couldn't be any more happier of the news.
I've never bought anything from that company. I've never applied for a job there. I've always had a feeling that they would use discriminating tactics in hiring. AA founder's Dov Charney, a Canadian-American business mogul was fired out the cannon after he was caught up in a sexual harassment and discrimination scandal.
The company once held a gold standard of hiring practice. They didn't want any "trashy Black women" ever hired at their stores. Watch "the ones" who may shoplift from the store. Look for the "right types of customers". You know "the ones" who got money.
AA was having that going on at their stores.
So now the company will focus on trying to bring back customers. AA want to restart the company under Standard General, an American based hedge firm.
The company, which has seen spiraling sales and an ever-sinking stock price since the management upheaval began, proposed a plan that would keep its 130 U.S. stores open and maintain its Los Angeles manufacturing operation, the Times reported. No layoffs were mentioned in the Chapter 11 petition, which was approved by American Apparel’s board, and filed in Delaware, the newspaper said. The plan requires approval by the federal bankruptcy court, it added.
American Apparel’s shares closed at 11 cents each last week.
American Apparel’s brand recognition has far exceeded its sales numbers over the past decade with its “Made in the USA” ethos, provocative advertising, and colorful, scandal-ridden founder Dov Charney.
Charney didn't go quietly. He mounted a civil war within the board.
Notice something about this picture!
The new CEO Paula Schneider is facing mounting criticism. She promised a turnaround. It's a little too late for the turnaround. Schneider is considered inept among the shareholders.
American Apparel saw new legal fees, a workforce moving towards unionization, plummeting sales, and wider losses. It announced layoffs earlier this year, as well as store closures. Questions have been swirling around the company’s ability to pay a major interest payment later this month.
The bankruptcy, if approved, will mean just that. It will also wipe out Charney’s stake in the company, according to the Los Angeles Times. Standard General and other creditors will gain full control of American Apparel if the plan is approved.
“Not having the nuisance lawsuits, not having this massive debt, these are all extremely important things for the company to thrive,” Schneider told the Times in a Sunday interview.
