“Bartenders have long ordered cocktail shakers, strainers and stainless steel jiggers from BarProducts.com. Some stopped after Jan. 6, when the company’s chief executive posted a photo of himself in front of the U.S. Capitol building while rioters stormed Congress. The since-deleted selfie of BarProducts founder and CEO Mark Hastings, accompanied by the caption ‘Stop the Steal!,’ has led to a fight with some of its once-loyal customers. The dust-up is the latest example of CEOs taking public stances and the backlash that can follow.”
“‘After 16 years of buying my bar tools from his company I, for one, will never spend another cent with them,’ Brad Kaplan, 46, posted on Facebook alongside a screenshot of Mr. Hastings’s selfie in a Trump hat. In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hastings wrote in an email, ‘I urge you to reconsider your timing and run the article (that I’d be obliged to help with), at a time when conservative free speech is not under attack'” – Wall Street Journal.