Scott will tell you deliveries are a little different, especially one back on the 16th of this month. That was a big order for this small business of four employees. 200 brown bag specials…with turkey, roast beef, ham and veggie sandwiches. The total…$963.01.
As he headed out that day, Scott remembered this customer has paid its bills late a couple times before. So he promised delivery this time with one condition, “c.o.d.”
He showed up at the customer’s downtown office just in time for lunch. The Dean headquarters was utter chaos. But he couldn’t find anyone who’d pay him. They said try the other building next door. Same answer next door, try the other building. Scott went back and forth for 20 minutes. Nobody would pay.
He just assumed they would pay in good faith. After all, Dick Gephardt’s campaign paid its lunch bills on time. And Howard Dean has thousands of followers in Iowa. Can’t one of them give Scott his money?
We tried all day to reach Howard Dean’s people– no comment from them yet. By the way, Scott Hoffman says he considered himself a possible Dean supporter before the incident. He’s since changed his mind.
Maybe some of those Dean supporters over at Deans blog could start a grassroots campaign to raise money to pay the bill that Dean’s people completely disregarded?
Come on people – if you wanted the Deli to contribute to the campaign – - you could’ve asked first.
Before you spend another cent on contributing to Dean’s campaign — pay his Iowa Deli bill first! These poor, small town, small business owners can’t afford to carry this kind of red balance! Almost one thousand dollars!
Email everyone you know! Get those contributions coming in to help support the Brown Bag Deli in Iowa to get that Dean sandwich bill paid for!
Just sayin’ . . .
If this is how he does a small business, imagine what he could/would do to the country. Sends a shiver, doesn’t it?
Oh, man! I’m not even sure I want to go there…
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That’s alot of bread for the deli owner, no pun intended. Would it be illegal to mail Dean a nice stinky tuna sandwich in the mail? I’d love to help his campaign by sending refreshments!
How horrible for the deli! Last night it was being reported that Dean is running very low on funds, and is thinking of not paying his people in order to buy air time…If I don’t eat, I don’t work!