This whole LL Bean thing...

[Fla Dem]

25. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. If you want to boycott Linda Bean,

then boycott the company she runs.

Bean, the granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood Bean, is a member of the retailer’s board and runs a lobster company called Linda Bean’s Lobster Dreams.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/01/06/linda-bean-in-trouble-with-fec-over-pro-trump-pac/

This from her web site Linda Bean's Lobster Dreams

While her core principles are libertarian — she was a high-profile supporter of Ron Paul last year — she’s also a social conservative, supporting groups and candidates opposed to gay rights, gay marriage, abortion, and multiculturalism. She is a trustee of the Eagle Forum, the influential “pro-family” interest group of her close friend Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative Republican icon. She’s supported the Maine Grassroots Coalition (whose core mission is to “adamantly defend traditional marriage”) and Concerned Maine Families (which fought against anti-discrimination laws protecting homosexuals.)

“Those are biblically-based issues with me,” explains Bean, who is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which teaches that the Bible is infallible and homosexuality sinful. “It’s helped me to go to the Bible for direction — there’s a lot of truth in it, and it’s a great book of learning if people would take time with it.”

Her political activities must have made for occasional tension at L.L. Bean board meetings, given that her cousin Leon Gorman and his wife give to Democratic causes. (After Bean’s 1992 Congressional bid, gay activists in Philadelphia organized a brief boycott of the company.) But in recent years, Bean says they’ve come together on two issues: gambling and the environment.

Indeed, members of the Bean clan gave $175,000 to Casinos No! in 2007 and $260,000 in 2008, accounting for more than 40 percent of all donations to the group. Last year Linda, who refuses to sell lottery tickets at her Port Clyde store, gave $45,000. She says gambling is harmful and contrary to Maine values: “We don’t need it. If other states want it, fine, but this is Maine.”

Bean says the family increasingly finds common ground on green issues, including her current effort to get Maine lobster certified as a sustainable product by the London-based Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). “I appreciate a little more that we’re on a planet that needs to be protected, and I’m going kind of green,” she says, with biodegradable packaging and an advertising campaign touting the Maine lobster fishery’s environmentally friendly practices. And with major retailers like Wal-Mart requiring all wild-caught seafood to have MSC certification, she says it makes good business sense, too.

“I hope I can take what I make as an L.L. Bean shareholder and put it to use in creating a more viable, growing lobster fishing community that can pass it on to their kids and grandkids,” she says as a visitor finishes one of her very plump lobster rolls. “It gives me great pleasure to do that, honestly. It really does.”

http://www.lindabeansperfectmaine.com/2009/07/linda-beans-lobster-dreams/