Quint Studer, co-owner of Bodacious Olive and Bodacious Brew, was surprised to hear his businesses have been targeted for a boycott after the Pensacola City Council passed anti-panhandling ordinances. He said the boycott organizers have not contacted him or asked for information on what the Studers have done to help the homeless.
If they had, they would have learned the Studers have donated over half a million dollars to the Waterfront Rescue Mission over the years. The Studer Foundation helped provide 5,000+ meals and blankets to the hungry and homeless in the Pensacola area in the fourth quarter of 2016. See video.
The Studers also funded a shelter for women and families for two years, The Beacon. Read PNJ and SCI.
The Boycott organizers say that businesses can be removed from boycott list “by releasing a public statement to the Pensacola press with evidence of your business’s material support for the homeless population AND a denunciation of the anti-panhandling ordinance.”
Are half a million dollars, 5,000 blankets and meals, and running a homeless shelter enough evidence?
Stay tuned.