Howard Schultz: Another fat cat who couldn't be bothered to vote (but wants your vote)
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Jan 31, 2019
4 minutes
What is it with plutocrats and voting? Or to put it more precisely: What is it with plutocrats and not voting?
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz, who thinks he might want to run for president, is the latest business big shot to enter high-level politics without having taken the time to exercise the fundamental franchise of a participant in a democracy - casting a ballot.
The tally comes to us from columnist Danny Westneat of the Seattle Times, who expertly mined local election records to determine that Schultz voted in just 11 of 38 elections dating back to 2005.
The record is damning. Although Schultz has voted in every presidential election and the November
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