{"id":678,"date":"2018-06-04T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/2018\/06\/04\/howard-schultz-is-running-for-president-probably\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:23:01","slug":"howard-schultz-is-running-for-president-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/2018\/06\/04\/howard-schultz-is-running-for-president-probably\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Schultz Is Running For President (Probably)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2018\/06\/Pasted-image-at-2018_06_04-01_49-PM-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133585\" src=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2018\/06\/Pasted-image-at-2018_06_04-01_49-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breaking news here via the Coffee Tycoons With Political Ambitions newswire, as Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circa.com\/story\/2018\/06\/04\/business\/howard-schultz-is-stepping-down-from-his-role-at-starbucks\">has announced<\/a> he will leave the company at the end of June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The original report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/04\/business\/dealbook\/starbucks-howard-schultz.html\">via The New York Times<\/a> contains this great big <em>venti<\/em>\u00a0half-caf extra whip bombshell of a quote:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI want to be truthful with you without creating more speculative headlines,\u201d he told The New York Times. \u201cFor some time now, I have been deeply concerned about our country \u2014 the growing division at home and our standing in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tyen8a e2kc3sl0\">\u201cOne of the things I want to do in my next chapter is to figure out if there is a role I can play in giving back,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure what that means yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1tyen8a e2kc3sl0\">Asked directly if he was considering running for president, he said, \u201cI intend to think about a range of options, and that could include public service. But I\u2019m a long way from making any decisions about the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He throws a little bit of Starbucks Single Origin Nari\u00f1o Cold Brew on the prospect of running for president later in the article, telling Times Deal Book reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin,\u00a0\u201cI want to be of service to our country, but that doesn\u2019t mean I need to run for public office to accomplish that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay but still. The internet is freaking out, and perhaps for good reason. They&#8217;re at <a href=\"http:\/\/drudgereport.com\">full Drudge Sirens<\/a> over at The Drudge Report\u2014and it&#8217;s much the same here at Sprudge.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Howard Schultz is running for president&#8230;maybe. Or maybe even probably! But definitely not definitely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133582\" src=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/file\/2018\/06\/seal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jordan Michelman is a co-founder and editor at Sprudge Media Network. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sprudge.com\/author\/jordan-michelman\">Jordan Michelman on Sprudge.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by SeanPavonePhoto\/Adobe Stock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/howard-schultz-is-running-for-president-probably-133578.html\">Howard Schultz Is Running For President (Probably)<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\">Sprudge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Coffee News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking news here via the Coffee Tycoons With Political Ambitions newswire, as Starbucks Executive Chairman Howard Schultz has announced he will leave the company at the end of June 2018&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41],"tags":[63,45,65,47,61,49,59,67,55,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecurbkaimuki.com\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}