A mayor in Louisiana bans his city's recreation facilities from buying or using Nike products

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(CNN)A day after Nike announced Colin Kaepernick as the face of the brand's 30th anniversary ad campaign, a city mayor in Louisiana issued a memo banning the purchase and use of any Nike products at the city's booster clubs and recreation departments.

Ben Zahn, the mayor of Kenner, Louisiana, addressed the September 5 memorandum to Chad Pitfield, the director of the Parks and Recreation Department.

"Under no circumstances will any Nike product or any product with the Nike logo be purchased for use or delivery at any City of Kenner Recreation Facility," the memo read.

Signed by Zahn, the memo also said the move was effective immediately, and that any athletic purchases made by any booster club operating at any Kenner Recreation Facility must be approved by Pitfield or his designee.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/us/kenner-louisiana-mayor-bans-city-nike-purchases-trnd/index.html

[bullwinkle428]

1. "FREEDOM FRIES!!1!1!"

[oasis]

2. Great way to show citizens of your town you're on the job.

[CatMor]

3. Ridiculous, useless and petty ....

so many officials in government are not needed if their day is taken up issuing such nonsense orders. The only thing he's proving is what a asshole he is.

[SWBTATTReg]

6. I agree...doesn't seem to fit in his job description and is awful petty and stupid...I'd like to ...

think that best bid in response to city requests for proposals of materials and services would be better...regardless of who responds...

[Trust Buster]

4. We should all be boycotting NIKE products. The NIKE slums that their workers have to live in

Around the world are disgraceful. These people are not even paid enough to meet their basic needs in a third world country. NIKE makes these poor souls live on $1.25 a day. Shame on NIKE.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. And they are not the only ones either...there are a lot of companies like this...nt

[Initech]

7. Trump fans behaving like the bullies they.