Sadvocate on point today.

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An Amazon executive told The Sadvocate they did not change their minds about using the Cortana Mall site in Baton Rouge for their fulfillment center solely because 2 of their 3 company Escalades were stolen while touring the property last January. "That did kinda piss us off, yeah, but then some jackass who claimed to be a community leader, whatever the hell that means, emailed our HR department demanding we hire 95% black employees all of whom lived within 5 miles of the proposed location and said we could not perform background checks on them prior to their hiring. He then demanded we pay him a small finders fee for every employee we hired," said the executive. "He wanted payment in the form of gift certificates from Golden Corral Restaurant. That's where we drew the line and headed to Lafayette," the man said. "Your Governor assured us with all the locally owned businesses he's shut down for good there would be no shortage of desperate people looking for minimum wage work to keep their lights on," he told us in closing.

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