The League of United Latino Citizens is launching a NATIONAL boycott of Wells Blue Bunny products because at least four members of the family that own the Wells dairy in Le Mars have financially supported Congressman Steve King. Joe Enriquez Henry of Des Moines is a national vice president of LULAC — the League of United Latino Citizens. Henry says King has sown “hate and fear” about Latinos with a string of statements, the most recent about how western civilization cannot be restored with “other people’s babies.”
Henry says in the past six years, Wells family members have given King more than 34-thousand dollars in campaign donations and it’s time for the family to quit backing King.
Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican who has also received donations from the Wells family, has denounced King’s comments, including King’s prediction of a “looming race war between blacks and Hispanics.” But Branstad says a boycott “isn’t fair.
According to the company’s website, Wells Enterprises makes 150 million gallons of ice cream each year. It is sold under “Blue Bunny” name as well as other brands like “Weight Watchers” frozen treats. Mike Wells, the company’s president and C-E-O, is currently chair of the International Ice Cream Association.
