{"id":4815,"date":"2018-04-11T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=524c24fb8435aefdbae5040d9ac9b899"},"modified":"2018-04-11T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T13:56:16","slug":"ex-best-buy-ceo-resigns-from-5-boards-in-donations-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/ex-best-buy-ceo-resigns-from-5-boards-in-donations-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Best Buy CEO resigns from 5 boards in donations flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. &#8212; Former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson has resigned from the boards of five organizations following a report that he contributed to a non-profit organization that distributed inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Public Radio says Anderson resigned from its board of directors, as well as General Mills, Waste Management, Carlson and Mayo Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The nonpartisan research Center for Responsive Politics first reported that Anderson and Olympus Ventures, an investment management firm tied to Best Buy founder Richard Schulze, each contributed $25,000 to Secure America Now in 2016. Anderson and Schulze said they didn&#8217;t know about the videos and wouldn&#8217;t have donated if they had.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations had urged Anderson to resign from the boards of Minnesota Public Radio and General Mills.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Information from: Minnesota Public Radio News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.mprnews.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. &mdash; Former Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson has resigned from the boards of five organizations following a report that he contributed to a non-profit organization that distributed inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on social media. Minnesota Public Radio says Anderson resigned from its board of directors, as well as General Mills, Waste Management, Carlson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}