We Don't Need a Stinkin' Dunkin!

Seriously people? Seriously!!!????

Des Moines has been BETRAYED !!

Someone NOT from Des Moines started an Actly initiative to bring a Dunkin' Donuts chain to Des Moines. And Des Moines Tweeps are voting it up!

Please help bring a @DunkinDonuts Location to Iowa! Show your support! http://act.ly/1 RT to sign #dunkiniowa (I intentionally broke this link, if you want to vote for it, you go do your own search to find out where.)

First of all: Shame on you! Y'all preach and preach about local DES MOINES business, then what do you do!? You support a National CHAIN. Looking at you who have signed this thing own or work at local businesses who would FREAK if national chains came in and were doing what you do...quite possibly better, cheaper?

Second of all: We already have all of coffee we need RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. Tweeps who I PERSONALLY HAVE SEEN ENJOYING FREE WIFI AT LOCAL SHOPS are tweeting that they want one! TRAITORS!

We NEED local shops like:

Being There Coffee, Village Bean, Frederich's Java Joe's, Mars Cafe, Zanzibar, Kup o Kryptonite, Ritual Cafe and Grounds for Celebration!

DID I MISS ANY? LET ME KNOW!

So, Des Moines Tweeps, the next time you mindlessly sign some twit-brained poll, why don't you think about how YOU will look STUPID the next time you flap your gums about "how great Des Moines is" and "how much you love living here" when the local shops go out of business. Lots of problems come with empty real estate and don't think that a national chain will weap ONE TEAR for closing its doors. Starbucks opened and walked away from several Des Moines Metro properties earlier this year and NOTHING has replaced them.

OTHER TALKING POINTS:

• Don't forget there's chains--LOCAL chains! Kum & Go, Hy-Vee, Dahl's, CASEYS are BASED here in town, employ LOTS of people in their stores and at the Corporate level. You can get donuts to plaster right on your ass there.

• There isn't even evidence that it would be good for DD to come here. They have analysts, they know what we want and don't want. There is only ONE Krispy Kreme in town, and it looks pretty desolate every time I look over while I'm getting my oil changed!

• The Dunkin Donuts I am acquainted with are in large cities. There's no place to sit down, the people working there look strung out on drugs and could care less. Somewhere on my laptop there's a picture of a homeless guy taking a leak on a Dunkin doorstep, and I'm too lazy to find it.

• We pour thousands and thousands of dollars into the local Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Having another sugar-factory in town is flying in the face of all of their efforts!

• Junior League of Des Moines (might I add that *I* was the one who advocated for this particular focus) has changed its focus from literacy to CHILDHOOD OBESITY. What does DD do for that community initiative?

• ADDED: My Twitter friend and Buying Local advocate @dlayphoto recommends: http://www.the350project.net/home.html