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Article: Pampered Chef Reps Quit Over Owner's Pro-Choice Donations
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- The State Journal
- Article date:
- March 28, 2003
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MARTINSBURG-Tara Siler is phoning women across the Eastern Panhandle who have spent thousands of dollars with her on The Pampered Chefs line of baking stones, apple wedgers, cookbooks and other kitchen items over the past four years.
She's not hoping to make a followup sale. In fact, the Martinsburg mother of two wants to explain that she has quit her profitable parttime job because of The Pampered Chef's new ownership: Warren Buffett's Omaha-based Berkshire Hathaway.
In the past two months, The Pampered Chef has become the target of a boycott by abortion opponents because of the billionaire investor's considerable donations to Planned Parenthood, as well as speculation that Berkshire ...