Star Tribune finally notes Sutton-Baja split; Bluestem Prairie reported story March 7

Back on March 7, Bluestem reported Career opportunities: Bridget Sutton is "no longer with" Baja Sol.

According to our sources, Sutton left Baja Sol around February 17.

Today, March 19, the Star Tribune reports that Suttons bid adios to Baja Sol chain:

The south-of-the-border-themed commercial marriage of Minnesota Republican Party boss Tony Sutton has ended in an "amicable" divorce from banker Bill Cooper, who headed the Republican Party a decade ago.

Cooper and Tony and Bridget Sutton bought the Baja Sol chain, in which the Suttons were franchisees, in 2006.

"Bridget and I are no longer a part of the ownership of Baja Sol," Sutton said in an e-mail. "Our separation was amicable."

The details of the "divorce" settlement aren't clear in the Neil St. Anthony story. However amicable the separation was, my understanding is that Mr. Cooper was the one to keep the "house." 

And there's a new suitor (and this was the name Bluestem heard):

"The agreement between Tony Sutton and Bill Cooper was ended and the Suttons are no longer minority owners," said Dan Edward, a 35-year Cooper associate who has taken over Baja Sol and invested alongside Cooper. "I was here on a consulting basis for three months before I succeeded Bridget."

Must have been one heckova pre-nup or something.

Image: Good-bye to the bank, via Tild's El Banco de MNGOP.

Comments

[Charlie Quimby]

I think the definition of "amicable" in a case where an employee runs the business into the ground is: go away; go very far away and do not list me as a reference.

[Phoenix Woman]

Reminds me of a joke I heard the other day:

What do the StarTribune and BajaSol have in common nowadays? They're both 100% owned by shadowy Republican bankers. (Just waiting for the Coopers to hire Doug Tice and for Tony Sutton to become the Strib's new editor.)