Apple shareholder moves to boot Al Gore from board of directors ('limited skill set')

An activist shareholder is seeking to have climate change activist Al Gore removed from his long-standing position on Apple Inc.'s board of directors.

Corporate ethics watchdog National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed an exempt solicitation with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday that urged fellow Apple shareholders to vote against Gore as a director nominee at the tech giant's annual meeting, which is slated for March 10, arguing that the former U.S. vice president is not qualified for the role and that "his political activism poses to Apple a reputational risk that is not worth his limited skill set."

Gore is Apple's longest-serving director and was first elected to the board in 2003. The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs said in a statement at the time that "Al brings an incredible wealth of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having helped run the largest organization in the world - the United States government - as a Congressman, Senator and our 45th Vice President." Jobs added that the company was "excited and honored that [Gore] has chosen Apple as his first private sector board to serve on."

"Al Gore was never qualified to serve on Apple’s board in the first place, so for him to last for over 20 years is absurd," NLPC's Corporate Integrity Project Director Paul Chesser told FOX Business. "The only credentials he had, or has ever had, that meet any of Apple’s questionable criteria was that he’s been a Chicken Little for global warming. That term was so discredited that it’s now called 'climate change.' And so many of his other prophecies of doom have been proven untrue that he should be considered a false prophet."

He didn’t get the boot. ONE shareholder “urged fellow Apple shareholders to vote against Gore as a director nominee.”

2 posted on 02/25/2023 3:15:14 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)

3 posted on 02/25/2023 3:29:35 AM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)

The headline is misleading.

The action was initiated by an organization named the NLPC. A quick Google search reveals a conservative organization with impressive credentials. The Wikipedia entry called them “right-wing”, but then went on to list a number of achievements in court actions. Some even resulted in prison sentences for the people they exposed.

But, but, but I thought Al Gore invented the internet??????

If Algore invented the internet, who invented the cell phone?

6 posted on 02/25/2023 5:43:57 AM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)

Now he has more free time on his hands to pursue his real true passion; The hunt for Manbearpig.

7 posted on 02/25/2023 5:47:12 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)

That would be Jeffrey Epstein from his “cell”....

Poor Algore. The Rodney Dangerfield of American Politics.

9 posted on 02/25/2023 7:05:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")

Nice to see the ‘reputational risk’ shoe put on the other foot.

If Algore invented the internet, who invented the cell phone?

Martin Cooper , Son of Immigratants, A Chicagoan, working at Motorola in 1973. He is on the board of Motorolla last I knew and still lectures to engineers students across the midwest.

see Coopers Law.

11 posted on 02/25/2023 8:19:17 AM PST by protoconservative (Been Conservative Before You Were Born )

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

13 posted on 02/25/2023 9:53:24 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)

Very limited.

Hires based on sexual kink, pigmentation, and who your ‘daddy
and granddaddy were’ need to be fired now before other companies pick up all the ‘best and brightest’...

14 posted on 02/25/2023 11:03:09 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)

15 posted on 02/25/2023 11:44:32 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("There is no good government at all & none possible."--Mark Twain)

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