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To: Spirit of Liberty

Conservative group launches ad campaign against ‘woke capitalism,’ targeting CEOs by name

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/conservative-group-launches-ad-campaign-targeting-nike-coca-cola-american-airlines-ceos.html

A conservative group is launching an advertising campaign Tuesday designed to push back against what it sees as “woke capitalism,” spending more than $1 million on ads targeting the CEOs of Coca-Cola, American Airlines and Nike.

The ads are sharply critical of the CEOs on a range of issues ranging from childhood obesity to allegations of forced labor in China. Organizers say the campaign, which is being mounted by the conservative group Consumers’ Research, is designed to change the thinking in corporate boards around the economic and political costs of getting involved in flashpoint issues such as voting rights.

“Increasingly we’re seeing companies taking their eye off the ball,” said William Hild, executive director Consumers’ Research. “Our focus is always on the consumer. And that’s what it should be for these companies as well, but increasingly we’re seeing them work to curry favor with woke politicians, rather than focusing on serving their consumers.”

The dark money group says it will not disclose who is financing the campaign, saying it respects donors’ privacy. Consumers’ Research says it will run the ads on CNBC, Fox Business and local stations in the cities where the companies are headquartered. There will also be an online component to the campaign.

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Like how they call them a ‘dark money group’. Bet they wouldn’t call a liberal organization doing the same thing against conservatives ‘dark money’.


3,985 posted on 05/18/2021 10:40:31 AM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: Spirit of Liberty; gubamyster; jennychase

I like that, pushing back!

Found another article that was so outrageous I posted on main forum.

Yellen pushes higher taxes, stronger unions, more global competition to U.S. Chamber

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960333/posts

Sending jobs to other countries is just healthy competition. And getting the world to agree with a global minimum corporate tax will discourage our companies from moving.


4,001 posted on 05/18/2021 12:19:57 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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