Posted on 03/16/2023 9:53:54 AM PDT by TBP
Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., joined forces with 18 GOP governors to reject President Joe Biden's environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) "agenda," claiming the push is a "direct threat" to the economic freedom of American retirees.
Governors in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming formed the alliance Thursday in what they described as an effort to ensure American retirement funds are not used for "woke" investments.
"Yet again, President Biden put his political agenda above the wellbeing and individual freedoms of hardworking Americans," the Republican governors wrote. "We as freedom loving states can work together and leverage our state pension funds to force change in how major asset managers invest the money of hardworking Americans, ensuring corporations are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology."
"The proliferation of ESG throughout America is a direct threat to the American economy, individual economic freedom, and our way of life, putting investment decisions in the hands of the woke mob to bypass the ballot box and inject political ideology into investment decisions, corporate governance, and the everyday economy," the states said.
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In the 2020 election cycle DeSantis took in excess of $14 million from the Republican Governors Association. The RGA’s top-twenty donor list includes many companies that PROMOTE ESG. We can assume they use it as an investment strategy. The fact that NO ONE in the media points out this blatant contradiction is another tip to DeSantis’ Uniparty creds.
They ALL take ESG money! This shouldn't be news to anyone.
Maybe it’s just me but I have a hard time understanding what you’re trying to say on your responses here.
Not true.
As Morton Blackwell always says, personnel is policy.
Don’t feel bad, the poster likely doesn’t even understand what they have typed themselves.
Another horrible, deep-state, RINO-driven move by that stealth candidate DeSantis.
Yep.
Is there an acronym for Trump or Nuthin’ FReepers yet?
Na, but like the Lyn’ Ted supporters, they’ll mostly get over it eventually. Right now, just dig out the popcorn and watch them embarrass themselves.
Agreed.
so I looked up the word to make sure I knew what it meant ..
*making a show of being morally superior to other people:* That campaign ad is the epitome of being morally superior, as if God and Desantis were on the same page. (gag me with a spoon)
Then I began to observe the wailing and gnashing of teeth here on FR against President Trump to speak ill of a deity... As they say poop runs downhill and here we are...
Take your own advice.
I read the article, and I still don’t know exactly what these 18 states are doing to “combat Biden’s ESG push.”
Good! There’s strength in numbers and he’s going about this the right way,
18 state Governors. Sounds like a new Confederacy is about to form. A new union of Red States to counter the excesses of the Deep State. Maybe its time to dissolve the Union once again or at least stand to object to the woke tide sweeping the nation and stand against World War.
Yep. He should either state it or not. Obozo announced his Presidential run in 2007 while being a U.S. Senator. DeSantis can do the same thing, rather than doing all the obvious preparatory stuff while not telling Floridians one way or the other. A blot on an otherwise fine governor, IMO.
(FD: I sent him a note urging him NOT to run, and that I wouldn’t support him in 2024. I like him where he is, doing good things for my state. I doubt that he’ll respond; even the good politicians aren’t all that different from the others, IMO.)
And your deliberate non-answer to my question "have you ever met the man?" indicates a solid "no".
Like I said, you don't know what you're talking about.
Nah. I saw all the anti-catholic drivel and I’ll speak to whomever however I want but thanks anyway
DeSantis leading the way again, standing and fighting against the woke mob.
But, but, no wait, he’s a shill for Ken Griffin and the GOPe! He’s deep state! /s
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