It is Blackrock, Vanguard and one other company that is driving all this because they control the stock price.
7 April: NY Post: Inside the CEI system pushing brands to endorse celebs like Dylan Mulvaney
By Dana Kennedy
At stake is their Corporate Equality Index — or CEI — score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.
HRC, which has received millions from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation among others, issues report cards for America’s biggest corporations via the CEI: awarding or subtracting points for how well companies adhere to what HRC calls its “rating criteria.”...
The CEI is a lesser-known part of the burgeoning ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) “ethical investing” movement increasingly pushed by the country’s top three investment firms. ESG funds invest in companies that oppose fossil fuels, push for unionization, and stress racial and gender equity over merit in hiring and board selection.
As a result, some American CEOs are more concerned about pleasing BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street Bank — who are among the top shareholders of most American publicly-traded corporations (including Nike, Anheuser-Busch and Kate Spade) — than they are about irritating conservatives, numerous sources told The Post...
The HRC, which was formed in 1980 and started the CEI in 2002, is led by ***Kelley Robinson who was named as president in 2022 and worked as a political organizer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign...
In 2018, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who oversees assets worth $8.6 trillion and has been called the “face of ESG,” wrote a now-infamous letter to CEOs titled “A Sense of Purpose” that pushed a “new model of governance” in line with ESG values...
Fink has denied that ESG is political, but key staff managing his ESG operations worked in the Obama administration and donate to Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders...
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/inside-the-woke-scoring-system-guiding-american-companies/
Wikipedia: Kelley Robinson
***Kelley Robinson (born 1985/1986 is an African American community organizer who is the current president of the Human Rights Campaign. She was formerly the executive director of Planned Parenthood Action Fund...
In 2019, she became the executive director of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and vice president of organizing and advocacy. In this role, Robinson helped direct efforts to flip the U.S. Senate in the 2020 elections. While at Planned Parenthood, the number of supporters increased from 6.5 million to 18 million...
Robinson is now the current president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). She is the first queer Black woman to lead the organization...
In the month of December of the year 2022, Robinson testified before Congress on the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ extremism and violence...
Robinson married her wife, Becky George (a senior adviser for movement building at Everytown for Gun Safety) in 2020; they have one child together...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelley_Robinson
Obamas run things.
“It is Blackrock, Vanguard and one other company that is driving all this because they control the stock price.”
Have you taken a peak at the Anheuser-Busch InBev stock prices over the past 5 years? If you bought stock in 2018, I don’t think you will ever break even, let alone make a profit.