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No One Elected Woke CEOs
The Daily Signal ^
| March 18, 2022
| Betsy McCaughey
Posted on 03/22/2022 6:18:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Woke corporate CEOs seem to think they know better than voters what’s best for the country. These titans are throwing their companies’ clout and cash behind activists pushing gender-fluidity lessons for kindergarteners and other extreme political causes.
Expect this corporate activism to backfire. Corporations should be serving their customers, not trying to override the democratic process, like thousand-pound gorillas undoing what the electorate—including their own customers—wants.
Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek declared his opposition Friday to a Florida state bill that bans instruction for children in grades K-3 about choosing their sexual orientation. The bill also bars teachers from coaching children behind their parents’ backs on the issue.
Vowing to defend the “basic human rights” of the LGBTQ+ community, Chapek pledged $5 million to the Human Rights Campaign. Even that whopping amount of protection money wasn’t sufficient.
The next night, at its annual Hollywood-studded gala, the Human Rights Campaign removed Disney’s name from the corporate sponsors list. Its interim president, Joni Madison, spelled out the extortion: Disney’s money won’t be accepted until the company “puts real muscle” behind killing the Florida bill and others like it.
That’s what Hollywood thinks is good for America. But Florida voters, who elected the state’s lawmakers and Gov. Ron DeSantis, disagree.
DeSantis says he won’t back down on his commitment to “parental rights” under pressure from “woke corporations.”
Something similar is happening in Texas, where 65 corporations—including IBM, Capital One, and Apple—signed a letter in The Dallas Morning News written by the Human Rights Campaign opposing Gov. Greg Abbott’s investigation of instances where young children are being treated for transitioning. Abbott is concerned that youngsters and their parents may be misled into treatments that prove irreversible later.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Florida; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: apple; bobchapek; boycotthollywood; capitelone; corporations; disney; florida; getwokegobroke; greggabbott; hb1557; hollywood; homosexualagenda; hrc; ibm; lgbt; pedogrooming; rondesantis; texas; transgender; woke
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Virtue signaling CEOs have dirty laundry to hide in their personal lives. They are being blackmailed and owned.
Guaranteed.
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posted on
03/22/2022 8:26:31 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: wbarmy
“I thought shareholders elected CEOs.”
Shareholders elect the board of directors, The board of directors hires the CEO.
Most individual stockholders vote for the slate of board directors proposed by the company. Therefore the real power is in the people responsible for nominating the directors. The CEO, and current members of the board of directors choose the slate running in consultation with the top shareholders. Look at the list of the top five institutional shareholders and you will see where the power lies. Vanguard, Blackrock , State Street, Fidelity.
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posted on
03/23/2022 4:06:34 AM PDT
by
Soul of the South
(The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
To: SeafoodGumbo
Signed:- 23andMe
- 2U, Inc.
- Accenture
- Acxiom LLC
- The Adecco Group
- Adobe Inc.
- Advance Auto Parts
- AEO Inc.
- Affirm
- Airbnb
- AllianceBernstein
- Ally
- Altria Group Inc.
- Amalgamated Bank
- Amazon
- American Airlines
- American Express
- American Honda Motor Company
- Amgen, Inc.
- Anaplan
- Apple
- Applied Materials, Inc.
- Arcadis U.S. Inc.
- Asana, Inc.
- AT&T
- Atlassian
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- Baker Tilly US
- BASF Corporation
- Bayer US LLC
- BBVA USA
- BCW (Burson Cohn & Wolfe)
- Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
- Berkshire Bank
- Biogen
- Block, Inc. (Formerly Square, Inc.)
- Bloomberg LP
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- Bounteous
- Box, Inc.
- Bright Health Group
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions
- Brown-Forman Corporation
- Capital One
- Cardinal Health
- Cargill
- Cargo Transporters, Inc.
- Celanese
- Center for Community Self-Help
- Chobani
- Citigroup Inc.
- CNA Insurance
- The College Board
- Compass
- Corning Incorporated
- CSAA Insurance Group
- Curology
- CVS Health
- Dechert LLP
- Deckers Brands (UGG, HOKA, Teva, Sanuk and Koolaburra by UGG)
- Dell Technologies
- Deutsche Bank USA Corp.
- Dow Inc.
- Dropbox Inc.
- DWS Investments
- Early Warning Services, LLC
- Eastern Bank
- Elanco Animal Health
- Electronic Arts
- EMD Serono, MilliporeSigma and EMD Electronics
- Equinix
- Equitable
- Facebook
- FactSet Research Systems Inc.
- Fastly
- Flexport, Inc.
- GAP, Inc
- Gearbox
- General Mills
- GitHub
- GoDaddy
- Google
- GP Strategies Corporation
- Gusto
- H&M
- The Hartford
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- HP Inc.
- Hilton
- HSBC Bank USA
- Hyatt
- IBM Corp.
- ICM Partners
- IHG Hotels & Resorts
- IHS Markit
- IKEA
- Included Health
- Instacart
- Intel
- Interpublic Group
- Intuit
- Invitae Corporation
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kellogg Company
- The Knot Worldwide
- The Kraft Heinz Company
- LegalZoom
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- Lexmark International, Inc.
- LinkedIn
- Lululemon
- Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
- Lyft, Inc.
- Macy's, Inc
- Mailchimp
- Marriott International, Inc.
- Mars, North America
- Marsh McLennan
- MassMutual
- Mattel, Inc.
- Medtronic
- MetLife, Inc.
- Micron
- Microsoft
- Mobilize
- MolsonCoors
- Momentive
- Mondelez International
- New Belgium Brewing
- NextRoll, Inc.
- Nike, Inc.
- Nordstrom, Inc.
- Nuance Communications
- Okta
- Oracle Corporation
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- Patreon
- PayPal
- PepsiCo
- Peloton Interactive, Inc.
- Pinterest
- Pfizer
- PNC Financial Services Group
- PwC
- Randstad US
- Royal Bank of Canada
- RedFin Real Estate
- Red Hat, Inc.
- REI Co-op
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Shipt, Inc.
- Shutterstock
- Signet Jewelers
- Silicon Labs
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Starbucks
- State Street Corporation
- SunLife
- Sustainable Food Policy Alliance, including member companies Danone North America; Mars, Incorporated; Nestlé USA; and Unilever United States
- Symetra Life Insurance Company
- Synchrony Financial
- T-Mobile
- Target
- TD SYNNEX
- TechNet
- Teva Pharmaceuticals
- Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Tinuiti, Inc
- Trane Technologies
- Trillium Asset Management
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- Twitter Inc.
- Uber
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- Unilever United States
- Union Pacific
- United Airlines
- Unity
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- VMware
- The Walt Disney Company
- Warby Parker
- Warner Music Group
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- WE Communications
- Wells Fargo
- Workday, Inc.
- Xperi Holding Corporation
- Xylem
- Yahoo
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- Yext
- Ziff Davis
- Zillow Group
- Zoom Video Communications
- Zynga Games
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posted on
03/23/2022 5:22:03 AM PDT
by
Pollard
(PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Their boards put them there for a reason.
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posted on
03/23/2022 5:24:40 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
To: Pollard
I’m surprised that Woke-A Cola isn’t on there.
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