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DeSantis forms alliance with 18 governors to combat Biden's ESG push: 'Direct threat to the American economy'
Fox News ^ | March 16, 2023 | Aubrie Spady

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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DeSantis leading the way again, standing and fighting against the woke mob.
1 posted on 03/16/2023 9:53:54 AM PDT by TBP
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But what about this other thread this morning , where DeSantis was condemned as being too liberal on climate change? That was a deal breaker according to at least one commenter there.


2 posted on 03/16/2023 9:56:29 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The title is a lie.. but what else can one expect from the foxes…. Saint Desantis ‘joined’, Not formed.. this guy will be walking on water in the next deception..
3 posted on 03/16/2023 9:57:15 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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It appears that Texas is missing from this list. WTF?!


4 posted on 03/16/2023 9:58:35 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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DeSantis forms alliance with 18 governors to combat Biden's ESG push: 'Direct threat to the American economy'

Good! I hope more comes of this than the Disney charade.

5 posted on 03/16/2023 10:00:15 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: 38special

My thought exactly. Not sure where Abbott is on this.


6 posted on 03/16/2023 10:10:47 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: FreeReign

Disney was not a charade. They paid a penalty for their actions.


7 posted on 03/16/2023 10:11:02 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Some people believe anything they’re told.


8 posted on 03/16/2023 10:11:46 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Just mythoughts; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; ...
"The title is a lie.. but what else can one expect from the foxes…. Saint Desantis ‘joined’, Not formed.. this guy will be walking on water in the next deception.

You're wrong. A mojority of news sources are framing this governor's organization as something that DeSantis spearheaded.

I don't know where you are getting your unthinking hatred from, especially in light of such a positive and long-overdue development, but you need to re-assess your perceptions, as well as your sources.

Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

9 posted on 03/16/2023 10:15:42 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: TBP

Paging Henry McMaster, what say thee?!?


10 posted on 03/16/2023 10:19:22 AM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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OK… I realize that KY and LA are currently saddled with rat guvs, but where are TX and SC?

If a RINO like Sununu can put his blue-leaning state on the list, what’s up with Abbott and McMaster?

11 posted on 03/16/2023 10:25:53 AM PDT by rhinohunter (“Being woke means you’re a loser” — Donald J. Trump)
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The thing I see big picture is that DeSantis is succeeding at each step, despite the odds. Trump picked bad people, ran things out unprepared and they got stopped time and again. Imagine how much more successful Trump might have been had he picked better people, had they thought through things, instead of rushing. At times I actually was beginning to wonder if some things were in put out with the expectation of them being overturned before the ink was dry. Trump and DeSantis have different styles, are surrounding themselves with different people.


12 posted on 03/16/2023 10:27:05 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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Indiana also had a weak RINO,


13 posted on 03/16/2023 10:27:30 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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HAS


14 posted on 03/16/2023 10:28:13 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: 38special

exactly...what’s up ?


15 posted on 03/16/2023 10:34:15 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: jagusafr

Abbott is MUCH closer to being Pence than he is Trump or DeSantis. TX has a very good AG but the Governor is a squish.


16 posted on 03/16/2023 10:34:26 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Joe Brower
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.

Who is NOT included in the above named states? I despise deception ... Desantis did NOT spearhead this alliance, he joined. I am NOT impressed by a Yale lawyer circumventing state law, and pretend like he is NOT...

All of saint Desantis supporters would demand a democrat governor playing the same hide and seek game to resign. I do not do double speak or double standards... IF that fits your definition of hate, that is on you!

17 posted on 03/16/2023 10:35:28 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Just mythoughts

Florida is THE most powerful state in the union......watch and learn.....


18 posted on 03/16/2023 10:40:33 AM PDT by blackberry1
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To: blackberry1

Ha.... Fish rots from the head down .. pay attention.


19 posted on 03/16/2023 10:45:23 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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DeSantis leading the way again, standing and fighting against the woke mob.

It certainly 'trumps' juvenile, trash-mouth, political bullying.

20 posted on 03/16/2023 10:45:33 AM PDT by pt17
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