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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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.
It appears that Texas is missing from this list. WTF?!
Good! I hope more comes of this than the Disney charade.
My thought exactly. Not sure where Abbott is on this.
Disney was not a charade. They paid a penalty for their actions.
Some people believe anything they’re told.
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.
Paging Henry McMaster, what say thee?!?
If a RINO like Sununu can put his blue-leaning state on the list, what’s up with Abbott and McMaster?
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.
Indiana also had a weak RINO,
HAS
exactly...what’s up ?
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.
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!
Florida is THE most powerful state in the union......watch and learn.....
Ha.... Fish rots from the head down .. pay attention.
It certainly 'trumps' juvenile, trash-mouth, political bullying.
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