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Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) broke his silence after he was arrested and escorted out of the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. The Gateway Pundit reported that Flaherty was removed at the shareholders’ meeting and was charged with “criminal trespass” after criticizing Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett for his support for Bill Gates’ organization and his association with convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Gates was also present during the meeting. WATCH: And bill gates was here 30 minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/7UV5F3aggb — Tykoo.eth (@0xTykoo) May 6, 2023 During the first minute...

VIDEO On Friday afternoon, I discussed Wal-Mart's support for ObamaCare and Cap and Trade with guest host Connell McShane on Your World With Neil Cavuto on Fox News Channel. That morning, I spoke in favor of our shareholder proposal asking for a report on Wal-Mart's lobbying priorities at the company's annual meeting in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Here's a transcript of the interview:Connell McShane (guest host): Wal-Mart today having its annual shareholders meeting, getting an earful from one group on the retail giant’s support of the new healthcare law also the cap and trade legislation. To the guy who is leading this...

A shareholder group is gaining momentum in its efforts to pressure companies to disclose charitable giving -- with donations linked to the Rev. Jesse Jackson... The National Legal and Policy Center has stepped up efforts to require corporations to disclose more details about their donations... The Rainbow/PUSH Citizen Education Fund, which in 2001 provided payments to Jackson's former mistress. The Church Falls, Va.-based non-profit group hit two shareholders meetings this week -- Boeing on Monday and PepsiCo Inc. on Wednesday. "Many shareholders would certainly object to their money going to a controversial and divisive figure like Jesse Jackson," said Peter...

Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), Tuesday denounced Lehman Brothers for apologizing for its alleged links to slavery, warning that such apologies, without legal or moral merit, will only embolden slave reparations activists to advance their unjust agenda. The bank, responding to a Chicago ordinance that requires companies to disclose slave-related business dealings, issued the apology after discovering that the brothers who founded the firm's predecessor in 1850 owned slaves. Joe Polizzotto, general counsel of Lehman Brothers, said, "This is a sad part of our heritage...We're deeply apologetic." Flaherty called the company's decision an act...

Coca-Cola Urged to Resist Jesse Jackson; Deval Patrick Resignation Applauded 4/21/2004 2:38:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Peter Flaherty of the National Legal and Policy Center, 703-237-1970 http://www.nlpc.org WASHINGTON, April 21 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center, today urged the Coca-Cola board of directors, with whom Jesse Jackson reportedly met yesterday, to resist further monetary and policy concessions to Jesse Jackson. Jackson accused the company of not complying with a "diversity agreement" between the company and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Jackson also protested the recent resignation of Coke General Counsel Deval Patrick,...

New York Stock Exchange Asked to End Jesse Jackson Support 1/12/04 6:01:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Peter Flaherty of the National Legal and Policy Center, 703-237-1970 or 703-864-7902 (cell) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following letter was sent today to John Thain, the incoming NYSE Chief Executive Officer, by Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center: On September 29, 2003, we asked that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) cease and desist from further support for Jesse Jackson and/or his organizations On October 23, 2003, media reports indicated that the NYSE had...

Peter Flaherty, President of the National Legal and Policy Center, today reacted to yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on McCain-Feingold: (Washington, DC) Campaign finance "reformers" have succeeded in sucking more life out of the First Amendment. What they ignore is that all speech is the expression of ideas. The distinctions made between political and nonpolitical speech are largely a fiction, as are those between hard and soft money to finance politics. The attack on certain kinds of speech, and certain kinds of spending to facilitate it, is an attack on all speech. The media seem to love McCain-Feingold, but they'd better...

<p>May 4, 2003 -- HOW fitting that Jesse Jackson has subjected NASCAR to his unique brand of activism. Like so much of Jackson's world, car racing involves noise, smoke and spinning in circles while ultimately going nowhere. Meanwhile, poor blacks in the bleachers wonder how this helps them.</p>

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing—also known as NASCAR—is the nation’s no. 1 spectator sport and the no. 2 television sport, but how many NASCAR fans know it is a financial supporter of the Rev. Jesse Jackson? In 2001, Jackson announced he had “ brokered” a deal involving Dr. Pepper’s sponsorship of a black-owned NASCAR racing team. NASCAR executive Brian France and NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. have both taken part in conferences sponsored by Jackson’s nonprofit group Rainbow/PUSH. Last July, NASCAR co-sponsored Jackson’s largest annual event, a conference convened by several Jackson nonprofits, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and...