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(Salon) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) gave a briefing on Wednesday detailing his plan to regulate what he refers to as "woke CEOs." In front of a banner reading "Government of Laws, Not Woke CEOs," DeSantis said "The leveraging of corporate power to impose an ideological agenda on society represents an alarming trend."
"Do we govern ourselves through our constitution and through our elections or do we have these masters of the universe occupying these commanding heights of society?" DeSantis said during the press conference, covered by Florida news outlet The Free Press. "For every master of the universe who's prattling on about, you know, no emissions and all this stuff, I don't see very many of them giving up their private jets," he furthered.
"Gov. Ron DeSantis slams 'woke capital' and ESG, says Forbes in a Tweet, along with footage from the briefing.
The three main components of DeSantis' plan are as such:
Prohibit big banks, credit card companies, and money transmitters from discriminating against customers for their religious, political, or social beliefs.
Prohibit State Board of Administration (SBA) fund managers from considering ESG factors when investing the state's money.
Require SBA fund managers to only consider maximizing the return on investment on behalf of Florida's retirees.
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/27/ron-desantis-makes-plans-to-regulate-woke-ceos/
onecaliberal
(32,770 posts)gohuskies
(1,153 posts)Can this guy be more disgusting? He is a maggot through and through.
Sky Jewels
(7,006 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,276 posts)Sane Floridian voters better turn this joker out of office....or you'll pay the economic consequences.
LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)Both words fit perfectly with what's going down in a lot Florida now-a-days. If you're not a nazi, right-winged racist, Cuban population, or part of the right-winged Catholic Church or a Christofacist, you won't like most of Florida. Covid's rising sharply, yet not one negative word comes out of the mouths of most in the so-called liberal media which doesn't exist is calling DeathSantis out. They love them some DeathSantis 💖 The so-called liberal media which is really right-winged, greedy for ad dollars and corporate that is.
I feel for those stuck there who have to live and deal with NaziKing DeathSantis and his anti-woke stances, and for nazi stances because he says that talking about racism of the past scares young children, and is mostly behind us. He's also okay with removing ALL forms of contraception and abortion rights out of Florida. I guess those white racists down there who are with him will be okay with dying if they have pregnancy complications and with having kids they can't afford. Oh well ....
I can't wait until that big, square Nazi's karma catches up with him, which IMO is coming sooner rather than later.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,276 posts)* All Democrats
* All thinking Independents
* All thinking Republicans.
Seems like you could overwhelm this fascist political minority.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,411 posts)Florida has a bazillion righties that moved down from the north.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,037 posts)Sounds like Antifa Ron:
The leveraging of corporate power to impose an ideological agenda on society represents an alarming trend."
Maybe he isnt the good fascist we all fancy
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)Seems you have to really hate freedom to be a Republican these days.
ripcord
(5,256 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Geechie
(861 posts)"The leveraging of corporate power to impose an ideological agenda on society represents an alarming trend."
someone who was obviously sleeping during the entire Koch Bros/Murdoch regimes
Norbert
(6,038 posts)or will he make exceptions to his law?
spanone
(135,778 posts)Who the fuck does desantis think he is?
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)And who have religiously enabled the very growth of corporate power they now pretend not to like.
And hate unions, and hate workers making more money, and having more power in the workplace.
They're such a bunch of fucking gaslighters I swear to Dog.