Over 100 Corporate Leaders Meet To Respond To Voter Integrity Laws
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Over 100 top corporate leaders participated in a call to discuss how they would respond to voter integrity laws that are being passed by GOP legislatures across the country.
CONFIRMED: First-of-its-kind call between more than 100 top corporate leaders on Saturday focused on how to respond to proposed changes in state voting laws. Participants included top leaders of airlines, media, law, investment.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) April 11, 2021
Those invited include leaders of @AmericanAir, @United, @AtlantaFalcons, @LeviStraussCo, @Walmart, @ViacomCBS, @ArielInvests, @LinkedIn, @Twitter, @AMCTheatres, among others, people familiar with the meeting tell @cbsnews.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) April 11, 2021
“The gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisals for exercising their patriotic voices,” said @JeffSonnenfeld, a @YaleSOM management professor who helped organize the confab.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) April 11, 2021
ALSO NOTABLE: “There was humor and mockery” about @LeaderMcConnell‘S calls for business leaders to “stay out of politics,” a comment he later walked back.
But participants said, “It wasn’t a primary area of discussion” and that meeting was in the works before McConnell’s words.
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) April 11, 2021
Conservatives hammered them over it:
We haven’t seen this level of corporate activism since Congress tried to stop slave labor in China. https://t.co/ErzTG0MCNv pic.twitter.com/z9EZAkBWRx
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) April 12, 2021
Oligarchy defined: The most powerful corporations in America get together to plan how to control legislation in dozens of states https://t.co/SO5XOb2n43
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 12, 2021
Corporations are your enemy. Remember you heard it here first. https://t.co/Ofhs8JgJRX
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 12, 2021
The American oligarchy is more dangerous to our rights than anything Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are planning https://t.co/ks0VY2y1So
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) April 12, 2021
“Build your own airlines, media conglomerates, theater empire, investment firms, big box retailers, etc.” — Conservative Inc probably https://t.co/FZvAxf95ci
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) April 12, 2021
Corporations are unifying w/ the state to ensure outcomes they prefer over the integral will of the people
This is literal fascism. Fortification 2.0
Billion $ corporations do not have our best interests in mind. We will resist their bull sh*#. Rebellion whispers in the dark https://t.co/jpZJf1XhjD
— ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) April 11, 2021
