While on the surface Gamble’s ridding the south Philadelphia neighborhood of its blight
may be commendable its ulterior purpose of setting itself apart from the community in order to
follow the dictates of MANA and Shari’ah law is a worrisome proposition and should be a
warning sign to the people of Philadelphia.
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Rubio, Kim Strassel, The WSJ's Editorial Board and yours truly see eye to eye on this:
Rubio Slams ‘Woke Corporate Hypocrites’ for Working With China
Companies ripping Georgia do business in China, silent on ...
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1 day ago — However, all three companies – Apple, Delta Airlines and the Coca-Cola Co. – have been silent on the oppression of Uyghurs taking place in ...
And:
Corporate
America’s ‘Big Lie’
ID
requirements are no more racist at the ballot box than they are on a Delta
flight.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Corporate chieftains last year
criticized Donald Trump for
denying his re-election defeat. So it’s quite a spectacle to see them actively
spreading the left’s own big lie about elections.
According to Delta CEO Ed Bastian, there is only one
reason Georgia passed a voting reform: to suppress the votes of black Americans
and other minorities. Georgia’s Republican Legislature used the “excuse” of
voter fraud to “make it harder for many underrepresented voters” to “exercise
their constitutional right to elect their representatives,” Mr. Bastian wrote
this week in a memo to employees.
Mr. Bastian has plenty of company in
the C-suites. Some 72 black executives, including the CEO of Merck and a former
CEO of American Express, signed an open letter calling on corporate colleagues
to fight “undemocratic” and “un-American” GOP efforts across the states to
“assault” the “fundamental tenets of our democracy.” Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Apple chimed in, and dozens more are
readying outraged press releases.
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t be more thrilled.
Democrats and the activist left have long honed their techniques for
intimidating corporations. They successfully pressured companies into
withdrawing contributions from free-market groups, into embracing a
climate-change agenda, into refraining from political contributions, into
adopting new “social” investment criteria.
And
Opinion: Morning Editorial Report
By Editorial Board
Woke and Weak
CEOs
They’re
denouncing Georgia’s election law, but have they read it?
By The
Editorial Board
The
public debate on Georgia’s new voting law has become a stew of falsehood,
propaganda and panic. Part of the blame lies with the partisan distortion of
Democrats, part with their media echoes, and now part with CEOs of major
companies who are uninformed at best or cowardly at worst.
Start
with President Biden, the great unifier, who on Wednesday to ESPN called the
law “ Jim Crow on steroids,” while saying he’d “strongly support” moving the
Major League Baseball all-star game out of Atlanta. He’s picking up the smear
about Georgia from Stacey Abrams, who still hasn’t accepted that she lost the
race for Peach State Governor in 2018.
“You’re going to close a
polling place at 5 o’clock, when working people just get off?” he said to ESPN.
“This is all about keeping working folks, and ordinary folks that I grew up
with, from being able to vote.” Mr. Biden either doesn’t know what’s in the
Georgia bill or he is lying about it. We’d like to believe it’s the former, but
that gets harder to credit as his falsehoods multiply.
On Election Day in Georgia, anyone in line by 7 p.m. gets a
ballot. The new law requires an extra Saturday of voting, while specifying
early voting hours: The minimum is 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but counties may run 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. In metro areas, “you might not notice a change,” explains
Georgia Public Broadcasting. Elsewhere, “you will have an extra weekend day, and
your weekday early voting hours will likely be longer.”
Then there are the big
companies racing out PR statements of condemnation, though what’s often most
conspicuous is their vagueness. The voting law “is unacceptable and does not
match Delta’s values,” said the airline’s CEO, Ed Bastian. He groveled
that he’d had “time to now fully understand all that is in the bill.”
What a clumsy emergency
landing. Last week Mr. Bastian said that
“concerns remain” about the law, while he explained—accurately—that it “expands
weekend voting, codifies Sunday voting and protects a voter’s ability to cast
an absentee ballot without providing a reason.” He added: “For the first time,
drop boxes have also been authorized for all counties statewide.”
What changed in the interim? Could it be that he has bowed to
the woke mob, as the path of least political and commercial resistance? Why not
stay silent if you don’t know what you’re talking about or can’t stand the
heat?
Gov. Brian Kemp, who signed the bill, rightly called foul:
“Today’s statement by Delta CEO Ed Bastian stands in stark contrast to our
conversations with the company, ignores the content of the new law, and
unfortunately continues to spread the same false attacks.”
Or take Coca-Cola’s watery
statement. “We are disappointed in the outcome of the Georgia voting
legislation,” said CEO James Quincey. “Our focus is now on supporting federal
legislation that protects voting access and addresses voter suppression across
the country.” He cited no specifics about either bill. Apparently Coke’s secret
ingredient is pandering.
When woke progressives
target a company with tactics like a “die-in,” as Coke received
last month, CEOs seem to view a mealy-mouthed statement as cheap
insurance. But surely we should expect more from senior business executives,
who are supposed to have some backbone and concern for the facts. They’d react
with high dudgeon if similar falsehoods were spread about their companies.
Yet so much of this CEO
posturing cites no facts—or even fails to mention the word “Georgia.” American Express stands “against any efforts
to suppress voting,” said CEO Steve Squeri. “ BlackRock is concerned about efforts that
could limit access to the ballot,” said CEO Larry Fink. “Governments should be
working to make it easier to vote, not harder,” said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.
Georgia’s law does make
it easier to vote, though it also tries to reassure citizens about ballot
integrity. The state provides far
more days of early voting than New York. It offers no-excuse
absentee ballots, unlike Mr. Biden’s beloved Delaware. So who’s really
suppressing whom? Georgia’s new law puts limits on drop boxes, but as Delta’s
Mr. Bastian now regrets pointing out last week, it also makes them a permanent
part of the voting system. In 2019, before Covid, drop boxes were illegal.
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CEOs
may think there’s no downside to hopping on a bandwagon that insinuates that
Georgia’s GOP leaders are inveterate racists. But far from dodging our partisan
political warfare, they’re taking a side and promoting more division. They and
their companies may pay the price when the woke mob decides to turn on them and
they need GOP protection.
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More op ed's about what our president is up to these days:
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https://www.nysun.com/national/bidens-big-bill-full-of-nonsense-signifying/91462
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