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.
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"The gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisals for exercising their patriotic voices,” said , a management professor who helped organize the confab.
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But participants said, "It wasn’t a primary area of discussion" and that meeting was in the works before McConnell's words.
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Corporations allying with the party in power in its goal of attaining permanent power. We saw that in Europe in the 1930s.
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Corporations don’t have patriotic voices because corporations can’t vote.
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They vote with their money. You may want to research "Citizens United" which the GOP used to wedge corporations directly into politics assuming it would greatly favor them, and for the most part it has.
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