CEOs weigh donation, investment pullback over voting-rights restrictions

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A consortium of chief executives and other leaders of major U.S. corporations held an hour-long Zoom call Saturday to discuss ways to push for greater voting access amid new restrictions enacted or pending in Georgia, Texas and other states.

on Saturday to discuss ways to push for greater voting access amid new restrictions enacted or pending in Georgia, Texas and other states.

More than 100 business leaders joined the call, including Kenneth Chenault, former chief at American Express Co., and Kenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck & Co., who earlier led anamong Black executives condemning voter restrictions. Other participants included Scott Kirby of United Airlines Holdings Inc., Target Corp.’s Brian Cornell and D.E. Shaw & Co. Managing Director Eddie Fishman, according to a person who attended the call.

“We were delighted to find such enthusiasm from these top business leaders who rally around each other for mutual support,” Sonnenfeld said, calling it a “statement of defiance” against those who say business leaders shouldn’t have a political voice. “They refused to be intimidated and have very constructive ideas.”

 

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I hope all corporate CEOs will bear in mind that SenateGOP (the party that received generous donations from them) threatened them with punitive measures if they speak out against voter suppression laws. Ungrateful , dictatorship behaviour. Why continue to donate to the GOP?

Money is the only thing these politicians understand. Starve them.

What is there to weigh? They should have done that the very next day the governor signed that bill

this is terrible news

Who rules the Republic of America? Millionaire shareholders of course.

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