Updated May 3, 2021 1:45 pm ET
What business does a CEO have in politics? Many Americans would say none, but corporations have interests and it is not only the right but the duty of chief executives to advance them, including through the political process. Yet there’s a reason they tend to do so quietly: Too much publicity risks drawing the ire of Americans who worry that public policy is warped for private advantage. But today, major CEOs have embarked on a most unusual political intervention.
In speaking strongly against a new voting reform passed in Georgia, CEOs of big companies such as Delta and Coca-Cola have claimed to be acting in the public’s interest. But the public isn’t so sure. A March 30 poll from YouGov found that Americans support requiring a photo ID to vote absentee, 53% to 28%. Results like these raise the question of whether CEOs are responding not to public outcry but to the targeted pressure of an ideological activist minority.
Below you’ll find different answers the Editorial Page has published to this and other questions about CEOs and the Georgia law. In “ ,” the Editorial Board criticizes statements from big-time CEOs for their vagueness and inaccuracy: “They’re denouncing Georgia’s election law, but have they read it?”,” he lays out four reasons executives shouldn’t take public positions on this law. “At the end of the day,” he writes, “corporations and the idea of capitalism will be in lower repute.
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opinion Enforcing the pitiless conformity of .. believing in universal suffrage as a right, or rather, merely giving lip service to that belief so that their customers don't think they're actually against it
opinion Pure capitalism is the worst ideology.
opinion No one is 'woke'. Understanding and dealing in reality & treating everyone with equally is just common sense. The rest of the right wing with your 'woke' commentary is just BS, both sidesism
opinion Y’all the ones that made dollars equal to speech..
opinion Woke CEO s aren’t a thing. A woke ceo is an unemployed ceo. 😉
opinion Here are the two choices: 1. CEOs respond to what their customers want and what drives them away. 2. The government should punish CEOs for responding to what their customers want and what drives them away. Guess which one the “small government “ guys want.
opinion woke ceo? what
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opinion Corporations have one goal: profits. If pulling support from right-wing politicians who advance nonsense helps them retain or raise profits, that’s what they’ll do. Republicans should ask themselves why their rhetoric is deemed so unprofitable rather than whining like this.