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“Get government off our backs” that was President Reagan campaign slogan back in 1980, the Republicans have done an 180 degree turn. The Christian Science Monitor wrote back in 1980.
We must "get the government off the backs of the people," declared Ronald Reagan during the presidential campaign, building on the common belief that the Democrats favor active government and the Republicans private initiative.
Well now the Republicans are saying let’s control Wall Street and how you invest your money!
GOP’s `anti-woke' crusade splits corporate America
Giant asset managers are finding few friends in Washington as GOP lawmakers attack them for their climate and social agendas.
Politico
By Zachary Warmbrodt
December 27, 2022
Republican lawmakers are vowing to crack down on big investment managers pushing climate and social agendas. But the Wall Street giants are finding they have few defenders in Washington to help fend off the assault.The multitrillion-dollar asset managers — primarily BlackRock and its outspoken CEO Larry Fink, Vanguard and State Street — aren’t getting cover from major business trade groups whose members are divided on the issue. And they have no Republican allies, according to interviews with nearly a dozen industry representatives, lawmakers and climate advocates.
Some industry players feeling the heat are privately agitating for a more unified front against the attacks. But Republicans leading what they call the “anti-woke” charge in Congress said they’re feeling little resistance from business lobbying groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The GOP lawmakers say they have growing evidence that their effort is getting traction, with Vanguard walking away from an international climate change group in December.
“There is a fight within the banks and within the asset management firms about this,” Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), one of the pressure campaign’s top voices on Capitol Hill, said. “I am observing conflicting messages from within these companies, and what I’m asking is for these banks and asset managers to purge these people who want to bring their politics into the operations of these businesses.”
So now the Republicans want to tell where individual investors can invest their money… that sure doen’t sound like “getting the government off our backs” that sounds like they are getting government in your face!
In Washington, House Republicans who will be in the majority next year are eyeing hearings and a suite of bills to pressure the investment firms.
The asset managers “do have a very defensible case as to why they should be considering climate and sustainability risk in investing practices,” said Sierra Club campaign director Ben Cushing, who advocates for financial firms to stop backing fossil fuel projects. “They didn’t do a very good job of just explaining that, and they’re allowing themselves to be bullied by these bad-faith political attacks.”
The Republicans screams capitalism except when it doesn't suit their agenda, then corporations are some how bad all of a sudden!
Down in Florida DeSantis and the Republicans pushed through a law that is called in the press, Stop WOKE law!
How Florida’s Stop WOKE Act could impose a chilling effect on diversity efforts in the workplace
Fortune
By Amiah Taylor
May 3, 2022
Florida is the first state in the nation to officially restrict how workplaces can discuss racism and bias.Republican governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act, or Stop WOKE Act— a bill that regulates how schools and employers can talk about race and gender—on April 22.
“We believe an important component of freedom in the state of Florida is the freedom from having oppressive ideologies imposed upon you without your consent,” DeSantis said at the bill signing event at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens last month. “Whether it be in the classroom or whether it be in the workplace, we decided to do something about it.”
How in your face is that! So far the courts have said “Whoa! That violates the First Amendment!” funny how the Republicans are always holding up their little copy of the Constitution but they don’t like something they ignore it.
The Republicans were gun-ho on referendums “Let the people decide!” until they lost…
How Republicans are trying to block voters from having a say on abortion
Ballot initiatives have proven a winning strategy for abortion rights activists – but Ohio Republicans want to make it harder for voters
The Guardian
By Poppy Noor
December 19, 2022
Ohio advocates hoping to replicate a string of abortion rights victories fear being stymied by Republican lawmakers who are attempting to make it harder to pass citizen-initiated constitutional amendments.Ballot initiatives put directly to voters have proven a winning strategy for abortion rights activists since Roe v Wade was overturned this summer, with six referendums delivering favorable results for pro-choice advocates.
In Ohio, Republicans want to bring their own legislation, raising the threshold for successful ballot initiatives to 60%, up from the simple majority currently required to amend the state constitution.
“The instinct from conservative lawmakers to make it harder for their voters to decide on the core issues that matter to them most is fundamentally an assault on voting rights,” says Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, an organization that supports progressive ballot initiatives in red and purple states. “Those lawmakers know their ideological views are out of sync with their voters [and] they are trying to change the rules of the game.”
Once again when it doesn’t go the Republican way they want to change the rules.
They are in women’s faces with abortion getting you and your doctor!
They are in trans children’s faces on medically necessary healthcare!
They are in children’s faces over what they can and cannot read!
The new Republican motto… “Government in your face!”
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