'Political unrest is bad for business':
Starbucks chair encourages 100 corporate
leaders on Zoom call to fight to stop
voting laws being changed across the US
as heads of PayPal, Pepsi and other major
firms agree to publicly oppose them
Posted By: Ribicon, 4/11/2021 10:07:49 PM
More than 100 corporate leaders joined in a Zoom call on Saturday to discuss ways they could counter new voting regulations that some see as a move to reduce electoral participation. Their call was convened in response to new rules in Georgia, signed into law by the governor on March 31, which critics say brings back Jim Crow-era restrictions. Executives who have said they would sign on include ones from: Pepsi, PayPal, Starbucks, AMC Entertainment, Merck, Hess and T. Rowe Price, according to The Wall Street Journal.(Snip) Mellody Hobson, chairwoman of Starbucks' board, said on the call that political unrest is bad for business,
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Big Business working hand in hand with a thoroughly corrupt federal government? "That's the free market at work," say the Republicans. Political unrest is not Marxists burning cities or stealing elections, but rather people who want at least the illusion that their votes count. Maybe they should demand arrest of dissidents, as in the good old Soviet days? Surveillance cameras at participating stores will identify enemies of the state and call the authorities, maybe even detailing them on their own.