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After months of getting the cold shoulder from large corporations who refused to endorse his COVID-19 policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis had harsh things to say Thursday at the annual meeting of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, blasting what he called “the rise of corporate wokeness.”
“If you’re using your power as a corporation, and you’re leveraging that to try to advance any ideology, I think it’s very dangerous for this country and I’m not just gonna sit idly by,’’ DeSantis warned as he presented the keynote speech to the audience at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress resort in Orlando.
In the rambling 30-minute speech, DeSantis warned the business audience that he has no tolerance for corporations that use their influence for political messaging.
“Do you want to be more of a political actor or more of a business actor?’’ he asked, chastising the decision by Major League Baseball to pull its All-Star game out of suburban Atlanta after Georgia passed new election rules intended to make it harder to vote in the state’s urban areas.
“Don’t ever think that caving to the mob is going to save your bacon,’’ DeSantis said. “That’s just going to cause them to come back more.”
He then warned that such behavior from companies will elicit a rebuke from politicians like him.
After months of getting the cold shoulder from large corporations who refused to endorse his COVID-19 policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis had harsh things to say Thursday at the annual meeting of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, blasting what he called “the rise of corporate wokeness.”
“If you’re using your power as a corporation, and you’re leveraging that to try to advance any ideology, I think it’s very dangerous for this country and I’m not just gonna sit idly by,’’ DeSantis warned as he presented the keynote speech to the audience at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress resort in Orlando.
In the rambling 30-minute speech, DeSantis warned the business audience that he has no tolerance for corporations that use their influence for political messaging.
“Do you want to be more of a political actor or more of a business actor?’’ he asked, chastising the decision by Major League Baseball to pull its All-Star game out of suburban Atlanta after Georgia passed new election rules intended to make it harder to vote in the state’s urban areas.
“Don’t ever think that caving to the mob is going to save your bacon,’’ DeSantis said. “That’s just going to cause them to come back more.”
He then warned that such behavior from companies will elicit a rebuke from politicians like him.
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