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   On Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced   
   legislative proposals and executive actions intended to shield   
   Florida residents from corporations pushing so-called woke   
   agendas as well as companies pushing an environment, social, and   
   corporate governance (ESG) agenda on consumers.   
      
   A rising conservative star, DeSantis intends to block such   
   corporations from making changes to society by instituting   
   corporate rules affecting the way that Floridians live their   
   lives — rules that could never be passed by a legislature.   
      
   “The leveraging of corporate power to impose an ideological   
   agenda on society represents an alarming trend,” DeSantis said.   
   “From Wall Street banks to massive asset managers and big tech   
   companies, we have seen the corporate elite use their economic   
   power to impose policies on the country that they could not   
   achieve at the ballot box. Through the actions I announced   
   today, we are protecting Floridians from woke capital and   
   asserting the authority of our constitutional system over   
   ideological corporate power.”   
      
   ESG regulations are largely the cause of serious unrest in Sri   
   Lanka and the Netherlands, where those governments agreed to   
   certain environmental measures that lead to decreased food   
   production and inflation. Both Sri Lanka and the Netherlands   
   have what are considered excellent ESG scores by entities that   
   measure such things.   
      
   ESG scores are used by many large financial institutions to   
   gauge how well entities such as nation-states adhere to certain   
   metrics based upon political affiliation, religious beliefs,   
   certain industry engagement, and other ESG benchmarks.   
      
   “We’re putting the people of Florida first, and we’re going to   
   do what’s in their best interest, not whatever the delusions of   
   some wealthy woke CEO wants to do,” DeSantis said.   
      
   DeSantis also blasted corporations — such as Disney — that are   
   using their corporate platforms to push woke ideology such as   
   transgenderism in the Sunshine State.   
      
   Disney was especially vocal in challenging DeSantis on the   
   state’s Parental Rights in Education Bill, dubbed the “Don’t Say   
   Gay” bill by LGBTQ extremists.   
      
   The speaker-designate for Florida’s House of Representatives   
   announced that the House was ready to ally with the governor in   
   his mission against ESG and “woke” governance.   
      
   “Woke elites use ESG investing to prop up far-left policies,   
   undermining our national security and raising prices for   
   Americans,” Representative Paul Renner (R) said. “The Florida   
   House will join the fight to stop woke financial titans who seek   
   to dictate policy to Floridians regardless of our choices at the   
   ballot box. I look forward to working with Governor DeSantis to   
   protect Floridians’ pocketbooks and strengthen our national   
   security.”   
      
   Among DeSantis’ proposals for the 2023 legislative session will   
   be to prohibit big banks, credit card companies, and money   
   transmitters from discriminating against customers for their   
   religious, political, or social beliefs; prohibit State Board of   
   Administration (SBA) fund managers from considering ESG factors   
   when investing the state’s money; and require SBA fund managers   
   to only consider maximizing the return on investment on behalf   
   of Florida’s retirees.   
      
   These proposals are aimed at amending Florida’s Deceptive and   
   Unfair Trade Practices statute, and are meant to forbid   
   discriminatory practices of large banks based on ESG scores.   
      
   Also, at the state’s next Board of Administration meeting,   
   DeSantis is expected to propose an update to the fiduciary   
   duties of the State Board of Administration investment fund   
   managers and investment advisors, which will clearly define the   
   factors they are allowed to consider in investment decisions.   
   None of those factors will be ESG scores.   
      
   DeSantis spoke in front of a large banner that read “Government   
   of Laws, Not Woke CEOs.” The governor spoke about the obvious   
   hypocrisy of CEOs and other wealthy climate activists who want   
   to “change the world” at the expense of other people’s rights.   
      
   “For every master of the universe who’s prattling on about, you   
   know, no emissions and all this stuff, I don’t see very many of   
   them giving up their private jets,” DeSantis remarked.   
      
      
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