“This is a very big step forward,” said Scott Shepherd, general counsel at the National Center for Public Policy Research. Breitbart News Daily Conservatives say they plan to use a shareholder campaign to pressure Target to promote “wokeness.”
Shepherd is director of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP), which opposes the “woke takeover” of “corporate American life” and aims to defend “real capitalism.”
Face File Their work includes deliberating shareholder resolutions, negotiating with company CEOs and board members, submitting public comments, negotiating with state and federal leaders, drafting legislation, filing lawsuits, and conducting direct media campaigns to urge conscious companies such as Target and The Walt Disney Company to “honor their fiduciary duties and not engage in political or social engineering.”
Breitbart News Daily Host Mike Slater asked Target CEO Brian Cornell whether he was starting to wake up in the wake of conservative backlash over the company’s history of promoting LGBTQ and other conscious content.
“I’ve dealt with a lot of CEOs, directors, chief executives and so on, and they’re so arrogant and so out of touch with what’s going on in this country,” Shepherd explained to Slater, adding that it’s “hard to get anything around their heads.”
On June 12, Target will hold its annual shareholder meeting, where the Free Enterprise Project will have a chance to present its case to Target. issued A shareholder proposal seeking reporting on Target’s affiliations, charitable contributions and other support for certain organizations.
In a statement of support, FEP noted that Target’s paid partnerships with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Out & Equal and other organizations “actively promote radical gender theory in its stores, having a devastating impact on such work.”
Essentially, FEP, through its shareholder proposal, requested that Target’s board of directors conduct an evaluation to determine whether paid affiliations with LGBT organizations pose a financial risk to the company.
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