GET ME REWRITE: Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds gives a master class in GOP hypocrisy

 

Headline:  Popular Information, 8/7/2023

Reynolds did not mention in her tweet that, less than a week before publicly trashing Bud Light, the RGA accepted a $25,000 donation from Anheuser-Busch. 

If Reynolds really believes that Anheuser-Busch, through its promotion with Mulvaney, is a malign force seeking to undermine American values, it's unclear why an organization she controls would accept Anheuser-Busch's money.  But Reynolds' conduct is not an anomaly. 

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) attacked Anheuser-Busch in a May 23 Wall Street Journal column as a company that embraced "ESG ideology." (ESG is an acronym for environmental, social, and governance issues.) Marshall, who also serves as the chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), testified at a Congressional hearing earlier in May that ESG was "a clear and present danger to consumers and to our democracy." ESG, Marshall said, was the work of "an unelected cabal of global elites" who are trying to "hijack our capitalist system" and "threaten hard earned dollars of American workers." 

But while Marshall publicly decries the "threat" from "woke" companies like Anheuser-Busch, he quietly takes its money. RAGA collected $100,000 from Anheuser-Busch this year.  [emphasis added]

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