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Califoria leads the way in trying to legislate how private entities have to conduct business in order for the state to achieve the “diversity” it wants in the private workplace.
There were laws that prohibit discrimination and require equal opportunity, but there were no laws preexisting outcomes by race or sex. Until California passed a law with gender diversity mandates for private corporate boards of directors.
The law had the intended impact : The California law requiring a minimum number of women on public company boards has decimated the number of all-male boards since it passed in 2018, new data from the California Partners Project shows. Two years ago, 180 of the 650 public companies in California that are subject to Senate Bill 826 had zero women on their boards. That number has since shrunk to just 15, or 2.3% of company boards. Notably, only two companies in California — San Francisco-based Gap Inc. and Oakland-based e.l.f. Cosmetics — have five or more women on their boards, according to the project, a state initiative founded by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Because so many major tech companies are headquartered in California, the law had national implications: Effective, but possibly illegal.
The Philanthropy Roundtable blog reports on the California law and a recent 9th Circuit decision: In California, all publicly-traded corporations incorporated or headquartered in the state are mandated by law to have a certain number of female board members. As you know, the Philanthropy Roundtable filed an amicus brief in support of the Pacific Legal Foundation’s lawsuit (Meland v. Weber) to challenge this law on the grounds that it forces companies to discriminate on the basis of gender in their board member selections. A district court dismissed the Meland case on procedural grounds, finding that the plaintiff lacked the standing to sue. However, on June 21, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision. This means the case has the greenlight to move forward and be argued on its merits. This is an important victory in the fight against a patently discriminatory law. As […]
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker