McConnell, Weirdly, to CEOs: “Stay Out of Politics”
I’m sorry, what?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had harsh words and ill-advised advice this week for business leaders speaking out against voting law changes in Georgia. Like many members of the public, they believe the revisions passed by Georgia’s congress and signed by its governor will make voting more difficult, if not impossible, for many minorities.
Still, McConnell said, “I found it completely discouraging to find a bunch of corporate CEOs getting in the middle of politics,” at a press conference in his home state of Kentucky on Monday. “My advice to the corporate CEOs of America is to stay out of politics. Don’t pick sides in these big fights.”
You would think that someone like McConnell, who’s been in the US Senate since Homer’s dad was a pup, would have grasped, somewhere alone the line, that politics is business — a business, anyway.
He does, in fact, know that very well: He is in all but name, the Chief Executive Officers of the Senate. And he plays that role in a more domineering way than even a minority of the bosses at private-held- companies.
(Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, the US’s second-largest employer, has long been criticized for undervaluing his workers — there are now close to 1,000,000 of them…
