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New Rubio Bill Helps Shareholders Fight Back Against Woke Corporations [1]

['Joanner Pena']

Date: 2021-09-23  +00:00

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced the Mind Your Own Business Act, which would enable shareholders to hold woke corporations accountable. Specifically, the legislation would require corporate directors to prove their “woke” corporate actions were in their shareholders’ best interest in order to avoid liability for breach of fiduciary duty in shareholder litigation over corporate actions relating to certain social policies. It would also incentivize corporate management to stop abusing their positions to advance left-wing social policies by increasing their personal liability to shareholders for breaches of fiduciary duty resulting from those policies. Rubio announced the bill during an appearance with Maria Bartiromo on Mornings with Maria and in a Fox Business op-ed.



The bill text may be found here.

“Patriotic Americans who love their country and the opportunity it provides should be able to fight back against the growing tyranny of the woke elites running corporate America,” Rubio said. “These are often nationless corporations that amass fortunes divorced from the fate of our great country while pushing socially destructive, far left policies like boycotts and cancel crusades at home. My Mind Your Own Business Act would put the burden of proof on corporations to show that their far left actions were in shareholders’ best interests, and make corporate directors and officers personally liable if they can’t prove it.”

“No more legal tricks that shield these corporate executives from accountability,” Rubio continued. “If they really believe that being woke is good for business, they should have to say so—and prove it—under oath in court.”

Rubio’s Mind Your Own Business Act is a private-sector solution to the problem of woke corporations. Specifically the bill:

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