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Truth Sandwich Hate-a-Palooza [1]

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Date: 2023-03-05

Fact-checking CPAC 2023 claims about the FBI, fentanyl, IRS

Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla.: The Justice Department has been "calling parents that are concerned about what their kids are being taught, they are labeling them terrorists." FALSE

U.S. Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn.: "You pick up a dollar that’s got fentanyl on it and you’re dead." PolitiFact rated a similar claim False. [Drug powders do get on our paper money, but nowhere near enough to get high on.]

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.: A law Biden signed would "double the size of the IRS" so it can "harass every American." We’ve rated a similar claim Mostly False. [The IRS is delighted to have enough people again to answer phone calls.]

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: "Pervasive regulation, taxes, government controls — these are the things that are driving inflation and make your eggs so expensive today." No, it was bird flu.

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.: "The cartels have operational control of the United States-Mexico border." Exaggeration. [Most drugs are smuggled in via legal points of entry. There are no drug mules with “calves the size of cantaloupes.]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.: Says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants America’s "sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine." False. [Far beyond false, according to me.]

This is just a sampling of CPAC lies. Have another.

ESG

Bloomberg Law: Conservatives Use CPAC Platform to Galvanize Attack on ESG

Conservatives called ESG just “political activism”

Speakers drum up momentum for more bills opposing ESG Conservative activists—gathering for an agenda-setting, annual Republican conference—signaled the attack on those who believe environmental, social and governance criteria [ESG] should be used to guide investing is just getting started. The anti-ESG fervor running through this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, was evident from swag like anti-woke stickers and “stress balls” poking fun at climate change, and organizers offering tickets to a documentary warning of the evils of ESG.

I found a lot of pro-ESG videos on YouTube. I have no idea which anti-ESG video is meant here.

“ESG is just purely political activism,” said Oklahoma House Speaker Charles McCall (R), speaking on a panel called “The New Axis of Evil: Soros, Schwab, and Fink,” a reference to billionaire George Soros, the World Economic Forum’s Klaus Schwab, and Larry Fink, CEO of asset-management behemoth BlackRock. [Emphasis added]

Laurence Fink

That puts him right up with Soros for the haters.

“It undermines the financial returns and the focus of the fiduciary duty, that all of our pension administrators have to seek out the highest return of beneficiaries.”

Remember, at one time that would have included investing in enslaving Native Americans and Africans.

Just as with the courts, It’s only unacceptable activism when we do it.

Fink is regularly criticized by Republican politicians who say the asset manager uses other people’s money to push social values like fighting climate change. Fink said earlier this year that the ESG narrative has become ugly, and that he has never experienced such personal attacks. McCall, along with former CKE Restaurants CEO Andrew Puzder, said during a panel Friday that they’re actively designing and implementing policies to prevent ESG investing at the state level. The comments come on the heels of a push by congressional Republicans to overturn a Department of Labor rule that allows retirement advisers to consider ESG factors when advising clients.

Yup. That’s them.

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