Washington Examiner: Boardroom Initiative takes up fight against woke corporations

April 21, 2022
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From the Washington Examiner: 

Fighting woke corporate politics is the focus of former McDonald’s CEO Ed Rensi.

Rensi, who has also sat on the boards of Famous Dave’s, Great Wolf Resorts, and Snap-on Inc., announced he is joining forces with conservative advocacy groups to create the Boardroom Initiativean advocacy coalition that will fight against corporate boardrooms that mix company policy with U.S. politics.

“Corporations have no business being on the Right or the Left because they represent everybody there, and their sole job is to build equity for their investors,” Rensi told Fox Business Wednesday.

The former McDonald’s president and U.S. CEO will be the executive chairman of the coalition, which includes Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus’s the Job Creators Network, along with the Free Enterprise Group and Second Vote.

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