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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

[thread] Vivek Ramaswamy

Vivek Ramaswamy Used Dark Money Connections to Enrich Investment Firm
https://jacobin.com/2023/08/vivek-ramaswamy-strive-pensions-ethics-esg-leo

* possible ethics rules violations re: lobbying
* GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
* leveraged right-wing dark money relationships to win lucrative public pension investments & consulting business from state financial officers
* Vivek Ramaswamy, “anti-woke” asset manager Strive Enterprises

#StriveEnterprises #SFOF #DarkMoney #LeonardLeo #Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars

Vivek Ramaswamy Used Dark Money Connections to Enrich His Investment Firm

GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has leveraged relationships in the right-wing dark money world to win lucrative public pension investments and consulting business from state financial officers — possibly violating ethics rules around lobbying.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

cont'd

* Ramaswamy, Strive relied in part on relationships w. conservative state officials who belong to State Financial Officers Foundation
* SFOF: nonprofit organization that does not publicly disclose its donors
* closely linked to conservative activist Leonard Leo

https://persagen.com >> search:
"State Financial Officers Foundation"
"State Financial Officers Foundation" AND Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy AND "leonard leo"
"leonard leo"

#StriveEnterprises #SFOF #DarkMoney #LeonardLeo #Ramaswamy

Persagen.com

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 29, 2023

Addendum 1

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Idiotic New Plan: Every American Must Take a Citizenship Test
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110674254890549500

Vivek Ramaswamy Wants Everybody to Get a Piece of the Swamp
GOP presidential candidate/billionaire Ramaswamy wants everyone profit f. corrupt campaign fundraising
It’s an undemocratic vision of campaign financing that insists on making the problem of money in politics worse not better
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110718944648957375

#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #DefundBillionaires #GOPmenace

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 1, 2023

Addendum 2

Articulate Ignorance of Vivek Ramaswamy
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/opinion/ramaswamy-political-ignorance.html

* poor leadership transforms civic ignorance f. problem to crisis
* catastrophic effects on U.S., ultimately world
* 1943: 77% Americans knew nothing about Bill of Rights
* 1952: only 19% could name 3 branches of gov. (38% in 2011)
* Ramaswamy is exceptionally articulate but woefully ignorant about public affairs

#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #DefundBillionaires #GOPmenace #ignorance

Opinion | The Articulate Ignorance of Vivek Ramaswamy

What’s worse than voters who don’t understand how government works? Candidates who don’t.

The New York Times

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Addendum 3

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Teaching GOP to Weaponize Climate
The candidate is demonstrating a new way of Republican campaigning: with climate change front and center
https://newrepublic.com/post/175308/ramaswamy-republicans-weaponize-climate-change

* “The climate change agenda is a hoax,” he said. “The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”

#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #DefundBillionaires #GOPmenace #ignorance #ClimateChange #ConspiracyTheorists #GlobalWarming #capitalism

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Teaching the GOP to Weaponize Climate

The candidate is demonstrating a new way of Republican campaigning: with climate change front and center.

The New Republic

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 2, 2023

Addendum 4

Obnoxious, Bigoted Businessman Rising in GOP Polls: It’s Not Trump
After the first GOP debate, Ramaswamy appears to be fighting DeSantis for second place in the Republican primary
https://truthout.org/articles/an-obnoxious-bigoted-businessman-is-rising-in-gop-polls-and-its-not-trump

* at Wisconsin GOP debate Mike Pence spoke most minutes
* h/e billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy talked loudest/aggressively
* railed against “hoax” of climate change; U.S. aid to Ukraine; “woke” politics, social justice movements

#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #ClimateChange

An Obnoxious, Bigoted Businessman Is Rising in GOP Polls — and It’s Not Trump

After the first GOP debate, Ramaswamy appears to be fighting DeSantis for second place in the Republican primary.

Truthout

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 3, 2023

Addendum 5

Vivek Ramaswamy Combining Climate Denialism w. Attack on “Woke Capitalism”
Presidential candidates usually write memoirs before running
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/vivek-ramaswamy-finance-esg-republican-primary-woke-capital-book-climate-denial

* Vivek Ramaswamy’s "Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn’t Vote For" is something different: confused, paranoid attack on “woke capitalism"

#Ramaswamy #GOP #CultureWars #populism #ClimateChange #wokism #WarOnWoke #WokeCapitalism #capitalism #DefundBillionaires

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Combining Climate Denialism With an Attack on “Woke Capitalism”

Presidential candidates usually write memoirs before running. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn’t Vote For is something different — a confused and paranoid attack on “woke capitalism.

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 22, 2023

Addendum 6

Investment Firm Cofounded by Vivek Ramaswamy Holds Shares in BlackRock
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/09/22/investment-firm-cofounded-by-vivek-ramaswamy-holds-shares-in-blackrock

* tries to be most anti-woke GOP presidential candidate
* sharpest attacks v. big 3 asset management firms: Vanguard; State Street; BlackRock
* his company, Strive Asset Management, manages ETF that incl. BlackRock

https://persagen.com/docs/vivek_ramaswamy.html

https://persagen.com >> search:
"state street"
vanguard
"black rock" OR blackrock

#Ramaswamy #GOP #WokeCapitalism #BlackRock #Vanguard #StateStreet

Investment Firm Cofounded by Vivek Ramaswamy Holds Shares in BlackRock - EXPOSEDbyCMD

Ramaswamy’s own conflict of interest in attacking BlackRock shows just how difficult it is for public pension managers to avoid ESG investments if they own any ETFs — as do most pension funds — since they represent the most significant stocks bought and sold on the market every day.

EXPOSEDbyCMD

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Peter Principle Sep 3, 2023

@persagen The hysterically funny non sequitur in that title is a Silicon Valley billionaire tech bro arguing that the "people" should have the right to vote on what capitalists do with "their" money.

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