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

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

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

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

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

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