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Top executives seem to be wary of backlash from associating with former Trump officials.
By Tory NewmyerThe Washington Post
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Before she joined the Trump administration as transportation secretary, Elaine Chao earned millions of dollars over the past decade by serving on the boards of big public companies such as Dole Foods, Protective Life and Wells Fargo, according to corporate filings.
She offered sterling credentials to businesses eager to keep current with the Republican leadership: A former banking executive, she became the first Asian American woman to serve in a Cabinet when President George W. Bush tapped her to serve as labor secretary. She has been a regular at conservative think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and the Hudson Institute. Her husband is Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Former Trump cabinet officials are not being offered board seats by top companies
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‘Turn-around Guy’ Ted Budd Could Be the Unexpected Surprise in 2022 Senate Races
When Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) completed his studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in 1998, he believed he was called by God to return to his family’s business in North Carolina even though he and wife Amy Kate had quite a different future in mind.
“Within a month, my 33-year-old sister-in-law, married to my brother, four kids, and my brother is running the business at that point. She was diagnosed with terminal, aggressive small-cell lung cancer, died seven months later,” Budd told The Epoch Times during a recent interview.
Three new NC-connected congresswomen
Three North Carolina-connected women Democrats broke the mold in the recent Congressional elections.
The “mold” was Democrats losing congressional seats to Republicans. These three women won seats that were previously held by Republican men.
All three are the sorts of smart, experienced, hard-working people who have the potential to be leaders in Congress. All three have come back strong from devastating political losses, regrouped, and used losing experiences to build winning campaigns.
I first saw Deborah Ross in action in the 1990s while I was working in the legislature for the UNC System and she was state director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Her lawyering skills, charm, and toughness made her an effective lobbyist. In 2004 she won a seat in the North Carolina House, where she served until 2013.
Publisher s Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Carolina Journal. The author of this post is Amy Cooke.
There is big money in the dark shadows of the left s activist networks, and its most well-kept secret is infiltrating North Carolina.
Meet Arabella Advisors, a consulting company that controls a $731 million nonprofit nexus from its plush headquarters in Washington, D.C. Through its four in-house nonprofits the vaguely named New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund Arabella has quietly funneled nearly $2.5 billion since its creation in 2005 from major foundations and mega-donors to left-wing activists, voter registration groups, litigation nonprofits, and think tanks.
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