Climate Politics
Republicans Are Focusing on a New Economic Threat: ESG Scores
- Part of growing anti-grading movement in Republican Party
- GOP could push to limit it if it wins back control of Congress
Blake Masters speak during an Election Night Party in Chandler, Arizona, on Aug. 2.
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To Blake Masters, the newly minted Republican Senate nominee in Arizona, ESG scores are an existential threat to the US economy along with inflation -- an issue worth campaigning on as ardently as securing the border, preventing voter fraud and challenging Big Tech.
“They represent a further merger of government and corporation,” Masters said, comparing ESG scores to the tactics of the Chinese Communist Party in a statement to Bloomberg Government on Wednesday. “These scores have absolutely no place in our country.”