{"id":12395,"date":"2024-08-29T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12395"},"modified":"2024-08-29T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T02:01:53","slug":"conservative-activists-push-leads-to-policy-changes-at-lowes-ford-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12395","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Activist\u2019s Push Leads to Policy Changes at Lowe\u2019s, Ford & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/conservative-activists-push-leads-to-policy-changes-at-lowes-ford-and-more\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Robby<\/p>\n

Tennessee conservative activist Robby Starbuck has continued to impact corporate policies on diversity, equity and inclusion and donations to pride events, most recently at companies such as Lowe\u2019s, Jack Daniel\u2019s, Indian Motorcycle and Polaris.<\/p>\n

Starbuck previously made public policies at Harley-Davidson<\/a>, John Deere<\/a> and Tractor Supply<\/a> that led to corporate statements on how the companies would shift policies to limit or eliminate DEI priorities.<\/p>\n

This week, Lowe\u2019s made a statement that it would stop participation in the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index along with stopping donations to pride events and ending its employee resource groups, which separate employees with specific characteristics such as sexual orientation or gender to provide corporate resources.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Starbuck said that Ford<\/a> did the same, ending involvement in HRC’s index, pride donations and vowing that ERC groups will be focused on business. Ford also said<\/a> that it does not have supplier or dealership quotas.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re now forcing multi-billion dollar organizations to change their policies without even posting just from fear they have of being the next company that we expose,\u201d Starbuck wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe are winning and one by one we WILL bring sanity back to corporate America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starbuck said that he was tipped off that Lowe\u2019s was a company to look into after a pair of employees from Lowe\u2019s DEI team visited his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

The Lowe\u2019s changes were announced a week after Starbuck messaged its corporate leadership regarding the company\u2019s corporate policies.<\/p>\n

Starbuck was a 2022 Republican write-in candidate<\/a> in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District after being removed from the ballot by the Tennessee Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Jack Daniel\u2019s parent company Brown-Forman recently announced<\/a> changes in its company, just as Starbuck said he was about to write about the company\u2019s policies but after he had gone through many employee LinkedIn pages, meaning they received notification he was looking at their pages.<\/p>\n

Jack Daniel\u2019s also left the HRC Corporate Equality Index along with announcing that executive and employee bonuses and goals would be tied to business performance and not DEI and it would end specific training that Starbuck described as \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/conservative-activists-push-leads-to-policy-changes-at-lowes-ford-and-more\/ Tennessee conservative activist Robby Starbuck has continued to impact…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12398,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12395\/revisions\/12398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}