CONFIRMED: First-of-its-kind call between more than 100 top corporate leaders on Saturday focused on how to respond to proposed changes in state voting laws. Participants included top leaders of airlines, media, law, investment.
Those invited include leaders of @AmericanAir, @United, @AtlantaFalcons, @LeviStraussCo, @Walmart, @ViacomCBS, @ArielInvests, @LinkedIn, @Twitter, @AMCTheatres, among others, people familiar with the meeting tell @cbsnews.
"The gathering was an enthusiastic voluntary statement of defiance against threats of reprisals for exercising their patriotic voices,” said @JeffSonnenfeld, a @YaleSOM management professor who helped organize the confab.
@JeffSonnenfeld @YaleSOM ALSO NOTABLE: “There was humor and mockery" about @LeaderMcConnell'S calls for business leaders to "stay out of politics," a comment he later walked back.
But participants said, "It wasn’t a primary area of discussion" and that meeting was in the works before McConnell's words.
All info above confirms reporting that came first (by my skim of things) from @tcfrankel: washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
MORE INFO: cbsnews.com/news/corporate…
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