{"id":1531450,"date":"2022-06-28T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531450"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:34:23","slug":"democratic-governors-try-to-lure-back-companies-with-promises-of-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-governors-try-to-lure-back-companies-with-promises-of-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Governors Try To Lure Back Companies With Promises Of Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-governors-try-to-lure-back-companies-with-promises-of-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1531450&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic governors can\u2019t exactly offer companies a competitive economic environment, but they can promise Big Business that their employees will have access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/abortion\">abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, progressive governors like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a> in California and Phil Murphy in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-jersey\">New Jersey<\/a> think that kind of sales pitch will help lure back companies that have since left their states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got your back, but come back,\u201d Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/27\/democrats-recruit-businesses-from-red-states-restricting-abortion-00042716\">said<\/a> at a news conference Friday while touting California\u2019s liberal abortion laws on Friday. \u201cSome of you may have left the state, come on back. Some businesses may have left, come on back. It\u2019s a point of pride that we welcome you back; we want to celebrate that we have you back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murphy made a more direct appeal recently, sending personal letters to firms across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after it was leaked that the Supreme Court of the United States was poised to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/new-jersey-aims-to-lure-georgia-firms-by-warning-of-dangerous-anti-abortion-policies\/QDYBJ5ZVGZALPF5MX4NOVTT2SQ\/\">reported<\/a> that Murphy sent seven companies in The Peach Tree State a letter, warning that the repeal of <em>Roe\u00a0<\/em>would make it more difficult for them to attract \u201ctop female talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe overturning of a woman\u2019s right to bodily autonomy \u2014 and the chilling effect this decision will have on your ability to attract and retain top female talent by being located in a state which has refused to recognize women\u2019s reproductive freedom \u2014 cannot be ignored,\u201d one letter said, according to AJC.<\/p>\n<p>The paper noted that Murphy\u2019s office also sent a version of that letter \u201cto more than 50 companies in states with anti-abortion laws, including Florida, Missouri, Ohio and Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEconomic strength is about more than just value \u2014 it is about values,\u201d Alyana Alfaro Post, press secretary for Murphy, said in a statement provided to AJC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Murphy encourages businesses looking to stand with their employees to look to New Jersey, a state where they can be confident that the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and voters will always be protected,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democratic governors like Connecticut\u2019s Ned Lamont have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox61.com\/article\/news\/local\/lamont-business-owners-anti-abortion-states-move-connecticut-texas\/520-66ceba95-b106-4a1a-b859-a10048ed951c\">attempted<\/a> to convince businesses in red states to move to the solidly-blue Nutmeg State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have oil and natural gas, but we have one of the most productive, best trained, most innovative workforces in the world. And that starts with the fact that we have more women participating in our workforce than just about anywhere else,\u201d Lamont said in a video pitch that was posted to Twitter last September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a family-friendly state that respects women. I know some of you are in states like Texas which are outlawing a woman\u2019s right to choose. We have codified, we are protecting a woman\u2019s right to choose because that\u2019s about respect,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, any of you business owners thinking about making a move \u2014 give me a call. I\u2019d love to hear from you,\u201d Lamont concluded.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A message to all businesses in states that are restricting the rights of women and aren\u2019t putting families first with their policies. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xSF8hUA3vA\">pic.twitter.com\/xSF8hUA3vA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovNedLamont\/status\/1436397644436410368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to these sorts of tactics, economic expert and founder of Beacon Economics Christopher Thornberg, called the ideas \u201cnonsensical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBusinesses don\u2019t locate somewhere because of abortion access or not,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/27\/democrats-recruit-businesses-from-red-states-restricting-abortion-00042716\">told<\/a> Politico. \u201cWhere you locate is a function of 100 things, and that is such a trivial part of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic governors can\u2019t exactly offer companies a competitive economic environment, but they can promise Big Business that their employees will have access to abortion. For some reason, progressive governors like Gavin Newsom in California and Phil Murphy in New Jersey think that kind of sales pitch will help lure back companies that have since left &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1531510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}