{"id":1979037,"date":"2023-07-20T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T01:04:21","slug":"desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis orders inquiry into Anheuser-Busch assets."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fdesantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets%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=1979037&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--><h2>Florida Governor Ron\u200b DeSantis Takes Action Against \u200dAnheuser-Busch InBev<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron \u2062DeSantis<\/a> has instructed \u2062the State Board of \u2064Administration (SBA) to launch \u2064an \u200binquiry into the global equity\u200b assets held with Anheuser-Busch InBev. This \u200ddecision comes\u200b in the wake \u200cof the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-instructs-state-board-of-administration-to-launch-inquiry-of-anheuser-busch-assets\/\" title=\"DeSantis orders inquiry into Anheuser-Busch assets.\">recent\u2062 controversy involving paid marketing engagement<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-barkley-attacks-americans-boycotting-bud-light-rednecks-and-aholes\/\" title=\"Charles Barkley criticizes Americans boycotting Bud Light, calling them \"rednecks\" and \"a**holes\".\">controversial \u200btransgender influencer<\/a> by one of \u2063its\u200b top brands, \u200cBud Light.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis sent a \u2064letter to SBA Interim Executive Director\u200d Lamar Taylor, emphasizing the significant 30 percent loss in sales that the company \u200cexperienced in June. The SBA, responsible for managing Florida&#8217;s state and local government assets, will now investigate the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs sales \u200dof\u2064 AB InBev products within the U.S. continue to precipitously decline, reports are \u200bnow emerging\u200c that large\u2064 American mainstays \u200dlike Costco will be pulling Bud Light\u200b from the shelves,\u201d \u200dwrote the 44-year-old Republican presidential candidate. \u201cClearly, the Board\u2019s \u200cmismanagement \u2014 as well as\u2064 its failure \u2064to remediate the \u200bproblem \u200dand repair its \u200crelationship with\u200c millions of disaffected American consumers\u200b \u2014 has led\u200c to \u2064this impasse and will continue to financially harm the SBA and other shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stressed \u2063the importance of the SBA\u200b fulfilling its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-read-the-memo-provided-to-vp-pence-noting-that-he-has-the-opportunity-to-save-the-country\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Read the Memo Provided to VP Pence Noting that He Has the Opportunity to Save the Country\">legal obligations<\/a> to &#8220;prudently manage \u2063the funds of Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-sen-ron-johnson-nrsc-partner-for-seven-figure-ad-campaign-focusing-on-spike-in-violent-crime\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Johnson, NRSC Partner For Seven-Figure Ad Campaign Focusing On Spike In Violent Crime\">hardworking law enforcement officers<\/a>, teachers, firefighters, and\u200b first responders&#8221; by focusing on growing\u200b returns rather than supporting an ideological agenda through &#8220;woke virtue \u2063signaling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI therefore \u2062request that \u200dyou immediately initiate\u2062 a review to\u2062 examine how AB InBev\u2019s conduct has \u2062impacted \u200band continues to impact\u2062 the value\u2063 of SBA\u2019s AB\u2062 InBev holdings,\u201d stated the governor. \u200c\u201cIt appears to me\u200c that AB\u2063 InBev may have breached legal duties owed to its shareholders, and\u200b that a shareholder \u200daction may be both appropriate and \u2062necessary. To protect SBA and the retirees of Florida from losses attributable to AB InBev\u2019s \u200ddisregard of those duties, all \u2064options are on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ordered an inquiry by the State Board of Administration into its global equity assets with Anheuser-Busch InBev. This decision comes in response to the backlash faced by the company due to Bud Light&#8217;s association with a controversial transgender influencer through paid marketing. DeSantis conveyed his concerns through a letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1979038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979037","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}