American Airlines’ Performance Has Been Woeful; Board Reform Badly Needed
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of American Airlines Group, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each...
Chair/CEO Brian Roberts Lacks Accountability as Comcast Flails
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Comcast Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other words,...
Reid Hoffman to Finally Leave Microsoft’s Board; It’s Not to Go Into ‘Founder Mode’
Reid Hoffman announced last week he will not stand for re-election to Microsoft's board of directors, with the company disclosing the departure in an 8-K filing on Friday. His stated reason, relayed through a podcast with Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and reported by...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data in...
NLPC: Netflix’s Board is Insular and Ineffective, and Needs Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Netflix, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member across the...
Chair/CEO Brian Roberts Lacks Accountability as Comcast Flails
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Comcast Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other words,...
Reid Hoffman to Finally Leave Microsoft’s Board; It’s Not to Go Into ‘Founder Mode’
Reid Hoffman announced last week he will not stand for re-election to Microsoft's board of directors, with the company disclosing the departure in an 8-K filing on Friday. His stated reason, relayed through a podcast with Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and reported by...
American Airlines’ Performance Has Been Woeful; Board Reform Badly Needed
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of American Airlines Group, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data in...
NLPC: Netflix’s Board is Insular and Ineffective, and Needs Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Netflix, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member across the...
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American Airlines’ Performance Has Been Woeful; Board Reform Badly Needed
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of American Airlines Group, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each...
Chair/CEO Brian Roberts Lacks Accountability as Comcast Flails
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Comcast Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other words,...
Reid Hoffman to Finally Leave Microsoft’s Board; It’s Not to Go Into ‘Founder Mode’
Reid Hoffman announced last week he will not stand for re-election to Microsoft's board of directors, with the company disclosing the departure in an 8-K filing on Friday. His stated reason, relayed through a podcast with Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella and reported by...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data in...
NLPC: Netflix’s Board is Insular and Ineffective, and Needs Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Netflix, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member across the...
At Walmart, Shareholders Who Aren’t Waltons Deserve Board Representation Too
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Request for Cumulative Voting for Board Elections” proposal, at Walmart‘s 2026 annual shareholder meeting. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis. That means that a coalition representing...
NLPC Demands Board Accountability at General Motors After Our Warnings Went Unheeded
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at General Motors Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
Exxon’s CEO Couldn’t Defend the Record, So He Attacked the Critics
NLPC's two previous posts examined how ExxonMobil's annual meeting on Wednesday was conducted — the 17-minute pre-buttal, the individual attacks on a 106-share owner, the editorialized proposal title, the three-year procedural buildup that made the meeting's posture...
Research Backing Corporate DEI Was Fabricated; Why Does It Still Run Boardrooms?
Following the overwhelming vote at the Colgate-Palmolive annual meeting in early May against a shareholder proposal to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria for choosing board of director nominees, NLPC documented how the alleged DEI rollback in corporate...
Dear Darren Woods and Exxon: Your Insecurity is Showing
In a post published on Friday, NLPC asked why ExxonMobil's Chairman and CEO Darren Woods, presiding over a company at multi-decade-high hydrocarbon production levels, devoted significant time at the May 27 annual meeting to attacking a 106-share owner by name. The...
Why Was Exxon CEO Darren Woods So Angry at a Small Shareholder?
Public-company annual meetings are usually procedural affairs. The corporate secretary opens, recites the formal business of the meeting, calls the shareholder proposals, takes the votes, sometimes reports the preliminary results, and adjourns. Chairs sometimes offer...
NLPC: Benioff’s Failed Attempts to Share Power at Salesforce Demand Board Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Adoption of Cumulative Voting” at the annual meeting of Salesforce, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or...
NLPC: Meta is Not to Be Trusted with Users’ Data; Greater AI Disclosure Needed
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Meta Platforms, Inc., parent of Facebook and Instagram, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of...
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Will Billionaire (and Soros Ally) Tom Steyer Control California?
Leftist billionaires are an odd lot. Having accumulated great wealth through capitalism, they donate enormous sums to organizations committed to socialism. George Soros and the lesser-known Neville Singham epitomize this type, though mercifully without seeking public...
More AOC Campaign Cash for Ketamine Doctor
Rep. Alexandria Ocazio-Cortez (D-NY) has spent another $4,550 in campaign funds for a psychiatrist, according to her latest filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the first quarter to 2026. She had previously paid almost $19,000 to the doctor, known for...
Omar ‘insults the intelligence of her constituents or shows how really stupid she is’
Andrew Kerr in the Washington Free Beacon details more fallout from Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) filing of an amendment to her 2024 financial disclosures showing that she’s not worth as much as $30 million, as she originally reported. She blamed the difference on an...
Omar Amends Filings to Show She is Not Wealthy; Her Excuse is ‘Laughable’
In apparent response to NLPC’s February 16 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), she has amended her financial disclosure report to show what we suspected all along, that her husband Tim Mynett is not successful in his businesses, and that the couple is not worth...
The Tactical Purge of Eric Swalwell
The political demise of Eric Swalwell is being framed by the mainstream media as a long-overdue reckoning—a moment where the Democratic Party finally decided that personal scandals and questionable associations are disqualifying. But for those of us who monitor...
Did Swalwell Use Campaign Funds to Facilitate Alleged Rape?
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Disbursements from Eric Swalwell's campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign...
It’s Time for Saudi Arabia to Make Whole Pensacola Terror Victims
From my op-ed in the April 14 Washington Times: President Trump can take a large share of the credit for a deeper, more fundamental shift in Middle East geopolitics than the Iran conflict. It’s the extraordinary transformation of the Saudi-U.S. alliance, which in...
Soros Money Drenches Virginia for Gerrymandering Campaign
Gerrymandering, the practice by which the majority party in a state legislature redraws congressional maps in ways that maximize the party’s representation in Congress, at times with bizarre boundaries, suddenly is a political weapon of choice. California voters last...
Which Supreme Court Justice Invited De Niro to Birthright Hearing?
The following letter to the editor by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar appeared in the Washington Times: As a member of the Supreme Court Bar, I had the privilege last week to sit in the front section, reserved for bar members, during the oral argument challenging President...
Ethics Complaint Filed Against AOC for Using Campaign Funds for Ketamine Doctor
National Legal and Policy Center on March 27 filed a complaint jointly with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Conduct against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). From the Complaint, drafted by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar: NLPC alleges...
AOC Used Campaign Funds for Psychiatric Treatment from Ketamine Doctor
Gabrielle Fahmy reports in the New York Post that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent more than $18,000 from her campaign for mental health treatment, apparently in violation of the law. AOC received therapy from Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at...
Socialist AOC Loves Pricey Pampering in Makeup Artist’s Chair
From the New York Post, by Gabrielle Fahmy: Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who once boasted about doing her own makeup in an Instagram tutorial — shelled out more than $2,000 last fall to a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Bad...
Complaint Filed Against Rep. Ihan Omar for ‘Implausible’ Financial Disclosures
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC), formerly known as the Office of Congressional Ethics, against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) regarding her financial disclosures that show a sudden and inexplicable...
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Why do the biggest beneficiaries of capitalism fund Marxists? Why do the wealthy, who have gotten rich because of the rule of law and orderly markets, support anarchists and activists who would tear it all down?
The answer is simple. They seek to buy off the forces that would question the morality of their wealth. It is a cowardly and shortsighted strategy. To save our country, the rest of us must make sure that they fail!
Senior Fellow Carl F. Horowitz researches and writes about the so-called Open Society Foundations, with assets of $25 billion, funded by George Soros and now managed by his son, Alex Soros.
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#WeToldYouSo: Vote on NLPC’s Colgate Proposal Exposes Corporate America’s DEI Deception
On May 8, Colgate-Palmolive held its annual shareholder meeting, and investors voted on a National Legal and Policy Center proposal to remove race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation from the criteria the company uses to select its directors. Nearly 97% voted...
UPDATED — #WeToldYouSo Times Three: Overboarded Barra Writes Off More Losses for GM
Update Oct. 16, 2025 11:45 a.m. ET: We are reminded of another unfulfilled promise Mary Barra made about GM's electric vehicle future: General Motors is on track to largely miss its goal of surpassing Tesla in EV market share in the US. Back in 2021, CEO Mary...
#WeToldYouSo: Comcast is Flailing Under Brian Roberts’s Control
Last week we pointed out how NBC's "The Tonight Show" embarrassingly needed the guest appearance of Fox News's Greg Gutfeld, a rival/competitor, to inject some ratings life into the graveyard of late night variety programs. The show highlighted the decline of the...
The NLPC Report Podcast: WeToldYouSo
From the National Legal and Policy Center Podcast: The NLPC Report For years, the National Legal and Policy Center has been shouting from the rooftops: Stop dumping shareholder cash into “green” projects that collapse the second government...
