This is pretty good. Via Bernie Press–his anti-endorsement list, people who explicitly have spoken against his campaign or by extension people like “…corporate CEOs and billionaires have united against our movement”
“The list of anti-endorsements include:
- Haim Saban, billionaire
- Saban is a billionaire that has spent millions of dollars buying elections for his candidates. He called on the United States to bomb Iran in 2014, criticized President Obama’s attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, and attacked senators for urging humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
- Kenneth Lagone, co-founder of Home Depot
- Langone has a net worth of $3.7 billion, but Home Depot pays wages to slow that many of its workers rely on food stamps, Medicaid and public housing. Today, cashiers at Home Depot make as little as $9 an hour – the very definition of a starvation wage.
- Andy Puzder, former fast food CEO
- As the CEO of a fast food company that owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., Puzder made more money in a day than his minimum-wage fast food workers earned in a year. He opposes increasing the minimum wage above $9 an hour, expanded overtime laws, workplace safety rules and supports providing huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.
- Lowell McAdam, former CEO of Verizon
- As the CEO of Verizon, McAdam made almost $20 million a year in compensation, while fighting to take away health care benefits from his employees and outsourcing thousands of jobs to low-wage countries. From 2008 to 2013, while Verizon made over $42.4 billion in U.S. profits, it received a tax refund of $732 million from the IRS.
- Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase
- Dimon is the billionaire CEO of a bank that was fined $13 billion for mortgage fraud, illegally foreclosed on military families, bribed foreign officials, and received a $416 billion taxpayer bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.
- Bob Iger, CEO of Disney
- Disney rewarded Iger with a four-year compensation package worth an estimated $423 million. He now makes over 1,400 times as much as the average worker at Disney. Under his leadership, Disney has employed thousands of people in China who work in sweatshops at extremely low wages and has fired high-tech U.S. workers and replaced them with low-wage, temporary guest workers from abroad.
- Jeffrey Immelt, former CEO of General Electric
- Immelt walked away from General Electric in 2017 with a retirement package worth an estimated $200 million. Under his leadership, GE outsourced thousands of jobs overseas, shut down more than 50 American factories, was accused of accounting fraud and received billions of dollars in corporate welfare from the US government while proudly avoiding U.S. taxes.
- Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs
- Blankfein, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, became a billionaire after his investment bank received an $824 billion taxpayer bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, paid over $5.5 billion in fines for mortgage fraud, avoided paying any federal income taxes in 2008, and lectured Congress to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
- Alan Greenspan, Former Federal Reserve Chairman
- As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan advocated for and put in place unprecedented policies to deregulate Wall Street – policies that precipitated the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of the world. He supports abolishing the minimum wage, radically cutting Social Security and pushed for NAFTA, Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and other unfettered free trade agreements that have led to the loss of millions of decent paying jobs.
- Third Way, centrist “Think Tank”
- Third Way is a corporate think tank that uses Wall Street and Pharmaceutical money to oppose Medicare for All, reducing drug prices, increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, expanding social security, making public colleges and universities tuition free and cancelling student debt. It was a strong proponent of the Wall Street bailout and cutting Social Security.
- Leon Cooperman, Former Partner at Goldman Sachs
- Cooperman is a billionaire former Goldman Sachs partner and hedge fund manager who has advised President Donald Trump and recently agreed to settle SEC charges for insider trading misconduct.
- Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot
- Marcus is one of the largest donors to Donald Trump. He has defended the racist agenda of Trump adviser Steve Bannon and funded neoconservative groups that have championed wars in the Middle East.
- Stanley Druckenmiller, billionaire hedge fund manager
- Druckenmiller is a billionaire and strong advocate for massive cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and opposes raising the minimum wage.
