`Anti-Woke’ DeSantis Mixes Politics, Money in Florida Pensions

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took to a stage in July to discuss his plan to ban the state’s pension system from including Environmental, Social and Governance factors in its investment decisions, he framed it as a way to keep politics out of the process.

What DeSantis didn’t mention is that the $200 billion Florida Retirement System is already being used in a very small way to serve ideological and social objectives. They just happen to jibe with the interests of the governor and his two fellow Republican trustees.

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