SEC Proxy-Firm Rules Spur YouTube Call to Stop ‘Liberal Agenda’

Jan. 17, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

The YouTube video encourages “real Americans” to urge Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton to clamp down on proxy advisory firms that, they say, are imposing a liberal agenda on corporate America.

“We’re seeing abortion, climate change, sanctuary cities, gun control,” Holly Turner, a frequent guest on Fox News, says on the video, sitting next to her conservative-activist husband, Chris Turner. “These are all issues now that these companies are being forced to deal with.”

The SEC has received more than three dozen comment letters backing a proposal targeting proxy firms since the Turners posted the seven-minute advocacy tutorial ...

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