Ted Cruz Warns CEOs To Stay Out Of Divisive Politics

By Tom Knighton

As Cam noted earlier this week, a number of CEOs have decided to throw their collective hat into the political arena, not as potential candidates but as advocates pushing gun control. It’s an odd strategy to take, to be honest.

While corporate honchos have long intersected with politics, it’s usually been in regard to things that directly impact the companies they run. Auto safety would call for the CEOs of the Big Three to head to offer their thoughts. Banking regulations would spark comments from Financial CEOs. Things like that make sense in the grand scheme of things.

Make a stand on gun control, not so much.

Sen. Ted Cruz, however, had some thoughts on this development.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday warned that corporate CEOs are making a mistake by wading in the charged political debate over gun control in Washington.

“I don’t think it’s a positive thing to see big corporations shifting their focus from their customers and actually doing what they were created to do into trying to become political players on divisive social issues,” Cruz said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

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Source:: Bearing Arms