Thanks to our prodding, the fake dark money front group Main Street Investors Coalition is now admitting that it has no connection to Main Street or investors and is in fact funded by corporations. Yet, in an essay by Advisory Board Chair Bernard Sharfman in P&I (accompanied by a disclaimer disavowing any editorial approval), MSIC…
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Main Street Investors Coalition’s Latest Lie
They have no connection to Main Street or investors, and the only coalition they represent is the group of corporations and CEOs who fund them. They adopt a fake folksy name and use “we” about investors and put endearing stock photos of ordinary people and slick graphics in their tweets. They cite their affiliate organizations…
In Which We Hear (Indirectly) from Main Street Investors Coalition and Get a Surprising Claim About Their Views on Climate Change
When our post on the SEC Proxy Roundtable was reprinted on the Conference Board’s corporate governance blog, it elicited a response from Main Street Investors Coalition advisory board member Bernard Sharfman, who challenged our assertion that the corporate-funded fake front group led by a former energy industry lobbyist is a climate change denier. We have…
Main Street Investors and Its Affiliate Keep Trying, Keep #Failing
Two recent articles from the Main Street Investors Coalition and its affiliate, The American Council for Capital Formation, and our responses: The affiliate of the corporate-funded, lobbyist-led, climate change-denying, fake front group for corporate CEOs, the Main Street Investors Coalition, is run by the same director, funded by the same corporations, and has a similarly…
Main Street Investors Coalition Tries Desperately to Spin the New York Times Takedown as Support and Fails
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s New York Times Dealbook completely shreds the corporate-funded, lobbyist-led, climate change-denying “Main Street Investors Coalition” as a fake astroturf (artificial grassroots) group misrepresenting itself and its agenda. It’s rather hypocritical of them to call Sorkin’s piece “a hit job,” considering that it is merely a statement of facts about a group that…
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