CEO Roz Brewer's Walgreens Donated in 2022 to Red State AG's No Abortion Pills Letter Group AOC She

Like this Twitter follower, I was also watching Ali Velshi on MSNBC Saturday, when he reported that Walgreens had donated money to the very Red State AGs group that sent Walgreens the onimous “don’t do it” letter about selling abortion pills in their stores.

Unlike Fox News, Ali Velshi is very particular about the words coming out of his mouth. While we don’t know the amount of money donated — and whether a similar amount was donated to a Blue State AGs group — I do not challenge the veracity of Velshi’s claim. He would not make it without the receipts.

This new revelation didn’t make me feel any better about Walgreens CEO Roz Brewer, a businesswoman we celebrated on her appointment to the Walgreens Boots Alliance corner office as the first Black woman CEO.

I don’t understand her strategy of not being silent and standing with her other business colleagues until this issue sorts itself out. She has done unneceessary harm to herself, as women now don’t believe we can trust her.

Brewer is like the “good little woman” in the boys club telling her what to do. When the topic is abortion rights, we’re not interested in supporting “good little women” who cultivate their relationship with red state insurrectionists — stepping out when other corporations are remaining silent with a wait and see attitude.

It’s definitely time to wonder if Brewer writes word salads for a living or she has convinced herself that like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. she is “committing to what is right.” Note that the King quote visual comes from Brewer’s LinkedIn page.

Update 3/12/23. AOC is delving into Walgreens politics, which have been in the public spotlight for several years now.

Wisconsin legislators have been front and center for decades now. The April election for a state Supreme Court justice will have huge impact on whether Wisconsin turns totally autocratic. I have personally contributed to the campaign of Janet Protasiewicz. PBS Wisconsin explains the upcoming election.

Many Republican leaders in Wisconsin do not support Joe Biden as the democratically-elected president of America. Please understand that Walgreens is not alone in their major support of the Wisconsin Republican Party.

This 2018 op-ed also cites Microsoft, Dr Pepper Snapple, J.P. Morgan Chase and Humana as being supporters. Read The Corporate Donors Behind a Repubican Power Grab.

I know Wisconsin well, having lived there as a teenager on the lake in Chippewa Falls. Next door was the home of Wisconsin Senator Alexander Wiley, the right-hand of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy.

McCarthy rocketed to public attention in 1950 with his allegations that hundreds of Communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies. My first landlord in New York City — a Jewish playwright — was imprisoned by the McCarthy Commission.

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