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TexasTowelie

(111,314 posts)
Thu Mar 15, 2018, 10:19 AM Mar 2018

Rex Tillerson was a paranoid prick

The LGBT community was at odds with Rex Tillerson during his entire term as CEO of ExxonMobil. Throughout his reign, he steadfastly refused to extend partner benefits such as health insurance to same-sex spouses of his employees. At one meeting with members of the community, he admitted it had nothing to do with money. No one was going to tell him what to do.

Each year, the New York pension fund, the largest owner of ExxonMobil stock, along with other large owners including California’s pension fund, issued a shareholder initiative to extend partner benefits. Each year ExxonMobil campaigned against it. One year the company had to be sued to force the issue onto its proxy ballot. Each year it failed.

The shareholder meeting is held each year at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. One year, I met with a representative of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman who was attending to vote New York’s shares in favor of same-sex partner benefits.

To enter the building, I walked through a maze of metal barriers and showed my press credentials. I was met by a police officer and escorted from there to the metal detector. From there, I was escorted by a different police officer downstairs to the media room. Press was guarded by several officers. When I got up to get a cup of coffee, immediately outside the media room, an officer accompanied me. When I got up to go to the men’s room, right next door to the media room, an officer followed me in.

Read more: https://www.dallasvoice.com/rex-tillerson-paranoid-prick-10250348.html

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Rex Tillerson was a paranoid prick (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
Furthermore, a member of the organized paranoid prick community. Odoreida Mar 2018 #1
 

Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
1. Furthermore, a member of the organized paranoid prick community.
Fri Mar 16, 2018, 09:42 PM
Mar 2018

Of course they discreetly call it something else.

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