LD24: Inganamort finally admits his role in promoting ESG.
/By Rubashov
The case of Mayor Mike Inganamort is a testament to the tragic vetting process used by the GOP establishment. Instead of trying to create a legislative caucus that is representative of the party’s rank-and-file, the establishment insists on hoarding insider “goodfellas”.
The GOP establishment would keep out all principled conservatives if they could.
The GOP establishment would keep out all principled conservatives if they could. They make a fetish of ignoring grassroots activists – which is why they must depend on labor unions for literature drops (but never for the full ticket because labor never backs a full Republican ticket, just the rare candidate).
Mike Inganamort is personally a nice enough fellow. He’s the scion of a family of developers who once ran the GOP machine in Bergen County. The family’s prominence ebbed after the son of Bergen County GOP Chairman John Inganamort was convicted for his role in bringing “a cocaine-laden boat” to “the dock of his father's Florida home.” The drugs were valued at $50 million – at the time the Bergen Record called it “one of the largest drug seizures in the city's (Boca Raton) history.” Inganamort was succeeded as county chairman by John Schepisi.
Mike Inganamort is politically ambitious. So ambitious, in fact, that he pursued two offices at the same time – running for Mayor of Chester Township while seeking the Assembly nomination. He’s been mayor since January and wants your vote for the Assembly nomination this June. That’s some operator.
The GOP establishment who vetted Mike Inganamort cared so little for the conservatives who make up the vast majority of the party – both in New Jersey and nationally – that they paid no attention to how Mike Inganamort makes his money.
The GOP establishment who vetted Mike Inganamort cared so little for the conservatives who make up the vast majority of the party – both in New Jersey and nationally – that they paid no attention to how Mike Inganamort makes his money.
Assembly candidate Mike Inganamort is a partner in a company whose business is ESG. The company is called ASG Advisors and it advertised itself on its website in this way:
ABOUT…
Impact assessment support for clients driving social change.
Our specialized ESG practice advises companies on Environmental, Social & Governance strategy, reporting and disclosures, and thought leadership.
ASG ADVISORS can support the following areas -----
Health & Healthcare/ Global Development/ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/ Inclusive Prosperity/ Arts & Culture/ Gender & Women/ Education, STEM & Up-Skilling/ Urban Renewal/ Social Entrepreneurship/ Circular Economy/ Religious & Faith-based/ Conservation & Natural Resources/ Youth/ Civics & Public Service/ Democracy & Freedom
Assembly candidate Mike Inganamort was described on his company’s website as:
“Michael Inganamort principally leads communications and public policy-related efforts.”
“Michael Inganamort, ASG Partner, leads the firm’s issue advocacy and thought leadership engagements, drawing on his experience in and out of government in Washington, DC and New Jersey.”
The GOP establishment’s vetting of its candidates is so bad that they recruited an active ESG merchant. A partner in a business described by Governor Ron DeSantis as:
“Spawned by leftist elites, the ESG — Environmental, Social and Governance — agenda is infiltrating board rooms across America. Financial institutions are using ESG to discriminate against everyday citizens for our religious, political, and social beliefs. Law-abiding businesses disfavored by corporate liberals, such as gun manufacturers and sellers, are facing unprecedented discrimination from banks and payment processors. This is a direct threat to our American way of life.”
Donald Trump described ESG this way: “These poorly performing woke financial scams are radical left garbage that would never be funded on their own and certainly never be funded on their own merits. The entire ESG scheme is designed to funnel your retirement money to the maniacs on the radical left.”
When Jersey Conservative pointed out Mike Inganamort’s connection to ESG, the candidate acted rather dishonestly and immediately scrubbed his company’s website of any mention of ESG. Now, the only way you get to scrub the company website of stuff that suddenly becomes embarrassing to you is if you run the company. But that didn’t stop Inganamort’s running mate – County Commissioner Dawn Fantasia – from trying to downplay ESG by claiming he was just a minor member of the firm.
Assemblyman Parker Space tried to explain that Inganamort was just a facilitator of the ESG scam, not a promoter. Morris County GOP Chairman Laura Ali went into Woke mode and called the messenger a “hate blog” (presumably that meant the comments of Governor DeSantis and President Trump as well).
But Sussex County Commissioner Bill Hayden cornered them when he proposed an anti-ESG resolution to the Sussex County Board of Commissioners. It would be political suicide for fellow Commissioner Dawn Fantasia not to vote for Hayden’s resolution – but doing so would place her in direct conflict with her own ticket. So, she had Mike Inganamort address the Board meeting before the vote – in an attempt to “thread the needle” – putting the best spin on what he does for money.
In her remarks, Commissioner Fantasia did not come out in opposition to ESG – only the use of ESG “social credit scoring” for public sector investments. Commissioner Dawn Fantasia actually defended corporations that embrace the Woke ESG agenda. As this Heritage Foundation video makes clear, ESG’s primary threat is from private corporate actors, like banks and financial institutions:
DENIED: Is Your Credit Score Woke Enough? ESG Explained - YouTube
Mike Inganamort’s remarks were narrowly aimed at public investments and public pension funds only. He said that he now opposed the government’s use of ESG as a tool for investing. But this was disingenuous. Inganamort knows quite well that the ideology of ESG does not flow from government, but to government from Woke corporations like BlackRock.
Meanwhile, the impact of the ESG that Inganamort promotes is clearly shown by some of the very clients he brags about on his company website. Corporations that, with Inganamort’s assistance, promote ESG and the Woke ideology and Leftist political action that flow from it. Here is an example from an ESG “diversity, equity, inclusion, & belonging” report from just one of the corporations Inganamort works with (according to his website):
According to the National Center on Transgender Equality, the EQUALITY ACT would codify Murphy's Woke Public School Curriculum Agenda in Federal law.
That’s private businesses – aka Woke corporations – lobbying for federal legislation that would discriminate against religious beliefs and force a dangerous sexual agenda on children. That’s who Mayor Mike Inganamort works with, that is what he promotes and facilitates. His attempt to thread the needle failed.
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell
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