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America's Roundtable with Maurice McTigue - Part I | Israel at War | America's Economic Doldrums—Reform Solutions | New Zealand's Govt Takes Office

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:00:00 -0500

Join America's Roundtable radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with Honorable Maurice McTigue, QSO, former Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament, New Zealand and New Zealand's Ambassador to Canada. McTigue is Executive Advisory Board Member of the International Leaders Summit.

McTigue received the prestigious Queen’s Service Order in recognition of his public service from Queen Elizabeth II. He advised the Office of Management and Budget and most federal agencies on issues of accountability and transparency and has consulted with legislators and governors in more than 30 states. McTigue is a former Vice President at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Honorable Maurice McTigue has testified on Capitol Hill and published articles in many major media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, US News & World Report, and the Chicago Tribune.

Our discussion on America's Roundtable focuses on:

Israel's War Against Iran-Backed Hamas | Israel's Sovereignty and the Gaza Threat
Iran Proxies Attack U.S. Bases in Iraq and Syria, a U.S. Navy Destroyer and Commercial Ships in the Red Sea ⏤ The World's Busiest and Most Important in Global Trade
New Zealand's Election | A New Center-Right Government Takes Office
The State of the U.S. Economy, The Budget, and Solutions to Addressing the $33 Trillion National Debt
Reforms for America | Deregulation, Tax Reduction, and Market Competition

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A Conversation with Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee | Countering Anti-Israel BDS Movement | Morningstar Placed on Notice — Stating it Violated Arizona's Anti-BDS Law | America's Energy Independence

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Join America's Roundtable Radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy in a recent conversation with Arizona's State Treasurer Kimberly Yee focusing on her leadership role in countering the dangerous anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment) movement. The conversation highlights the rise of anti-Semitism and how principled leaders across America are calling for principled actions against the BDS movement—a hateful campaign designed to delegitimize Israel and Jewish communities in America and around the world.

Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee put investment firm Morningstar on notice and stated that it violated the state’s anti-BDS law.

The Jewish Insider | Morningstar ESG rating system violates Arizona anti-BDS law, treasurer says

“As Treasurer, it is my duty to ensure that Arizona does not do business with companies that are attempting to undermine Israel’s economy and violate Arizona’s anti-BDS law,” said Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee. “Morningstar’s ESG rating subsidiary, Sustainalytics, appears to violate Arizona law by negatively impacting ratings of companies doing business in Israel. I continue to strongly oppose the use of woke ESG ratings in order to keep politics out of Arizonan’s livelihoods and retirement accounts.”

In Treasurer Yee’s letter to Kunal Kapoor, CEO of Morningstar Inc., she informed Kapoor that the company had 30 days within receipt of her letter sent on August 18, 2022, to provide written certification explaining how Morningstar’s usage of ESG ratings does not violate Arizona’s anti-BDS law. Further, Treasurer Yee required that Morningstar must provide a written averment that they will not engage in any future boycott activities against Israel.

“As Arizona’s Chief Banking and Investment Officer, I stand with Israel, and I will not allow taxpayer dollars to become victim to the woke political gamesmanship of ESG ratings. ESG ratings are a political scorecard, not a financial scorecard,” said Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee. “I will not allow companies to promote policies that are antisemitic and discriminatory efforts against Israel, which is America's longtime friend and ally, and a significant trade partner with Arizona.”

Treasurer Kimberly and Arizona's state government have stood in support of Israel's sovereignty and thwarted efforts of American companies working to boycott Israel.

Last year in September 2021, Treasurer Yee withdrew $143 million of Arizona's public funds from Unilever, the parent company of Ben and Jerry's over the ice cream firm’s decision to cease sales in Judea and Samaria also known as the West Bank, and east Jerusalem.

A published report stated — "Arizona will not do business with companies that are attempting to undermine Israel’s economy and blatantly disregarding Arizona’s law," said Treasurer Kimberly Yee.

Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee | Update on Divestment of $143 Million from Unilever - Ben and Jerry's Boycot of Israel | Restoring America's Energy Independence | National Security Crisis at the US Southern Border

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0400

Join America's Roundtable Radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy in a conversation with Kimberly Yee, State Treasurer of Arizona and former Arizona Senate Majority Leader. Arizona and the Arizona Treasurer’s Office was the first state to divest state funds from Ben & Jerry’s due to their Israeli settlement boycott in Judea and Samaria last September. On September 7, 2021, Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee's divested $143 million of public funds from Unilever PLC, Ben and Jerry's parent company.

Treasurer Kimberly Yee provides the latest update on Ben & Jerry’s and the actions taken by its parent company Unilever.

"As Arizona Treasurer, I've divested all state funds from Ben & Jerry's for boycotting Israel," Yee tweeted. "Israel is and will continue to be a major trade partner of AZ. #IStandWithIsrael and I will not allow taxpayer dollars to go towards anti-Semitic, discriminatory efforts against Israel."

The discussion with Arizona State Treasurer Kimberly Yee also focuses on America's inflation surge and the solutions presented to address the nation's energy crisis and the national security at the southern border. Arizona spans more than 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is on pace to make more than 2 million arrests along the Mexico border during the 2022 fiscal year.

On the energy front, Kimberly Yee has been a leading voice to hold to account the U.S. banking industry and the world’s largest asset managers when it comes to efforts to boycott energy companies. In November 2021, Treasurer Yee joined a coalition of 15 Republican Treasurers, Auditors, and Comptrollers of states representing over $600 billion in public assets with a warning that it could potentially reduce future business with banks that cut off financing for oil, gas, and coal.

The letter reads:

"We have a compelling government interest, when acting as participants in the financial services market on behalf of our respective states, to select financial institutions that are not engaged in tactics to harm the very people whose money they are handling. Further, we have the responsibility, as fiduciaries and stewards of more than $600 billion, to ensure that our financial service providers are free from harmful conflicts of interest that could jeopardize state funds. Any financial institution that has adopted policies aimed at diminishing a large portion of our states’ revenue has a major conflict of interest against holding, maintaining, or managing those funds."

11-23-2021 Arizona Treasurer Kimberly Yee Takes Action to Combat Biden Administration Efforts to De-Bank Reliable Energy Firms

11-22-2021 Letter from U.S. State Treasurers to the United States Banks to end boycott of reliable energy companies

Bio | Kimberly Yee

Kimberly Yee is the State Treasurer of Arizona. She is Arizona's chief banking and investment officer and oversees the cash management of Arizona's $53 billion state budget and payments to agencies, local governments and schools. Upon taking office in January 2019, assets under management were at $15.4 billion. Today, assets under management stand at over $29.9 billion, an increase of 94 percent in 41 months.

The Arizona Permanent Land Endowment Trust Fund has also hit historic record highs increasing by $1.9 billion in value under Treasurer Yee's administration as of May 31, ,2022. Voluntary deposits into the Local Government Investment Pool have also increased by 74 percent under Treasurer Yee's leadership, reaching a record high balance of $5.87 billion in total assets as of May 31, 2022.

Treasurer Yee led the effort to pass a state law requiring students to have financial education in high school before graduation, and was the first State Treasurer to have visited all 15 counties in Arizona during the first year of her administration.

Treasurer Yee is the Administrator of the AZ529 Education Savings Plan. Since the Fall of 2020, Kimberly has grown assets to nearly $1.8 billion with more than 20,000 new accounts opened to help families save for higher education and workforce development.

Born and raised in Arizona, Treasurer Kimberly Yee is the first Asian American elected to a statewide office in Arizona’s history. She is also the first Chinese American Republican woman to win a major statewide office in the history of the United States. In 2010, she became the first Asian American woman elected to the Arizona Legislature and served for eight years, both in the House and the Senate.

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Governor Phil Bryant | The Impact of Rising Inflation and the National Debt | National Security Crisis at the U.S. Southern Border | Weakness on the US Foreign Policy Front — Afghanistan, Iran, Russia-Ukraine Crisis and China

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 18:45:00 -0500

Governor Phil Bryant (2012-2020) joins America's Roundtable Radio co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy for a conversation to address the growing concerns of skyrocketing inflation and how it is impacting families and small businesses across the country. The discussion will also highlight history's economic lessons of recession and the urgency to curtail government spending and reduce the national debt. The national security crisis at the U.S. southern border with 2 million illegal immigrants crossing over into America during fiscal year 2021, and serious challenges for state goverments across the country.

On the foreign policy front, the Russia-Ukraine crisis is brought to the forefront. The program highlights the importance of advancing principled solutions for America and advancing peace through strength.

Governor Bryant served two terms as Mississippi’s 64th governor from 2012 to January 2020 and served as Mississippi’s lieutenant governor, as state auditor, and as a legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Phil Bryant is a founding member of Bryant Songy Snell Global Partners where he provides strategic advice and counsel and business development services to some of the world’s largest industry leaders. He is a distinguished guest-host of America's Roundtable and serves on the International Leaders Summit's leadership board.

While serving as Mississippi’s chief executive officer, Governor Bryant largely centered his efforts on creating new economic opportunities, among other things. Under Governor Bryant’s leadership Mississippi saw its lowest-ever unemployment rate, its lowest-ever high school dropout rate, its lowest-ever teen pregnancy rate, its highest-ever number of jobs, its highest-ever number of graduating physicians, its highest-ever K-12 reading and math improvement scores, and its highest-ever high school graduation rate.

Governor Bryant’s dedicated focus on economic development yielded more than $8 billion in private sector investment in Mississippi as well as the largest economic project in state history—a landmark agreement with Continental Tire to build a major manufacturing facility in central Mississippi and create more than 2,500 new jobs.

Governor Bryant dovetailed public education reforms with a strong focus on workforce training programs and job creation. His administration worked to improve career-technical training programs and their delivery through Mississippi’s top-rated community and junior college system, pairing program offerings with local workforce opportunities and collaborating with the K-12 system to strengthen high school vocational programs.

He worked closely with the University of Mississippi Medical Center to build a new School of Medicine and to increase the number of graduating physicians each year; to position Mississippi as a national leader in telemedicine services and technology; and to create a state-of-the-art residential facility to care for medically fragile children.

Governor Bryant served as chairman of the Education Commission of the States; chairman of the Southern States Energy Board; chairman of Jobs for America’s Graduates; and chairman of the Royal Commonwealth Society of the United States.

Congressman Mike Bost | Commemorating Veterans Day 2021 | Biden Administration's Chaotic Withdrawal from Afghanistan | Advancing Reforms at VA | US Economy and Inflation

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 08:45:00 -0500

Join America's Roundtable co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with special guest U.S. Congressman Mike Bost (R-IL), Ranking Member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and Member of Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for a timely commemoration of Veterans Day 2021 and the 100th anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. Congressman Bost shares about principled efforts to bring greater accountability and transparency on the Veterans Administration (VA) as veterans await healthcare cost reimbursements.

Congressman Bost also address the Biden Administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and the on-going efforts to rescue Americans and Afghan nationals who risked their lives to help the United States military. On economic front, we discuss the serious concerns of the highest inflation in three decades, the skyrocketing price of food, energy and gas, and discussing the importance of advancing pro-growth solutions.

Congressman Bost's commentary addresses the urgency to help veterans who were exposed to dangerous chemicals from open-air burns pits:

Burn Pits Cannot be the Next Agent Orange | The Ripon Forum
"I refuse to let burn pits be the next Agent Orange." — Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs

The Washington Times: Wholesale prices hit record highs as inflation soars

“Wholesale prices at the end of October surged by 8.6% since October 2020, the highest year-over-year increase recorded by the federal government since it began tracking the data in 2010, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.The report is bad news for consumers struggling with sticker shock as prices climb. It suggests that a high inflation rate is here to stay for a while despite the Biden administration’s insistence that it is temporary.”

Bio: U.S. Congressman Mike Bost

Rep. Mike Bost is proud to represent the 12 counties of Illinois’ 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sworn into office on January 6, 2015, Mike is continuing the fight for our Southern Illinois’ values in Washington – a fight he began in U.S. military, then as a first responder, a local job creator, and a state representative.

In the 117th Congress, Rep. Bost serves on two key committees: Veterans’ Affairs, and Transportation & Infrastructure. On the Veterans' Affairs Committee he serves as the Ranking Member, the top Republican on the Committee.

Prior to his election to Congress, Rep. Bost served for two decades in the Illinois House of Representatives, rising to the leadership position of House Republican Caucus Chair.

Rep. Bost also served as a firefighter for the Murphysboro Fire Department. He graduated from the University of Illinois' Certified Firefighter II Academy in 1993 and continued to serve the Murphysboro Fire Department during his six terms as state representative. Prior to that, Rep. Bost worked for 13 years at Bost Trucking Service, first as a driver and then for 10 years as a truck manager.

Rep. Bost is a lifelong resident of Murphysboro. He graduated from Murphysboro High School in 1979.

After high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps serving his country from 1979 to 1982. He was trained as an electronic specialist and radar repairman and received an honorable discharge as a Corporal E-4.

In addition to his duties as a Member of Congress, Rep. Bost is very active in his church and community. Rep. Bost and his wife, Tracy, own and operate a small business – the White House Salon – in Murphysboro.

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Kimberly Yee, State Treasurer of Arizona | Divesting $143 Million from Ben & Jerry’s for Boycotting Israel | Investing in Israel Bonds | US Inflation, Taxation and Economic Growth

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 08:00:00 -0400

The Honorable Kimberly Yee, State Treasurer of Arizona joins co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy for a timely conversation on her leadership and the decisive actions taken in affirming Israel's sovereignty, supporting the Jewish State's economic future, and the efforts to invest in Israeli bonds. The discussion will also focus on concerns about rising inflation impacting families across America and the federal government's efforts to monitor personal bank accounts which will require new reporting procedures, threaten taxpayer privacy and further burden community financial institutions. The discussion will focus on advancing principled solutions.

Kimberly Yee, Arizona State Treasurer

— Divestment of $143 million from Ben & Jerry’s for boycotting Israel.

— Arizona invests in Israeli Bonds.

— Rising inflation hurting families, with the greatest toll on America's poorest communities including the working poor and single family households.

—23 State Treasurers and auditors and financial officers oppose a Biden administration proposal that empowers the IRS to monitor American bank accounts. In light of the pushback from citizens, joined by government officials and legislators, the original proposal of surveillance personal bank accounts of more than $600 of deposited funds, the Biden administration has raised the amount to $10,000.

— Discussing the impact of pro-growth solutions in Arizona, and how the rest of America can fuel greater rates of economic growth through principled economic reforms, supporting free enterprise and unleashing economic liberty.

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Hon. Maurice McTigue | Erosion of the Rule of Law in America | Threats to Freedom of Speech | Advancing Reforms and Competition — Impacting America's States

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:00:00 -0500

Join America's Roundtable co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy for a conversation with Honorable Maurice McTigue, QSO, on the erosion of the rule of law in America, threats to freedom of speech, weakened democratic institutions and solutions in advancing principled policy reforms. The conversation brings to the forefront America's economy, the importance of competition among America's states, and rollout of the Biden administration's economic policies. Election integrity and the sanctity of the ballot is brought under the spotlight in light of widespread voter distrust of America's electoral process.

The Honorable Maurice McTigue is Vice President for Outreach at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Mr. McTigue serves on the executive advisory board of the International Leaders Summit and delivered keynote addresses at The Jerusalem Leaders Summit in Israel, the International Leaders Summit’s events in Brussels, Eastern Europe and Washington, DC. Mr. McTigue has testified on Capitol Hill and published articles in many major media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, US News & World Report, and The Chicago Tribune. In Washington, DC, McTigue advised the White House Office of Management and Budget and most federal agencies on issues of accountability and transparency and has consulted with legislators and governors in more than 30 states.

A former cabinet minister and member of parliament in his native New Zealand, McTigue was one of the architects of the “New Zealand miracle,” which dramatically reformed the country’s government and economy by implementing market-driven, progrowth policies. He later became New Zealand’s ambassador to Canada and received the prestigious Queen’s Service Order in recognition of his public service from Queen Elizabeth II.

For further details about Maurice McTigue and his leadership in advancing principled reforms in his home country of New Zealand, the United States of America and Europe — please review these articles and videos:

Rolling Back Government: Lessons from New Zealand

Video: Maurice McTigue | The Rule of Law, Jerusalem Leaders Summit 2015

Video: Maurice McTigue: Advancing Reforms in Eastern Europe | HRT Prime Time News — Croatia Radio and Television | International Leaders Summit

TESTIMONY - U.S. Senate Budget Committee | Hon. Maurice McTigue, QSO

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U.S. Congressman Mike Bost | Veterans Affairs Reform — Healthcare | Economy & Jobs | China Threats | Biden's Executive Orders

Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:00:00 -0500

Join America's Roundtable co-hosts Natasha Srdoc and Joel Anand Samy with U.S. Congresman Mike Bost (R-IL). U.S. Congressman Mike Bost is a lead Republican on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and a member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Our conversation focuses on the U.S. economy, jobs and taxation, advancing reforms via the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system which provides services for 9 million American veterans and the growing concerns about China.

For further details about Congressman Mike Bost and his leadership in advancing principled reforms, visit:
https://bost.house.gov/
http://bostforcongress.com/

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