The CEO of outdoor clothing giant Patagonia is burnishing her anti-Republican bona fides again, this time saying she intends to pledge her entire company to the “resistance” of President Donald Trump.
Patagonia CEO Rose Marcario recently attacked President Trump for his statements about rolling back President Obama’s unusually aggressive campaign of confiscating millions of acres of state lands and claiming them as “national monuments.”"We have to fight like hell to keep every inch of public land,”
Marcario said in a May article at Huffpost. “I don’t have a lot of faith in politics and politicians right now.” In an effort to prevent citizens from retaking possession of their
state lands, one of her immediate actions will be to sue the Trump
administration for its efforts to scale back Obama’s unprecedented land
grab. “A president does not have the authority to rescind a national monument,” Marcario said in an
April 26 statement
after Trump announced his national monuments order. “An attempt to
change the boundaries ignores the review process of cultural and
historical characteristics and the public input.” Along with the possible lawsuit, Marcario said Patagonia would use its
profits to back pro-environmental candidates in states throughout the
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