IN: Attorney General criticizes Target for Pride merchandise, alleges breach of duty to shareholders

[RandySF]

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita criticized Target’s Pride campaign in a letter released Thursday, claiming the corporation is infringing on states’ ability to “safeguard citizens.”

The letter was signed by the attorney generals of six other states — Idaho, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, South Carolina and Kentucky — and expresses legal concerns over Target’s “possible violation of fiduciary duties.” They are all Republicans.

“Transanity doesn’t sell,” Rokita said in a press release. “Let’s all unite around pride in America instead of falling into the trap of dividing along lines of identity politics.”

When asked about his authority on the topic, Rokita’s office referenced the letter, which says “As the chief legal officers of our States, we are charged with enforcing state laws protecting children and safeguarding parental rights.”

The Attorney General does not prosecute criminal cases involving obscenity and nothing in state law governing the office references parental rights.

In the letter, Rokita claims the $60 billion company, which has nearly 2,000 stores across the country, sold products that promoted “gender and sexual identity” among children. Rokita lists LGBTQ+ themed onesies, bibs and overalls, shirts labeled “Girls Gays Theys,” a shirt that features drag queen Katya Zamolodchikova and girls’ swimsuits with “tuck-friendly construction” and “extra crotch coverage.”



https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/07/07/attorney-general-criticizes-target-for-pride-merchandise-alleges-breach-of-duty-to-shareholders/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Pure projection. Who's dividing along the lines of identity politics? GOP ROkita of course

Read the tea leaves as I see them.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. He Should Stick To Criminal Law

I'm no lawyer, and even I know that a marketing campaign, even if it fails, is not a breach of duty. If it fails, the rest of us just call it a mistake.
If I know it, he does too. It's just more radical right bluster.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Rokita is that stupid and crazy.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Wow!

That is galactic level crazy.

[yankee87]

3. Another Boogey Man

As always, the right needs a boogeyman to keep their sheep scared. Also as always, going after a marginalized group.

Remember to vote these idiots out!!!

[Ray Bruns]

4. This! +1

[TreasonousBastard]

5. So, sue Target for selling skirts and dresses to little girls..

identifying them as little girls.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. "Transanity" ?? Oooooh, how catchy!

Buzzwords like that are chosen to leapfrog rational thinking, to replace complex issues with simplistic stereotypes.

[rurallib]

7. As an outsider, Rosita seems like a fucking idiot

who seems to know little about law. How does someone that ill suited become AG?

Rhetorical question - we got another one like him in Iowa.

[Johonny]

8. Republicans have become anti-capitalists

[haele]

9. So he wants girls swimsuits to all be high-rise bikini cuts or thongs?

Complaining about swimsuits with extra crotch protection for girls? Hmmm.
As for the rest, who cares? If it doesn't sell, they wouldn't carry it. Niche items, like many of the ones they complain about, are sold online, not at the stores where they won't sell.
Target is in the business of selling stuff. And collecting buyer metrics. If they can accurately determine if there's a pregnant person in a household based on purchases over a couple months, they can accurately determine what will sell and what won't at a particular store.

Harle

[Midnight Writer]

10. The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have.

[LiberalFighter]

13. I didn't know breach of duty to shareholders was something in Indiana law for major corporations.