Governors Warned

The Conservative Treehouse website posts a transcript of part of a speech Secretary of State Pompeo made on Feb. 8, 2020, to the National Governors Association. His topic was how China is trying to manipulate state governors by offering "to invest big money in your state, perhaps in your pension, in industries sensitive to our national security." The former CIA Director adds:

Last year, a Chinese Government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China. They labeled each of you “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.”

I’ll let you decide where you think you belong. Someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report are referenced by name.

So here’s the lesson: The lesson is that competition with China is not just a federal issue.

Pompeo infers he's read the report and knows who the fellow travelers are, who has sold out. In the event that conflict with China becomes more open, those quislings could end up in orange jumpsuits or hanging from lampposts.

Do you suppose there were some tight sphincters in that room? It appears to have been Pompeo's intent.