PHOENIX, AZ – Citizens for Free Enterprise CEO and Former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey today wrote an op-ed for Fox News that details how his career in business and time in public service inspired him to launch CFFE. In the piece, Governor Ducey outlines how CFFE plans to promote and protect free enterprise by activating Americans from all walks of life to participate in elections that have national, state, and local consequences.
Below you will find excerpts from the op-ed, which can be viewed in its entirety here.
Fox News: I witnessed the benefits of free enterprise, so I decided to build a movement to defend it
Governor Doug Ducey
March 1, 2023
Setting aside some of the louder voices in our politics, there’s no better place in the world to live than right here in our country. The opportunity to succeed is limitless, largely owed to the founders who built up a powerful nation on important economic principles – freedom and free enterprise.
But the current attacks on our foundational principles by activists and policymakers in Washington, D.C., state capitals across America, and at the municipal level have left me concerned. That’s why I decided to launch Citizens for Free Enterprise, a national political and issue advocacy organization dedicated to activating Americans from all walks of life to participate in elections that have national, state, and local consequences.
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Building upon lessons across my career in business and public service, Citizens for Free Enterprise plans to be an aggressive answer to the far-left activists and policymakers intent on tearing down free-market capitalism. Our goal is to support policies and people that allow for free enterprise to flourish, and to engage every day in the fights that matter.
Our hope is to attract new people and young Americans around this important cause. We are going into communities that have been ignored, but where the American Dream is alive and well.
If you go to a college campus and ask students which economic system they feel more favorable about – capitalism or socialism – it’s pretty much a 50/50 proposition. That leaves some work to be done and we’re excited to embrace the challenge.
The free enterprise system unleashed the greatest engine for growth and prosperity the world has ever seen. It’s important the next generation understands it despite the constant negativity flooding their screens daily.
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