Alabama state representative Patricia Todd announced today that her upcoming anti-discrimination bill will be named after Tim Cook. Todd plans to introduce the bill, which would prevent the government from discriminating in its hiring practices based on points such as sexual orientation, in March.
Initially Todd received pushback from Apple on the naming of the bill, with Apple saying that Cook would probably not want his named attached to a sensitive piece of legislation. After a few days, however, the company informed her that “Tim was honored to hear that State Rep. Todd wanted to name an antidiscrimination bill after him.”
Todd has said she hopes Cook will eventually be able to come speak to the state legislature about the bill when it comes up for a vote.
Cook was born in Alabama and recently returned there for his induction into the Alabama Academy of Honor, where he gave a speech panning his home state for its pace on social issues. A few days later the executive came out as gay in an essay published on Bloomberg.
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Good job.
Well, I’m glad! I actually came out to my family tonight, they were all very supportive of it. Glad to see things are moving in a good direction for us gay folk.
Congratulations! I’m glad that worked out with your family
Originally, this was probably a publicity stunt on her part. However, contributing to something so important- impacting so many lives, not to mention a piece of history, the company probably thought it wouldn’t negatively ,if not positively, affect the company in a significant way- considering that the company is well-know in the business sector. Kudos man!
Normally such bills are named after someone who suffered an injustice addressed by the bill, but whatever. I really dig Cook so it’s all good. Note that my personal admiration of Cook does not mean I’m dazzled by his reign as CEO so far…
Why does legislation have to be named after anyone?
Apple did another 180. Seems they’ve been doing that alot these days.
“Here’s how you uninstall U2 spam.”
“Here’s how you uninstall the latest OS that’s not working.”
If Apple is going to insert itself into human rights issues it ought to do something positive regarding Iran. Other than turning its back to chase a buck.