Author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy has exited the board of directors of indoor agriculture company AppHarvest, following several controversial tweets. — REUTERS
JD Vance, the author of the best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, has exited the board of directors of AppHarvest, according to an emailed statement from the US$1.6bil (RM6.61bil) indoor agriculture company.
The newly public Kentucky firm announced Vance’s departure in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry about some of Vance’s recent statements. On Twitter, he’d written that taxes should be raised on businesses that oppose a new spate of state-level voting restrictions.
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