[tempnow987]

This is totally false. The board owes a fiduciary duty to shareholders. It is almost certain that if they imploded the deal for political reasons that places like florida would have sued.

You really don't know how this works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98EzC_1GvGE

There have been tons of cases about this, where boards ignore rights of shareholders or those with minority interests.

[dogecoinbase]

The fiduciary duty exceeds expressed shareholder preferences -- if the board believes that a particular action is not likely to improve value, they don't have to do it, even if all their shareholders tell them to (though, of course, they might be likely to be voted out in the next election for same).