article_snippet.sent: Hours after the company's CEO, Doug McMillon, called on Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson to veto the bill, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson held a news conference and announced Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson would not sign the bill unless the bill language was fixed.
article_snippet.sent: It's easy for someone like a Chick-fil-A to take a really polarizing position," said Dwight Hill, a partner at the retail consulting firm McMillanDoolittle.
article_snippet.sent: After Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican, signed his state's religious freedom bill into law, CEOs of companies big and small across the country threatened to pull out of his state.
article_snippet.sent: The resistance came from business leaders of all political persuasions, including Bill Oesterle, CEO of the business-rating website
article_snippet.sent: Angie's List and a one-time campaign manager for former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.
article_snippet.sent: Oesterle announced that Oesterle company would put plans on hold to expand his company footprint in Indianapolis in light of the state's passage of the religious freedom act.
article_snippet.sent: NASCAR, scheduled to hold a race in Indianapolis this summer, also spoke out against law.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who previously served on Walmart's board of directors, called on Hutchinson to veto law, saying law would "permit unfair discrimination" against the LGBT community.
article_snippet.sent: Jay Chesshir, CEO of the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce in Arkansas, welcomed Hutchinson's pledge on Wednesday to seek changes to law.