Janet Howell
Ward Armstrong
Shannon Valentine
Tommy Normant
(All of This info is on taken from VPAP.org)
Margarat Vanderhye has invested between $50,000 and $250,000 in J.P Morgan Chase, Between $50,001 - $250,000 in American Funds And Between $10,000 and $50,000 in Vanguard.
http://vpap.org/cands/cand_sei_C.cfm?Tokey=COM01274
Tommy Norment invested between $10,000 and $50,000 in JP Morgan
http://vpap.org/cands/cand_sei_C.cfm?Tokey=COM00194
Janet Howell has three accounts between $50,000 and $250,000 in Fidelity, Between $10,000 and $50,000 in JP Morgan, and between $50,000 and $250,000 in Vanguard
http://vpap.org/cands/cand_sei_C.cfm?Tokey=COM00248
Ward Armstrong has between $50,001 - $250,000 in American Funds, Between $10,000 and $50,000 in JP Morgan Chase, and $10,000 to $50,000 in Vanguard
http://vpap.org/cands/cand_sei_C.cfm?Tokey=COM00016
Shannon Valentine has 4 Accounts with American Funds, 2 between $10,000 and $50,000 and 2 between $50,000 and $250,000, Between $10,00 and $50,000 with JP Morgan and Three Accounts with Vanguard, 1 between $10,000 and $50,000, and 2 with between $50,000 and $250,000
http://vpap.org/cands/cand_sei_C.cfm?Tokey=COM01186
All told, the investment's make up between $392,000 and $2.7 Million
J.P Morgan Chase, Fidelity Investments, Capital Group (American Funds), and Vanguard have all invested in PetroChina, Which supports the Islamic Goverment of Sudan, Funding their slaughter of Christians and Other Minority Groups
These legislators should immediately divest from any company that helps support genocide, to bring the point home, I have included a photograph of just one of the millions of Victim's of "The Religion of Peace"
8 comments:
Wow -- that's an expose in itself -- can you back that info up?
Wow -- that's an expose in itself -- can you back that info up?
Yes... All info can be found at vpap.org
What a tragedy... But you can bet the fairfax Gop will have a field day with this next year
PWC:
I do not find your claims very compelling on their surface. You should provide direct links to back up your claims. Just saying "can be found on vpap.org" is insufficient.
I did indeed find, after some hunting around, that your claims are almost correct. Here is the direct link, and that's the sort of thing you should offer.
I say "almost," because according to that page, four of the five show holdings between $10,000 and $50,000, and only one shows holdings between $50,000 and $250,000. You said in your original post: All of these Legislators have invested between $50,000 and $250,000 in J.P Morgan Chase. Unless you have further information, you are not justified in assuming the first four have $50K worth of JPMC stock.
Back to my first point: If you want to convince the skeptics, you should supply better links. Most people who you want to convince are not going to do your assembly of citations for you. As George Washington Carver once said, if you want the cattle to eat, you have to place the fodder where they can reach it.
As to the significance of this investment and how outraged it makes me: eh. I take your point about the unsavoriness of the connection. In an ideal world, we'd all divest ourselves of every investment in a company that does business with other objectionable parties. Further, we'd demand the same of our political leaders.
However, on the scale of what effect such investment decisions have, I am far less concerned about an elected official's drop in the bucket share in a multi-billion dollar global corporation that also does some good in the world than I am with that official's voting record on, say, invading Iraq. Or, to bring it closer to home, the official's voting record on matters related to Sudan, Africa overall, the UN, peacekeeping efforts in general, and foreign aid. Dumping $10K or $50K or $250K worth of JPMC stock is spitting in the ocean. Making the right vote on a particular bill is potentially world-changing.
All other things being equal, I might vote against a person on your list for his or her investment choices, especially if that person couldn't give a good answer when asked about it. But the weight that I assign to this particular issue makes it extremely unlikely that I'd ever get to the point of "all other things being equal."
That said, I tend to be a pragmatist to the point of cynicism about people in general and politicians in particular, so I salute your efforts to fight the good fight. I'll always admit to the need for idealists to help push us in better directions. If you care about an issue that is not as important to me, I say, good for you for making the effort to promote it.
brendan, Thank You for your research I have updated my post with more current info, take a look
I could not ask for anything better.
Thanks for your attention regarding my input.
If you hadn't commented about the error I formerly made, I wouldn't have caught the other company's, I had initially used the tool where you search by what stocks a candidate held, JP Morgan was the only darfur-related stock listed, so I assumed that it was the only ethically troubled company these legislators invested in.
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