New York Is Weighing Divestment From the Capitol Riot’s GOP Enablers
New York legislators are requesting a review of pension investments flowing to Wall Street firms whose executives funded groups that boosted the Republicans who tried to overturn the election.
View from Wall Street, New York. (Richard Schneider / Flickr)
New York lawmakers are demanding the state and city review pension fund investments in key companies whose executives have funded Republican lawmakers who tried to block the certification of the national election.
Their request cites the Daily Poster’s reporting on the links between pension funds and the major financiers of groups that support the GOP lawmakers who objected to the Electoral College results and egged on the insurrection at the US Capitol.
The New York legislators’ demands come as a coalition of grassroots groups is launching a nationwide campaign to pressure public officials to review how much of the nation’s $5 trillion public pension system is subsidizing the far-right movement in America.
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