Gianforte Needs to Pick a Side. Russia or Montana?
I understand people can end up investing in awful things when they go through a broker or a mutual fund. But sometimes people intentionally invest given the performance of a certain stock and do not seem to care about the reasons why it performs so well. This is how Greg Gianforte explained his investment in an index fund that has holdings in numerous Russian companies.
For a businessman or a day trader it makes sense to look purely at the growth of a fund. But Gianforte is not purely a businessman anymore. He ran for governor and now is running for Congress. So he should know what is in his portfolio because that is how people are going to understand then judge his values.
Not all Russian business has ill intentions and there is not evil behind every corner. However, most of the businesses Gianforte has chosen to stick with are involved with Russian President Vladimir’s Putin’s creeping annexation of nearby countries, brutal internal repression, and tied to many of the people named and highly suspected in the election interference of 2016. Keep in mind the date of this disclosure to the clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives: March 17, 2017. Gianforte is signaling he continues to invest in these companies and said as much on debate stage this past weekend. It is important to remember Gianforte only answered that he invested in these stocks based on their performance when pressed by Quist and not anyone managing the debate.
For some reason national security takes a pass during Congressional races in this state. Yet Montana has the highest per capita concentration of veterans in America and many of our citizens and our National Guard troops have deployed to combat zones… recently. If we do not have the right representation in Congress, they could deploy numerous more times. Montana’s farmers and ranchers are dependent on foreign access. So if, say, Russian interests are to overrun Europe and make it dependent on its resources then that is a bad thing for Montanans. But by all means, let us concentrate on who has a hunting license.
Read more: http://mtcowgirl.com/2017/05/01/gianforte-helping-fund-the-downfall-of-western-democracy-2/
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