Mercer run Renaissance Technologies Enters Divestment Campaign Crosshairs

[bronxiteforever]

October 25, 2017

Sleeping Giants — initially set up to deprive Breitbart and other conservative media outlets of ad dollars after the 2016 election — announced its new campaign on Monday. The group is encouraging supporters to email or tweet at institutions’ board members and executives, and urge them to pull capital from Renaissance Technologies. The campaign arose from an article purporting to name some RenTech investors, published last week by progressive news site ThinkProgress. “These wealthy institutions are quietly financing white nationalism,” authors Judd Legum and Danielle McLean state in the headline, then profess to follow the money from public pension funds, university endowments, and charities to Renaissance Technologies and its co-CEO Robert Mercer, who in turn co-owns Breitbart News.
“There are no sides to this,” a spokesperson for Sleeping Giants countered, when reached by phone. “This is not a political thing. We just think that if you’re giving money to someone who is going to use it to fund white nationalism or racism or sexism — especially if you have diverse students and faculty — it feels hypocritical.”

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b15b5dvwz6x07f/renaissance-technologies-enters-divestment-campaign-crosshairs

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Just do not forget this,

Mercer and Company has a 6.8 Billion Dollar thing hanging with the IRS. And you wonder why he befriended Trump. It is all about the money.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Aint that the truth!

[Wellstone ruled]

3. And the Media will not cover this story.

[Frustratedlady]

4. That's a bunch. What was that for?

I'd love to see them go down. Their smirk is more than I can stomach.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Bob Mercer's

Hedge Fund claimed questionable write offs and got caught to the tune of 6.8 billion. This is why Chaffetz and others attacked the IRS Commissioner. Follow the money,and who the players are and what they expect in return.

[Frustratedlady]

6. You'd think someone like that stay low and quiet.

He and his "lovely" daughter (not) seem to be thoroughly enjoying life and what pranks they are up to. If we could collect all the fraud dollars and fake write-offs, not to mention the money hidden in foreign banks, our country wouldn't be carrying a debt.

I'm to the point where when I see a 1%'r, I question how they got there.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. So agree.

That is why Tax Lawyers are Billionaire's for the most part. This is how the big money is made. Hook'em-Screw'em and Howe!!!