State pension funds in
If Republican Governor Rick Perry’s efforts fail to persuade the companies to divest on their own, however, he is prepared to work toward official measures to force them to make the move.
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The case for divesting from firms doing business with
Perry said he would convene a special session of the state legislature if he cannot begin divestment proceedings without passing a bill for the purpose. A law that included divestment from
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for the destruction of the Jewish State and last year vowed to “wipe
Texas Secretary of State Phil Wilson said in an interview published Wednesday in the Houston Chronicle that the amount of money in possible divestment could total “hundreds of millions of dollars.”
The Republican governor signed a bill passed by the legislature earlier this year ordering the state’s Teacher Retirement and Employees Retirement funds to divest from companies doing business with