Posted on 11/25/2023 11:05:17 AM PST by DallasBiff
A former state employee, backed by pension groups and an organization that represents public workers, is suing to overturn an Oklahoma law banning the state from doing business with financial firms accused of boycotting the fossil fuel industry.
Don Keenan worked at the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission as a disabled veterans employment and senior interviewer from 1985 to 1996, and is also the former head of the Oklahoma Public Employees Association. Keenan filed the lawsuit in Oklahoma County District Court on Monday.
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sorry no standing
Good luck with that. Woke investments are about as safe as fake crypto currency
The cancer has been injected into your personal investments because they want you poor and destitute and this is the way they can accomplish this without you even knowing it. One day you will receive a statement and it will be all zeros and they will apologize for the inconvenient
The State’s attorney should tell the judge that he needs to run for the state house if he wants to rewrite the laws. The court has no jurisdiction over the legislative branch.
If the judge balks, defund his office to prove the point.
EC
I don’t know if you mean that ironically or literally. I think he does lack standing because Oklahoma has a defined benefit retirement, probably backed by the state treasury. No particularized injury = no standing. If he does have standing the argument would be that the supposed potential harm is speculative
You have misread the article. There is a double negative in the first line. They are boycotting investment firms that won’t invest in fossil fuel companies.
“Public Employees Association” should read SEIU, bunch of PROG/LIB/COMMUNISTS!
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