http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=160x35848I know a similar bill has been passed in other states, and tried to be passed in other states.
the neo-cons have been able to get Democrats to author the bill in MN. How sad.
... My warning to Minnesota Legislators apparently fell on deaf ears last week as the Minnesota Senate Finance Committee voted on Friday to go back to the Bush-Cheney neo-con agenda in ordering the Minnesota Investment Board to embark in making Mid-east policy by divesting from energy companies doing business with Iran. On Friday, one DFL Senator, Steve Murphy, actually interrupted a witness (who was trying to explain the economic impacts of such divestment) by going on the following tirade which Sen. Murphy proudly admitted was "beating the Republican drum." In doing so, Murphy not only voiced Republican Newt Gingrich's and Israeli extremist Avigdor Lieberman's agenda which is in opposition to the diplomatic approach that Obama has charted in dealing with Iran but, in referring to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon as the reasons why he's voting for Senator Terri Bonoff's (AIPAC-inspired) divestment bill, Senator Murphy became equally unhinged:
"These companies that are working in Iran, that are invested there, that are invested in Iran, that is so unpatriotic, it's unbelievable! Now I'm going to start beating the Republican drum here! Mr. Chairman, this is idiotic that we allow anybody to do business with governments that are trying to destroy us! Period! And if these businessmen have problems with us saying that they can't do that, tough!"
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