Riley Moore: “I was the first elected official in the country to divest…”

“I mentioned some of my jump, my, my, my jumpstart savings program is state treasurer. But what I'm probably known for the most is I was the first elected official in the country to divest from BlackRock when I was state treasurer of West Virginia due to ESG and their boycott in the fossil fuel industry. So. But yeah, I mean, it just kind of started off as I'm, you know, I'm kind of done with working on the Hill, public service and all that, and was like, maybe I'll get back involved in.” (13:28–13:38)

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