Candidates' finances revealed

The financial disclosures of some presidential candidates (others filed extensions so their reports could be more thorough) reveal some interesting information. From the Baltimore Sun:

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Obama and his wife this year transferred about $180,000 from the Vanguard Wellington Fund to Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund after discovering that a small amount of the Wellington Fund is invested in an oil field services company that is active in Sudan.

Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, an outspoken critic of the violence in Sudan, also divested his stock portfolio of companies that do business with the African nation.

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In other filings, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a presidential candidate who has called for a drastic reduction in the use of fossil fuels, reported holding $250,000 to $500,000 in stock options from North America's largest independent oil refiner.

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