April 2, 2007

Divestment resolution withdrawn in favor of statute

During this afternoon’s session of the State Senate in Indianapolis, Senator Greg Walker of Columbus introduced Senate Resolution 74, a compromise on the divestment of state funds from investing in Sudan. He then stated that just this morning a news story stated that five African Union peace keeping troops were killed by unidentified militia in Darfur and asked that the resolution be withdrawn in the hopes that the language of House Bill 1484, the Sudan divestment bill, would move forward in statute.

Senator David Long of Fort Wayne, president pro tempore of the Senate, then took the podium and stated that Senator Kruse, chairman of the Senate Pension and Labor Committee, held back the language because of a number of fiscal concerns. Following a meeting last Thursday with national and state advocates in the Sudan divestment movement, a number of those concerns were on their way to being addressed, and that he was in favor of getting this language into statute during the conference committee process in the days ahead.

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