One of the biggest battles during the Joe Biden years was the fight to stop environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies from affecting investing. In March 2023, the Senate voted to kill Biden’s ESG investing rules in the closest thing to a bipartisan vote, but Biden vetoed the legislation.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) was one of the Democrats who voted to keep those ESG investing rules in place, and it’s easy to see why. His wife later invested in several ESG funds herself, which shows us that the Ossoffs are true believers in this woke investment strategy.
Ossoff’s wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer, invested heavily in ESG funds in 2023 and 2024. In both years, she invested in five ESG funds: iShares ESG Advanced Total USD Bond Market ETF, Vanguard ESG U.S. Stock ETF, Vanguard ESG International Stock ETF, John Hancock ESG International Equity Fund Class, and Pimco Total Return ESG Fund Class I3.
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We don’t have specific numbers from these reports, but based on the disclosure, Kramer would have invested between $1,001 and $15,000 in each fund during each calendar year. That adds up to a total investment of between $5,005 and $75,000 in ESG funds per year. Kramer invested in these funds a few months after her husband voted to protect ESG investments in employer-provided plans, though admittedly, it’s difficult to see the timing of the investments based on the disclosure form.
It might be an easy temptation to scream, “Conflict of Interest!” or even think that Ossoff is guilty of an ethics violation. That was my initial reaction to Kramer’s investments after her husband’s vote, and that’s the angle I took in an earlier version of this column. Instead, it turns out to be an apples-and-oranges comparison that still indicates a bad look rather than a blatant conflict of interest.
Ossoff’s vote to keep ESG investing in employer plans and his wife’s later personal investments in ESG funds show their commitment to woke investment strategies. It’s a bad look because it’s out of step with most hardworking Georgians who don’t want their investments to reflect the priorities of the far left.
What else would we expect from the senator who got into office on a quirk — and thanks to some Democrat shenanigans that suppressed the GOP vote in the January 2021 runoff against Kelly Loeffler? This is the man who stood against enshrining President Donald Trump’s tax cuts into law.
This is also the senator who used the flimsiest of data in a highly suspect survey to call for the repeal of the Peach State’s pro-life law. Ossoff relied on a sample of only 38 OB-GYNs for a consensus that women were supposedly dying because they couldn’t kill their babies. Georgia has 980 OB-GYNs across the state, so 38 was either a cherry-picked sample or most of the state’s doctors refused to bite on the survey.
Let’s also not forget that Ossoff voted in favor of increasing military pay, which is admirable to be sure, but he also voted against the continuing resolution that would have put those pay raises into action. He even bragged about voting for raises for our troops after he voted against funding those raises! That’s a weird flex, Jon.
Ossoff doesn’t represent Georgians. He only stands for the radicals who live in the Emory University area around him. We need to get him out of office in 2026!
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly accused Ossoff of a conflict of interest and potential ethics violation. We apologize to our readers for this error.
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