Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks, owns at least $1 million in Amazon stock and voted for that legislation. Environmentalists with stock in oil companies. A vocal social media critic with hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the owners of Facebook and YouTube. In these cases, lawmakers are often voting for policies that go against their personal financial interests. His financial disclosure form shows that he sold many of his stocks in individual companies last year.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 02, 2024 05:05 UTC