Washington – Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback, a critic of the violence in Sudan, divested his stock portfolio of companies that do business with the African nation.
The senator from Kansas listed sales of nearly two dozen investments, several of which were mutual funds whose holdings include companies active in Sudan, according to a financial disclosure report he filed Tuesday. Among them was a mutual fund in the name of Brownback’s wife valued at between $50,000 and $100,000. Other Sudan-related investments were in the names of the couple’s children.
Brownback also listed a blind trust held jointly with his wife that is valued between $1 million and $5 million.
Brownback was the first presidential candidate to make his financial report public Tuesday as he filed it with the Federal Election Commission.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and Republican Tommy Thompson joined three other presidential candidates in obtaining extensions to file their personal financial disclosure reports.
The reports identify assets, liabilities and sources of income of the candidates and their spouses. Other candidates filed their reports with the FEC by Tuesday’s deadline. The FEC will make them public within days.
The others who received 45-day extensions are former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, all Republicans.
