{"id":3128,"date":"2007-12-17T07:56:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T07:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2007-12-17T07:56:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T07:56:29","slug":"12th_annual_lum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3128","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Lump of Coal Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/12\/16\/BUGHTUU2K.DTL\">Chuck Jaffe<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At most holiday feasts, the second helping is more filling than the first.<br \/>\nThat should be the case in my annual buffet of fund buffoonery, the 12th annual Lump of Coal Awards, recognizing managers, executives, firms, watchdogs and other fund-industry types for action, attitude, behavior or performance that is misguided, bumbling, offensive, disingenuous, reprehensible or just plain stupid.<br \/>\nLast week, I highlighted 10 award winners who deserved nothing more than coal in their holiday stocking this year. Here are the rest:<br \/>\nFailing to get out the vote: Managers of the Blue funds. The tiny Blue funds allow Democrats to invest in companies that &#8220;act blue&#8221; and &#8220;give blue.&#8221; Beyond that, management claims to be &#8220;actively engaging in shareholder resolutions and proxy voting in an effort to promote increased transparency in corporate political giving.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2007\/12\/16\/BUGHTUU2K.DTL\">Chuck Jaffe<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>At most holiday feasts, the second helping is more filling than the first.<br \/>\nThat should be the case in my annual buffet of fund buffoonery, the 12th annual Lump of Coal Awards, recognizing managers, executives, firms, watchdogs and other fund-industry types for action, attitude, behavior or performance that is misguided, bumbling, offensive, disingenuous, reprehensible or just plain stupid.<br \/>\nLast week, I highlighted 10 award winners who deserved nothing more than coal in their holiday stocking this year. Here are the rest:<br \/>\nFailing to get out the vote: Managers of the Blue funds. The tiny Blue funds allow Democrats to invest in companies that &#8220;act blue&#8221; and &#8220;give blue.&#8221; Beyond that, management claims to be &#8220;actively engaging in shareholder resolutions and proxy voting in an effort to promote increased transparency in corporate political giving.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}