CT Insider: Report: Cigna announced the end of political contributions, then renewed them
CT Insider: Report: Cigna announced the end of political contributions, then renewed them
Last year, after Trump-inspired supporters attacked and trashed the United States Capitol in the invasion of the seat of government, dozens of U.S. corporations pledged to stop or at least delay making political contributions to members of Congress who played a role in the uprising designed to keep Trump in power.
Bloomfield-based insurance giant Cigna was among them, telling employees it would end political contributions for politicians who “hindered the peaceful transition of power” or who “encouraged or supported violence.”
Since then, Cigna has written checks totaling tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers who voted to reject the results of the Electoral College, a research and advocacy organization has found. Those results seated President Joe Biden. …
Cigna seems to be caught in a moral miscue, Cheri Quickmire, executive director of the elections watchdog Common Cause in Connecticut, said.
“They weren’t being truthful when they made that pledge,” Quickmire said Thursday. “They had no interest. They wanted to get some press and attention by making the declaration. But clearly if it resumes so quickly it wasn’t sincere.”