What Else Is The City’s Pension Funding Besides Unionist KFC Franchises? A Druze McDonald’s?

And that’s what we pay him the big bucks for:

When a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Belfast allowed a mural depicting hooded gunmen from the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Freedom Fighters to be painted on the exterior of the restaurant in 2002, “the Comptroller’s office brought strong and swift pressure to bear,” according to a new report.

The office of the city’s comptroller, William Thompson, pressured corporate leaders of Kentucky Fried Chicken to have the illegal and divisive mural removed from the restaurant, according to the comptroller’s 29-page report.

By contacting executives at the company’s headquarters and reminding them that the city’s pension funds owned more than 1 million Kentucky Fried Chicken shares totaling more than $30 million, the comptroller was able to effect immediate removal of the offending mural, the report says. The wall was painted over within 24 hours.

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With about $9 billion invested in about 260 companies in Northern Ireland, the city has been very influential in the implementation of the MacBride Principles [anti-discrimination policies for companies doing business in Northern Ireland], the president of the Irish National Caucus, Father Sean McManus, said. “I can’t say enough about the dedication of Mr. Thompson,” he said.