# Prof. David Yermack on Clayton Williams Energy's political donations

1 Faculty News April 21, 2014 ![Associated Press logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031530.jpg?itok=uSjLQY9n)>

Excerpt from [Associated Press](http://nypost.com/2014/04/21/nyc-comptroller-questions-oil-firms-political-giving/) -- “'If the company is donating to the NRA it’s perfectly reasonable for the shareholders to ask for a report on political donations,' [Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack) said. 'If it’s his private money that’s not really a proper topic — what people do with their own money on their own time.'”

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