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T. Boone Pickens' motives in energy plan questioned
Category: Corruption · State: California · Source: Dallas Morning News
Railing against the "club" of Big Oil and promising to shake up "management entrenchment," T. Boone Pickens once turned his epic takeover battles with oil companies into a national effort to make public companies more accountable to shareholders. He modeled his effort on a political campaign - complete with lobbyists, grass-roots supporters and his own money. A corporate raider whose duels with incumbent managers earned him millions, Mr. Pickens became the public advocate of shareholders betrayed by dull corporate bosses. Now 80, Mr. Pickens is again casting business as a "crusade," as a Democratic senator once put it. On commercials and in testimony before Congress, he is urging the country to use more wind power and natural gas - the focus of his own investments - to wean itself off foreign oil.
MI Speaker Employs State Paid Thugs to Stop Recall
Category: Blocking · State: Michigan · Source: New Media Journal
Here is a story that details how far Democrats will go to destroy the people's ability to be heard in government. It also shows Democrat's penchant to abuse their power, their blatant waste of government funds, and the incestuous relationship that the anti-democratic process unions have with Democrats. Up in Michigan, the thieves in the Democrat Party voted in a gigantic tax increase. Michigan has been mired in a one state recession for quite a while and Governor Jennifer Granholm's only solution has been to raise taxes to pay for government "shortfalls" -- and by "shortfall" you can read government waste. Well, after years of this localized recession in Michigan, the state legislature finally okayed this massive tax increase meant to "save" the state from its financial ills.
Dan Walters: Mixed bag of news for Núñez
Category: Corruption · State: California · Source: Sacramento Bee
Last week was somewhat of a mixed bag for Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez. The highlight, from his standpoint, was being selected as one of Governing magazine's nine "public officials of the year." The magazine cited his ability to put together a striking record of legislation in 2006, acting as a bridge between a liberal Legislature and Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Ad firm gives to Muni measure, gets S.F. contract
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: San Francisco Chronicle
A committee controlled by Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin and set up to promote a Muni overhaul measure on the November ballot received a $20,000 campaign contribution from Clear Channel Outdoor Inc. just two days before Peskin and other supervisors voted to award the company a Muni advertising contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 20 years.
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