Posted on 03/31/2005 6:41:25 PM PST by NormsRevenge
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Former Secretary of State Bill Jones has been named chairman of the board of Pacific Ethanol, a company he founded in 2003, the company announced Thursday.
Jones, a Republican, served as Pacific Ethanol's chairman until March 2004, when he stepped down to mount an unsuccessful challenge to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. Jones lost the Senate race to Boxer by 20 percentage points.
"I am grateful to be back as chairman of Pacific Ethanol," Jones said in a statement. "I believe that California is headed toward a transportation fuel supply crisis that could make the electricity crisis seem like a picnic.
"We need more non-petroleum fuels immediately, and I believe that Pacific Ethanol will be a leader in the production of ethanol in California."
In an effort to reduce air pollution, California law requires the use of ethanol, a colorless alcohol made from corn, as an additive to gasoline.
During the campaign, Jones came under fire from Democrats for not disclosing his financial stake in Pacific Ethanol when he advocated federal support for ethanol use. He owned 4.8 million shares in company stock worth about $25 million, according to campaign disclosure forms.
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I still can't believe that he actually ran for the nomination and then didn't mount a campaign. Not even an ad.Why did he bother? Not that anyone else stood a great chance but they would have tried.
To help the RINOs by sucking the air out of Kaloogian's campaign. Now for the payoff.
So why do you think that helped the RINOs? What did they win?
Socialists of any stripe, whether Democrat or RINO, don't want conservatives in office. To the CAGOP hierarchy, Barbara Boxer was clearly preferable to Howard Kaloogian. Once Bill Jones agreed to suck off a good part of the loyal base in the primary (upon the bait that he was pro-life), he took the fall while the Bush campaign siphoned off all the money and organizational effort. Ethanol and real estate development in the Westlands area will be the payoff, seeing as it never was any good as farmland. Just wait until they build that UC campus in Kern County and things will really take off down there.
When I was a little bitty baby, my momma would rock me in the cradle, in them old cotton fields back home... Lemme hear ya now... Oh when them cotton balls git rotten, yew cain't pick vera much cotton in them ol cotton fields back home...
You forgot to identify this as sourchasm!!!
But his tinfoil supply is well stocked.
No... I think he's right! Ask him... he'll lay it out for you and you'll need tinfoil if you can't pick up what he'll be layin down, if ya know what I mean.
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