Posted on 12/19/2005 9:46:42 AM PST by lizol
Close Bush's Friend To Head Russian Oil Giant
19.12.2005 13:18
Donald Evans, the former commerce secretary and a close personal friend of U.S. President George W. Bush, is “seriously considering” becoming chairman of Rosneft Oil Company.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin offered Mr Evans this post last week.
Speculation about Evans’ potential move has already drawn comparisons in Washington to the recent decision by Gerhard Schroeder, Germany’s former chancellor, to oversee the North European Gas Pipeline Company, a business controlled by the Russian oil giant Gazprom. The prospect of Evans joining Russian oil giant could generate intense criticism in Washington, however, and it is still unclear whether the White House would approve his move given the sometimes frosty relationship between the Kremlin, the White House, and some of Washington’s most prominent lawmakers.
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Who is Close Bush? The brother they never talk about?
Oh, the left will go nuts.
Read "Do as I say". Did anyone know that Ted Kennedy owns an oil company? And as Senator, he has proposed and had passed legislation which gives tax breaks to small oil companies.
So when we hear the left complain that Bush is in the pocket of the oilmen, let's not leave little Teddy out of the equation.
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