[NormsRevenge]

didn't see this posted.

[NormsRevenge]

FRom the New York Observer

The Complete Ron Burkle
http://thedailytransom.observer.com/2006/04/the-complete-ron-burkle.html

[calcowgirl]

The two men first met when Mr. Clinton was running for president in 1992 and touring neighborhoods in Los Angeles that had been torched during riots after the acquittal of several police officers charged with beating Rodney King. Mr. Clinton noticed that some supermarkets were still open, and asked why, his aides recalled. He was told that those stores were not burned because the owner, Mr. Burkle, treated his customers and employees fairly. Mr. Clinton asked to meet him.

Protection racket?

A meeting was quickly set up at the Burbank airport with Mr. Burkle, then a registered Republican, who ran an empire of California supermarkets. The two men drove to a political event, then kept talking in the car for 45 minutes. Mr. Burkle said he came away in awe; he cast his first vote for a Democrat, Mr. Clinton, that fall.

Where do they get this stuff? According to the FEC, that good "Republican" was giving to Feinstein, Gray Davis, Leo McCarthy and other dems before he started giving to Clinton.

[Kenny Bunkport]

giving him the potential to make tens of millions of dollars without great effort

Has Clinton ever earned an honest dollar in his life?

[American in Singapore]

Mr. Clinton's arrangement with Mr. Burkle is an unusual one for a former president...

Nothing is unusual or beneath the Human Stain.

[thegreatbeast]

Mr. Burkle's spokesman dismissed allegations that he used his influence to get Mr. Jackson his job.

"Mr. Burkle would be proud if that were the case," Michael Sitrick, the spokesman, wrote in an e-mail. "Mr. Jackson is a good friend and has a great track record. Mr. Jackson met Mr. Busch at Mr. Burkle's house. A year later, Mr. Jackson purchased a distributorship in Chicago. He bought one of the worst performing distributorships and turned it around. Mr. Burkle would be proud to invest with Mr. Jackson but has never had the opportunity to do so."

You'd have to work real hard to lose money selling Budweiser. These distributorships should be licensed by the Treasury Dept. because they make so much money. Another Jackson shakedown.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

This story was written by a NY Times reporter who obviously feels his true calling was writting scripts for hollywood.

[onyx]

Burkle ping

[mewzilla]

Isn't Ron Burkle the guy involved with the NYP's Page Six scandal?

[Uncle Hal]

This nothing but a puff piece for Clinton and Burkle. The MSM makes me sick. I can hardly take the hypocrisy.

[nj26]

There's one truth in this article.. the Clintons have the potential to make hundreds of millions off their involvement in the Yucaipa funds when these funds begin to terminate (private equity funds typically have a 5-7 year period between investment and payout.) As somebody that works in finance, let me tell everybody that Yucaipa is the real deal in private equity. This is going to make Hillary's cattle trading look like pocket change.

Now... let's think about it some more.. what kind of damage on our society can Bill and Hillary accomplish with a billion dollars or so?