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Solargate Opens Wide
IBD Editorials ^ | September 30, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 09/30/2011 4:54:42 PM PDT by Kaslin

Corruption: It turns out a recent recipient of the administration's largesse is from the House of Pelosi. The green energy scandal keeps picking up speed.

Last week, the Energy Department completed a $737 million loan guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy and an additional $337 million for Sempra Energy.

On the surface, there's nothing suggesting either is improper. But just beneath the surface is the clear appearance of impropriety.

Tonopah Solar is a wholly owned subsidiary of SolarReserve, which lists among its "investment partners" a company named Pacific Corporate Group. Again, on the surface, no hint of corruption.

But an enterprising blog called the American Glob dug a bit and found that "The No. 2 guy at Pacific Corporate Group is Ronald Pelosi," who happens to be the brother-in-law of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Fortune senior editor Dan Primack argues that "it is patently false" that Ronald Pelosi "will benefit from the loan."

That's a bit of a stretch, though. He might not be free to put his hands on any of those taxpayers' dollars. But if PCG benefits from the loan, so does he, just as any employee profits when his employer has healthy earnings or receives a windfall.

Merely hanging on to a cushy job due to an influx of cash qualifies as a benefit.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: danprimack; harryreid; nancypelosi; pacificcorporate; pelosi; ronaldpelosi; sempraenergy; solargate; solarreserve; tonopahsolar

1 posted on 09/30/2011 4:54:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

It’s in NV. Dingy Harry will be getting a kiss, too.


2 posted on 09/30/2011 4:58:45 PM PDT by jessduntno (Obama shanks. America tanks.)
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To: jessduntno

Check out the configuration of the site.... How many land transfers did that take? I’d like to see the title history on those parcels.


3 posted on 09/30/2011 5:01:50 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: Kaslin

No more government loan guarantees. To anyone.

No more handouts to corporations, period. No more special tax breaks for one company or industry over another.

Just a start


4 posted on 09/30/2011 5:02:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Kaslin
America must understand that all this 'stimulus' money being spread around from 0bma's "stash' is nothing more than political money for buying votes. 0bmatrons are looting the treasury to fill Democrat coffers.

No 'infrastructre' is being rebuilt. No roads are being repaired.

5 posted on 09/30/2011 5:03:04 PM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: GeronL

Absolutely. This is crony capitalism, pure and simple, if not worse, and should be shut down.


6 posted on 09/30/2011 5:06:34 PM PDT by Oceander (Not voting for the Republican Candidate is tantamount to voting for Obama)
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To: Kaslin

If I understand it correctly, there was $5B more doled out today in load guarantees to obumber doners. And yet not word from any politician, including the Tea Party Candidates elected on 2010?


7 posted on 09/30/2011 5:12:42 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of total income taxes collected. Bottom 50% pay less then 3%, fair?)
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To: Kaslin
Tweeted Rep Issa to check on Harry Reid's involvement ...

I've said before and I'll repeat it here ... in Song of Solomon it says "The little foxes spoil the vine" and it'll be all these "little" foxes [not the big natural born citizen and college transcripts and other biggies] that will bring this Administration to its knees.

Keep researching the fringes of this Administration for cracks in their armor ... they are going to fall and the fall-out will include many many Antonio Gramici/Saul Alinsky followers in Congress.

Alinsky's tactics were based, not on Stalin's revolutionary violence, but on the Neo-Marxist strategies of Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Communist. Relying on gradualism, infiltration and the dialectic process rather than a bloody revolution, Gramsci's transformational Marxism was so subtle that few even noticed the deliberate changes.
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
8 posted on 09/30/2011 5:17:37 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (I am a Catholic, A US Citizen, A Patriot, A TEA Partier, An Oath Keeper, A Voter, An Auburn Fan!)
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To: Kaslin

FIRST REPORTED HERE!

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2784962/posts?page=2#2


9 posted on 09/30/2011 5:21:59 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Kaslin

redistribution of wealth to democratic wealthy


10 posted on 09/30/2011 5:40:31 PM PDT by aces
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To: JoSixChip

Have you seen those videos of the flash mobs? They look you straight in the eye, and then steal like mad, defying anybody to stop them by force of numbers.

This is a mob, and they’re in full-scale looting mode. They know you see them, and they don’t care.


11 posted on 09/30/2011 5:51:07 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I like both Perry and Palin, and will vote for whichever of them wins.)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, yeah, yeah....just like gunrunner...this administration will get away with anything and everything. Call me a pessimist, but this stuff is getting old...from lack of college transcripts, questions about eligibility, obamacare, Soros at the helm, liberals run amok all through MSM....the list just keeps on getting longer..God help us.


12 posted on 09/30/2011 6:11:41 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: Kaslin

You gotta give Obama credit, he stays in-your-face without any shame for obvious corruption.


13 posted on 09/30/2011 6:42:56 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Kaslin

Well, well, well! Robo-Represenative Porky Pelosi finally got her hands caught in the pig poo. This could not happen at a better time!

Lemme see now, - - -hmmmmmm - - - . Surely there is someone who supports the idea of reducing the size of our Total National Debt in Porky’s district that could beat her in 11-2012. There just gotta be! Hmmmmm - - - ?


14 posted on 09/30/2011 6:53:49 PM PDT by Graewoulf ( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.)
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To: Kaslin

You didn’t really think Democrats were supporting Green for the fun of it did you?

Of course they have their fingers in the pie.

They don’t pay a million dollars in a campaign for a job that pays less than $150,000 because they love this country.

Does anyone know a poor Senator? LMAO , I didn’t think so.


15 posted on 09/30/2011 6:54:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: YHAOS

I live in Nevada.

There are NOT very many votes to ‘buy’ in Tonapah.

Old gold & minimg town.


16 posted on 10/01/2011 3:58:31 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Kaslin

The rats know they are going down in November 2012.

They are getting all they can to take with them on the life rafts. 3 layers deep to find this large sucking sound.

Darrel Issa & Grassley are going to be very busy in the coming months. How many law school graduate interns can Issa hire for little to nothing to do the digging??


17 posted on 10/01/2011 4:04:58 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles
"There are NOT very many votes to ‘buy’ in Tonapah."

With $4 1/2 Trillion in their slush fund, Democrats will buy every one of them.

18 posted on 10/01/2011 9:34:11 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Kaslin.


19 posted on 10/01/2011 6:09:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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