Report says that Harken sought influence in buying Bush firm - Soros = huge Dem. $$ contributor

page A3 of the Boston Globe ^ | 7.19.02 | Michael Kranish, Globe Staff

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WASHINGTON - Billionaire investor George Soros was quoted yesterday as saying that Harken Energy Corp. purchased a Texas oil company run by George W. Bush in 1986 because ''we were buying political influence.'' Soros owned nearly a third of Harken at the time the deal was made.

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Billionaire, George Soros of SORO'S FUND MANAGEMENT:

Some recent Political Donations:

11/9/2000 $7,750 Democratic National Cmte
12/31/2001 $10,000 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
10/25/1999 $20,000 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte
6/6/2000 $100,000 DCCC/Non-Federal Account 7
12/31/2001 $15,000 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte

>12/31/2001 $12,500 Democratic Congressional Campaign Cmte (from SOROS, JENNIFER NEW YORK, NY 10011 SELF-EMPLOYED/CONSULTANT ....same $$ source, maybe wife??)

(Jennifer Soros)1/19/2002 $5,000 Handgun Control Inc

there are a load of New York Soros' giving a sh!+load of $$ to 'RATS...

Ashland, Missouri

[chiefqc]

Once again the Dumb-O-Crat leadership, traitor tiny tommy as*hole, and dickie, checkbook balancer, gepfart, are looking funny with their feet stuck in their mouths.

Soon you'll hear both of them doing the back pedaling stomp.

It's really, really sad to see just how stupid these two can be and still be able to pull their socks on in the morning.

[Lance Romance]

David Corn, of the Nation, reporting an out of context quote from Soros about Bush. Why didn't they just report Michael Moore's morning rant before his 10 egg bacon and cheese omlette.

[Drango]

Why didn't they just report Michael Moore's morning rant before his 10 egg bacon and cheese omlette.

Where's a quote from Jessie Jackson?

[FairWitness]

- about a year after Soros acquired his stake, Harken was looking for more acquisitions and targeted the Bush company, Spectrum 7. Numerous Harken officials have said over the years that Bush's presence at Spectrum 7 made the failing company more attractive than it would otherwise have been.

Harken officials put Bush on the board, gave him stock options worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and paid him a consulting fee of $120,000 a year.

This is always reported as if there was no value in the Spectrum 7 corporation and Harken gave Bush a gift. Did Spectum 7's debts outweigh its assets? Just curious.

[NativeNewYorker]

Soros told the Wall Street Journal recently that the Bush administration has shown ''no particular desire to do too much about'' corporate excesses.

...considering they ocurred on Clinton's watch, what the hell was the governor of Texas supposed to do?

[Dianna]

''I didn't know him,'' Corn quoted Soros as saying. ''He was supposed to bring in the Gulf connection. But it didn't come to anything. We were buying political influence. That was it. He was not much of a businessman.''

Sounds to me like a dead end.

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Sounds to me like a dead end.

yea, but they're still trying to ride that dead horse.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Looks like Soros and the Democrats have succeeded in running Harken down, but haven't hurt Bush very much. How sad. Whatever became of the Harken, Inc.?