I realize that Crybaby/Coward Harry Reid cannot possibly embarrass Nevada any more than he does currently, but he certainly trying.
From the Washington Examiner: President Obama claims that political considerations did not
influence the Energy Department’s green energy loan program, but
newly-released internal emails show that his administration subsidized
Nevada companies in order to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., win his 2010 reelection campaign.
“And these are decisions, by the way, that are made by the Department of Energy, they have nothing to do with politics,” Obama said last week when asked about the green companies that have gone bankrupt despite receiving taxpayer support.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released DOE emails
today that compromise Obama’s position on two counts: one, the emails
show that Obama himself was involved in approving loans; two, DOE
officials were keenly aware of the political interests at stake, as they
regarded the loans as a way for the White House to help Reid by giving
him a way to brag about bringing federal money into Nevada....
“Reid may be desperate,” McCrea wrote. “WH may want to help. Short
term considerations may be more important than longer term
considerations and what’s a billion anyhow?” That’s a troubling closing
question given that the DOE lost over half-a-billion dollars on one
company when Solyndra went bankrupt.
In that same message, McCrea also speculated that, in light of Reid’s
campaign struggles, “there may be an opportunity to move several
transactions simultaneously, allowing LGPO to finish with a trifecta!”
A May 2010 email shows that Reid requested a meeting with Jonathan
Silver — the Obama bundler who resigned his post at DOE after the
Solyndra bankruptcy — to discuss green energy projects in Nevada.
Silver interpreted Reid’s request in light of the campaign. “Reid is
constantly hit at home for not bringing in the federal dollars,” he
wrote. Silver’s task, according to the DOE memo prepared for his
meeting, was to assure Reid that “we anticipate a good number of
projects to be approved in the coming months.”
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee notes that
“throughout 2010 LPO emails indicate that projects in Nevada were
prioritized because they were ‘high profile,’ ‘tied to larger events,’
or because they had Senator Reid’s support.”
Nevada Geothermal received a $98.5 million loan guarantee. Solar
Reserve, another Nevada project included Solyndra investors among it’s
board, received a $737 million loan guarantee (after Solyndra went bankrupt).
LS Power Associations, which used to be known as SWIP, received a $343
million loan guarantee from DOE. (Silver specifically asked for
information about the SWIP project as he prepared to meet with Reid.) http://washingtonexaminer.com/emails-show-obama-admin-used-doe-loan-money-to-help-harry-reids-2010-campaign/article/2512249#.UJH65mc8VXt
I remember this time period and at the time, I thought it was strange that Reid was making all these announcements about all these green energy plants coming to Nevada and mainly Southern Nevada.
And how many of these plants were actually built? Pretty much: none. These were all lies.
What a shock about the lies and what a shock that Reid benefited from the White House and their generosity with taxpayer money during his re-election campaign.
No wonder Reid is acting all senile and stupidly with all these false accusations about Mitt Romney. It's just payback to Obama for them helping Reid in 2010.
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