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It is certainly different from what Slick Willy did. He appointed his
UNQUALIFIED,
UNETHICAL friends!
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:49:32 -0800 radman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> The Corporate Conservative Administration
> By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
>
> Compassionate conservativism?
>
> Try corporate conservativism. It's corporate conservatism that is
> going to
> be the defining feature of the Bush White House.
>
> Pushing beyond the corporate corrupting frontiers blazed by the
> Clinton
> administration, the Bush team is making clear that it intends to
> deliver
> on its campaign promises to strengthen Big Business's grip over
> government
> policy-making.
>
> The Bush cabinet is drawing on corporate executives as much or more
> than
> any previous administration. Andrew Card, set to be Bush's chief of
> staff,
> moves to the White House from a posting as General Motors vice
> president.
> Previous to that position, he ran the auto industry's lobby shop.
> Bush has
> tapped Paul O'Neill, chair of Alcoa, to head his Treasury
> Department. Bush
> crony Don Evans, the Commerce Secretary-designee, is CEO of Tom
> Brown,
> Inc., an oil company. Donald Rumsfeld, the Bush nominee to head the
> Pentagon, is former CEO of G.D. Searle and of General Instrument,
> and has
> held a variety of other top corporate posts. Bush's nominee for
> Veterans
> Affairs Secretary, Anthony Principi, is president of a wireless
> telecommunications company. National Security Adviser-designate
> Condoleeza
> Rice is a member of the board of directors of Chevron (which has
> christened an oil tanker, the Condoleeza Rice) and Charles Schwab,
> and is
> a member of J.P. Morgan's International Advisory Council.
>
> Of course, both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (CEO of Haliburton,
> the oil
> services firm) themselves both come from the oil industry.
>
> Bush's transition team is dominated by high donors and corporate
> interests. Of the 474 individuals on the transition team, 261 made
> political contributions during the last election cycle, the Center
> for
> Responsive Politics reports -- and 95 percent of the $5.3 million
> they
> contributed went to Republican candidates or the Republican Party.
>
> Even more telling is the overwhelming corporate background of the
> transition team members.
>
> The transition team for the Department of Energy, for example, is
> almost
> exclusively made up of people affiliated with or working for the
> extractive energy industry. Companies and outfits represented
> include:
> Phillips Petroleum, Enron, Kennecott, Southern California Edison,
> the
> National Mining Association and the Nuclear Energy Institute.
>
> For the Department of Health and Human Services transition, the
> drug,
> biotech, insurance and hospital industries are set to have their
> way. The
> transition team includes representatives from Merck, the American
> Hospital
> Association, Mutual of Omaha, BIO (the biotech trade group), Ernst
> and
> Young and the National Association of Health Underwriters.
>
> On the Department of Labor transition team, you find two members of
> the
> Teamsters, and no other labor-affiliated representatives. Instead,
> the
> transition team comes from Union Pacific, the National Restaurant
> Association, the American Trucking Association, the National Mining
> Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Society of Human
> Resource Managers.
>
> It's unlikely that the transition team members -- at least as a body
> --
> had much influence over Bush's cabinet appointments, but they may
> well
> have significant sway in the hiring of second- and third-tier
> officials.
> These are the people who get their hands dirty on policy details,
> and can
> deliver the goodies to the corporate paymasters.
>
> More ceremonial posts are being parceled out with a machine-like
> efficiency to high donors and top fundraisers.
>
> Inaugural Committee Co-Chairs Bill and Kathy DeWitt and Mercer and
> Gabrielle Reynolds come from the Cincinnati-based investment firm
> Reynolds, DeWitt and Company. Bill DeWitt and Gabrielle Reynolds
> were
> co-chairs of the Ohio Bush-Cheney Finance Committee. Other members
> of the
> inaugural committee sport similar resumes.
>
> Following in the Clinton-Gore footsteps, Bush-Cheney are soliciting
> private funds for the inauguration. While Clinton-Gore at least
> restricted
> the donations to $100 or less, however, Bush-Cheney are banking on
> major
> donors. More than 50 individuals have each contributed $100,000 or
> more to
> the inauguration committee.
>
> Bush's economic summit, held earlier this month in Austin, was
> actually a
> get-together with business leaders. The Austin meeting featured 36
> top
> corporate executives, including such major Republican donors as
> Kenneth
> Lay of Enron, John T. Chambers of Cisco and Michael Dell of Dell
> Computer.
>
> As you would imagine, this turn of events has corporate American
> dancing
> in the streets. "They are happy, certainly," Jim Albertine,
> president of
> the American League of Lobbyists, told the Boston Globe, speaking of
> his
> association's members. "There is a strong belief that a lot of
> things will
> be reopened."
>
> ----------------------
> Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate
> Crime
> Reporter. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based
> Multinational Monitor. They are co-authors of Corporate Predators:
> The
> Hunt for MegaProfits and the Attack on Democracy (Monroe, Maine:
> Common
> Courage Press, 1999).
>
> (c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
>
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