On Apr 13, 2014, at 2:35 PM, "arche...@embarqmail.com"
<arche...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
You mean we can't even post legitimate news sources about solar manufacturing
plants and solar farms that will provide electricity for our electric Mercedes?
For example, here's such a story from Reuters:
.....................
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Harry Reid recognized nine years ago that connections
between his official duties and the lobbying activities of his relatives could
lead to ethical questions.
In 2003, the Nevada Democrat publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his
staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions
routinely turned to Reid's sons or son-in-law for representation.
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the
Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an
effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar
farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the
company during a 2011 trip to China
<http://www.reuters.com/places/china?lc=int_mb_1001> and applying his political
muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las
Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare)
desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where
Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the non-partisan advocacy group Public Citizen, said the senator is
dealing with "an iffy ethical landscape" because of the family connections and should
recuse himself from the project. "Is this just happening because ... it benefits the Reid
family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?" Holman said.
The senator has supported numerous clean energy projects in Nevada. Rory Reid
cites energy as one of his specialty areas at the law firm.
The two Reids deny discussing the ENN project.
You mean we can't even post legitimate news sources about solar manufacturing
plants and solar farms that will provide electricity for our electric Mercedes?
For example, here's such a story from Reuters:
....................
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator Harry Reid recognized nine years ago that connections
between his official duties and the lobbying activities of his relatives could
lead to ethical questions.
In 2003, the Nevada Democrat publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his
staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions
routinely turned to Reid's sons or son-in-law for representation.
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the
Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an
effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar
farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the
company during a 2011 trip to China
<http://www.reuters.com/places/china?lc=int_mb_1001> and applying his political
muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las
Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare)
desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where
Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the non-partisan advocacy group Public Citizen, said the senator is
dealing with "an iffy ethical landscape" because of the family connections and should
recuse himself from the project. "Is this just happening because ... it benefits the Reid
family, or did Harry Reid actually believe in this?" Holman said.
The senator has supported numerous clean energy projects in Nevada. Rory Reid
cites energy as one of his specialty areas at the law firm.
The two Reids deny discussing the ENN project.
"I have never discussed the project with my father or his staff," said Rory
Reid. Kristen Orthman, a spokeswoman for the senator, said he had not discussed the
project with his son.
The Langfang, China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the
largest solar energy complex in America. The site chosen with Rory Reid's
guidance is in tiny Laughlin, Nevada, a gambling town of 7,300 along the
Colorado River, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
County officials have said that they were so thrilled to recruit a company to
the area, with the prospect of thousands of new local jobs, that they were
eager to negotiate.
ENN is headed by Chinese energy tycoon Wang Yusuo, who made a fortune estimated by Forbes at
$2.2 billion distributing natural gas
<http://www.reuters.com/sectors/industries/overview?industryCode=185&lc=int_mb_1001>
in China <http://www.reuters.com/places/china?lc=int_mb_1001>. Wang escorted Reid and a
delegation of nine other U.S. senators on a tour of the company's clean energy operations in
Langfang, and Reid featured Wang as a speaker at his 4th annual National Clean Energy Summit in
Las Vegas last year.
NEVADA'S LARGEST LAW FIRM
To advance the Nevada project, ENN retained the state's largest and most
prestigious law firm - Lionel Sawyer & Collins, where Rory Reid works. It is
headed by Richard Bryan, a former Nevada attorney general, governor and member of
the U.S. Senate.
Rory Reid faced a one-year cooling off period from lobbying the Clark County
commission after leaving his post in January 2011, and Bryan took the lead on
ENN's negotiations with the county.
Since the one-year ban expired, Rory Reid has been ENN's primary representative
before the county, according to Steve Sisolak, the board's vice chairman.
Rory Reid acknowledged representing ENN at both the county and state levels
since January. He declined to discuss the project otherwise.
Two months after Harry Reid's China trip, Lionel Sawyer registered ENN Mohave
Energy LLC as an American subsidiary of the Chinese company. The firm
negotiated with the county to buy the land rather than lease it, as the
county's staff had recommended.
In December, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to sell up to 9,000
acres of public land to the subsidiary at pennies on the dollar.
The deal spurred local controversy. Separate appraisals valued the land at
$29.6 million and $38.6 million. The commission agreed to sell it to ENN for
$4.5 million.
The county did build in certain conditions before the project could begin,
including milestones for jobs creation and investment. ENN also must assure the
county that it has a power company willing to commit to buying energy from the
solar farm. But in the eight months since the commissioners approved the deal,
no utility has signed a power purchase agreement.
However, Harry Reid stepped up again.
The Democrat recently used an online discussion related to his annual energy
summit for an as-yet unsuccessful effort to pressure Nevada's largest power
company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN's first customer.
In the July 30 discussion, Reid said the project "would start tomorrow if NV Energy would
purchase the power." The utility controls "95 percent of all of the electricity that is
produced in Nevada and they should go along with this." Reid's online comments were first
reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The power company responded by saying it had exceeded its minimum renewable
energy requirements both last year and this year, though it would consider
buying power from ENN in the future. A spokesman for NV Energy declined to
discuss the matter further.
Bryan, the head of the law firm, did not return repeated phone calls and emails.
An official with ENN in Langfang did not respond to emails.
In 2007, after a controversy over the number of lawmaker relatives engaged in
lobbying, Congress passed the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act,
sharply restricting the lobbying activities of close relatives of members of
Congress.
The law only applies to registered lobbyists and Rory Reid is not registered as
a federal lobbyist in Washington or a state lobbyist in Nevada, according to
records in both jurisdictions.
Gerry....who believes you can seldom discuss anything without eventually
getting into politics.
On 4/13/2014 1:21 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
This has gone on long enough. Politics are not an appropriate list topic as has
been pointed out numerous times in the past, and of late have overshadowed
nearly everything else.
Take it somewhere else, folks. There will be no further warnings. Posting
political topics will get you moderated.
I would rather see the traffic drop off than to have to constantly hit "Delete".
Wilton, time for a Sondy tale, please.
ListDan
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On Apr 13, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
wrote:
YOU WERE WARNED but since you are here
http://www.michellesmirror.com/2014/04/beyond-clive-bundy-real-range-war-and.html
http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2014/04/black-helicopters.html
--R
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