Between listening to talk radio and reading posts from this group, my head is spinning.
Will the real planet earth please stand up, so I can figure out which one I'm on! Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vortex" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:24 PM Subject: OT: Secondary Disaster hits New Orleans > Who is Joe Allbaugh ? > > Disaster Pimp, bag-man deluxe, or just a "very lucky" citizen? > http://slate.msn.com/id/2125756/ > > The Shaw Group - a Louisiana construction firm, represented by Joe > Allbaugh, President George Bush's former campaign manager, and > former head of FEMA - won a $100-million **no-bid** FEMA contract > to work on a "variety of tasks," within hours of the Bush disaster > relief announcement (as...with Tom's help there is no Delay). > > No one seems to know what the $100-million worth of **no-bid** > FEMA "tasks" consist of, other than personal enrichment and graft, > nor why this huge contract was not let out for competitive > bidding, as is normal even in disasters - nor why Allbaugh was > even allowed to get his foot in the door - a seeming conflict of > interest for the former FEMA head. > > This is almost a joke, were it not a dead serious payback, at > great taxpayer expense, to a former Bush campaign manager. > > Shaw Group also won a $100-million contract from the Army Corps of > Engineers to work on "de-watering New Orleans." The Corps says it > contacted four companies, and Shaw was the only one to bid. Check > out Shaw's PAC contributions.... > > The other companies deny that any timely request for bids was made > by the Army. The $200 million net for no-bid work, arranged by > Allbaugh could probably be done for a quarter of that sum, given > normal competitive bidding, say the watchdog groups, who are never > covered on the national News. That would be unpatriotic, no? > > Allbaugh's fee for both - reported to be $30 million - off the > top. Typical finder's fee according to insiders, nothing unusual > ??? > > Thank you very much, Dick and George. Yes Dick is in here with the > payola also. Whenever taxpayer money is there for the taking, > Cheney's shadow is overlooking everyting. Another Allbaugh > client - KBR, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vice President Dick > Cheney's former firm, Halliburton Co. and an offshore tax haven - > also was hired immediately for Katrina work, ostensibly under an > existing contract with the Navy but with **no-bid** add-ons. The > Navy even tried hard not to mention the name "Halliburton" until > asked about who owned KBR. > > "It appears the same cast of characters is raking up these > contracts that got money from the Iraq reconstruction," said Beth > Daley, spokeswoman for the Project on Government Oversight, a > Washington advocacy group. > > Within days of this disaster the politicos have there hands in the > taxpayers pocket. Do they have no shame? > >
