Al Gore wangled $529 million taxpayer loan for electric cars made in Finland.

Coach is Right ^ | 9/18/2011 | Doug Book

[Oldpuppymax]

Just when you thought crony handouts of taxpayer millions couldn’t get much worse than the White House managed Solyndra debacle, along comes the story of global warming shyster Al Gore and fledgling, plug-in hybrid car maker Fisker Automotive, Inc.

In 2009, Gore happened to be at an event hosted by the California venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers.

Of course, Al happened to be there because he is a PARTNER in the firm.

Well low and behold, Fisker CEO Henrik Fisker just happened to be there too and pitched Gore on the virtues of his 50 mile-per-battery-charged, $89,500 Karma luxury sedan. And Al, we are told, immediately handed Fisker a deposit for a new Karma motor car…green, probably.

For as we all know, Gore believes that “…a global shift of the automobile fleet toward electric vehicles, accompanying a shift toward renewable-energy generation, represents an important part of a sensible strategy for solving the climate crisis.”

Or so Al’s spokeswoman says. Later on she’ll explain how his well publicized fleet of Chevy Suburbans and Tahoes lends itself to that sensible strategy.

Well the Wall Street Journal tells us that Gore’s venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins was already a big investor in Fisker Automotive.

Equally surprising and unexpected is the fact that employees of the firm had donated some $2.2 million to “political campaigns”, “…including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

So when Fisker Automotive applied to the Department of Energy for a loan, in April of 2010 it walked away with $529 million taxpayer dollars, scored from a $25 billion fund Congress had established to help automakers meet legislative mandates for fuel economy.

[RJS1950]

While wanker is one of the primary descriptors for the bloated sex poodle, wangled might also be an appropriate term for the wanker’s actions. After all, the POS does style himself as one of the last of the big time wang danglers. Maybe the wanker dangled his wang for whomever at DOE to get the loan. Wouldn’t surprise me.

[Tunehead54]

How about finagled? See def # 3 ... ;-)

fi·na·gle verb \fə-ˈnā-gəl\ fi·na·gledfi·na·gling Definition of FINAGLE transitive verb

1 : to obtain by indirect or involved means

2 : to obtain by trickery intransitive verb

3: to use devious or dishonest methods to achieve one's ends — fi·na·gler noun

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Examples of FINAGLE

A con man finagled my neighbor out of four hundred dollars.

Let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum>

Origin of FINAGLE
perhaps alteration of fainaigue to renege
First Known Use: circa 1924

[demkicker]

I agree with you 100%!!!