Posted on 09/20/2011 2:10:31 PM PDT by sunmars
A key unanswered question in the Solyndra loan investigation concerns the role George Kaiser, the Oklahoma billionaire and major Obama fundraiser whose Family Foundation owned a large stake in the failed solar-panel company. Kaiser made multiple visits to the White House in the week before the Department of Energy approved a $535 billion guaranteed loan to Solyndra on March 20, 2009, and helped arrange 16 separate meetings between top White House officials and Solyndra executives around that time. Yet Kaiser maintains that he “did not participate in any discussions with the U.S. government regarding the loan.”
But as the following video clip reveals, when it comes to steering government funds his way, Kaiser knew exactly what he was doing. Indeed, here he is July 2009 openly boasting about his ability to get his hands on stimulus funding. “There’s never been more money shoved out of the government’s door in world history, and probably never will be again, than in the last few months and in the next 18 months,” he says. “And our selfish parochial goal is to get as much as it for Tulsa and Oklahoma as we possibly can.”
Kaiser cites his “multiple trips to Washington” and his ability to secure meetings with “all the key players in the West Wing of the White House.” He also touts his “almost unique advantage,” through his foundation, of being able to match public dollars with private funding. That way, Kaiser says, the Obama administration will know “we’ll watch over it because we don’t want to be embarrassed with the way our money is spent and so we won’t make you be embarrassed with the way your money is spent either.” Sure, what could possibly go wrong?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Is THIS Obama’s scape goat? Could be.
But that billionare will hire a building full of lawyers and nothing will happen.
Is he from THE Kaiser family? Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Steel?
The big question in my mind is where did the $1 billion in Obama’s campaign war chest come from, given that Obama is one of the most unpopular and incompetent Presidents in history?
Obama isn’t incompetent, he’s well on his way to achieving his main goal: destroying America’s economy and world standing.
No, he’s Kaiser of Kaiser/Francis Oil Co, founded by his father, a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany. He is CEO of BOK (Bank of Oklahoma).
...try Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Soze
“...the White House in the week before the Department of Energy approved a $535 billion guaranteed loan to Solyndra on March 20, 2009...”
$535 million
If the guy was such a financial genius, then why did he invest in a losing technological process easily under-costed by the the Chinese...or was his motive more sinister?
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