I don't trust Feinstein...I don't trust any war profiteer...

[converted_democrat]

I don't trust her, I don't trust any war profiteer farther than I can throw them.. I realize this is an older article, but the sum isn't chump change. Just making everyone aware of the situation.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL

URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday worth up to $600 million.

The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense jobs snared by URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.

Government contracting has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress and citizen groups, with critics decrying the political connections of firms winning lucrative jobs. Richard Blum, Feinstein's husband, serves on the company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock, according to Hoover's Inc. research firm.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. Things that make you go hmmmm

[toymachines]

2. exactly

first thought... hmmmmm...

[converted_democrat]

6. That's how I feel about it.. It really makes me wonder where her

allegiance lies.. That's a boatload of money, by any standard.

[acmejack]

3. You shouldn't.

She has done nothing to merit trust IMO. Witness the fearsome defense of Women's rights she mounted in the hearings just concluded. Wow, I sure wouldn't want my feet held to the fire by "Diane the Dreaded"!

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Right

I agree with all of the statements.

[The Stranger]

4. Unbelievable.

[MessiahRp]

5. California Dems need to replace her...

I know she is not the best they can do out there... they could use a good Dem to oust Arnold and another to beat Feinstein in a primary and things will be much more effectively run out there... though I suppose you can't have all Senators be as good as Barbara Boxer....

(Same deal here.. we get Feingold, but then we get Kohl too... ick.)

Rp

[Coastie for Truth]

10. Try Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell

or the dreaded Darrel Issa or the dreaded Tom McClintock or the dreaded Dan Lungren. Any of them weould whip Matt Gonzales' butt.

[EFerrari]

12. Interesting that you bring Matt up. The Newsom campaign

had to bring Bill Clinton out here to defeat him, and even then it was by a hair.

Darrel Issa? I don't think so.

[Coastie for Truth]

14. i are a injunear in Santa Clara county.

[EFerrari]

16. Really? I grew up in Sunnyvale. It's changed a lot

since the Dark Ages. :)

[Coastie for Truth]

18. I live in one of the "Transit Village" complexes

on the Light Rail.

I can hop the LR to Mountain View - take the CalTrain to the City - and do my SFMOMA thing - or my Moscone Thing - or shopping - or some good SF eating -- and then right the CalTrain and Light Rail back to geek land.

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[Coastie for Truth]

9. Do you know what the company actually does?

You should have read a little further in -->

Designs "R" US might be URS's logo. URS ranks as the world's leading engineering design firm. It provides planning, design, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services to local, state, and federal governments, as well as to private and international clients. It also ranks among the top designers for the transportation industry (air and surface transportation, mass transit, and rail) and provides a broad range of engineering and architectural services to several other sectors. URS generates more than 90% of its sales in North America, although it operates worldwide. Vice chairman Richard Blum controls about 21% of the company's stock.

Check out their web page ---> URS Corp Web page.

A major division is EG&G. Do you even know who EG&G is and who founded them? was founded by , the inventor of the ubiquitous "strobe light." "Doc" was a friend, and his son "Bob" is a friend. I worked with Doc and I worked with Bob. EG&G's core strength is nano-second imaging and hands on real engineering -- not the "strategic war planning" of the Northern Virginia "Think Tanks."
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The URS Division is a construction management company--

The URS Division is staffed by approximately 15,700 talented professionals, including planners, engineers, architects, scientists, environmental specialists, and program and construction managers. We offer the full range of services required to build, maintain and improve infrastructure. We plan and design bridges, highways, mass transit systems and airports, as well as water supply, treatment and distribution systems.

Our services to the U.S. federal government spans assessment and remediation at contaminated sites to engineering and design services for military housing, courthouse and other government facilities.

URS architects and engineers design healthcare complexes, schools and other public buildings, and our program and construction management assignments cover every conceivable project and facility, including multimillion-dollar capital improvement programs.

Direct competitor of Halliburton's in the A&E Segment.
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Better pitch your PC -- Microsoft is a major war profiteer - as are IBM, HP, Oracle, etc.

[radio4progressives]

23. There are other companies that are DoD/Pentagon/Military Contracts

that have to do with weapons technology

those articles were posted here over a year ago...

[EFerrari]

11. Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone probably spin in their graves

every time this DINO votes with the Thuggery.

She's toast in the SF Bay Area, that's for sure.

[Coastie for Truth]

13. I live in the SF Bay Area - and I like her

but then again I are a injunear and not a Librul arts and crafts gradu8.

[EFerrari]

15. You can have my share, lol. n/t

[radio4progressives]

21. some of my best friends are injunear's - and they despise her

most especially for every vote she's taken in support of the Bush Crime Family's fascists policies.

[radio4progressives]

25. I live in the Bay Area and we don't like her

North Bay - Sonoma County. The Wine Country. Sure, she's got her extremely wealthy vitner elite base here, corporate Dems that date back to pre-Kennedy days, but the working class people have noticed a few things like the war vote, like escoring Condi Rice on the floor to be confirmed as Secretary of State, plus there are few local issues that have to deal with Genetic Engineering/Monsanto, and Gambling Casinos!!!

I could on, but i really don't have time right now... there's plenty of material out there, couple google searches should just about do it..

Blum is her husbands last name by the way.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. Funny how her support for the war and $600mil coincide.

Politics as usual sells.

[madrchsod]

19. she`s been a toad for the

anti file sharing crew.

[radio4progressives]

20. Yes, this is why I keep calling her a war profiteer..

DiFi's family financially benefits from war profits. which is why she voted for the war, which is why Dianne escorted Condi Rice onto the Senate hearing room, when she was being confirmed for Secretary of State, and which is why DiFi and hubby enjoy invites to exclusive white house dinner parties and other social suares.

but so few people know about it.

And since the FCMSM is also in attendance and part of the same war profiteers club, they never mention these oddities in their reports on these events, if they even bother reporting them at all.

[leftchick]

22. same thing happened during the Vietnam War

there were a few democratic war pigs then as well. They had to be exposed before they turned against the war.

[converted_democrat]

24. Thank you for that info.. I was unaware of that.. Amazing just how deep

the parallels run..

[leftchick]

26. LBJ for one....

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Nearly 40 years ago, Halliburton faced almost identical charges over its work for the U.S. government in Vietnam -- allegations of overcharging, sweetheart contracts from the White House and war profiteering. Back then, the company's close ties to President Johnson became a liability. Today -- as NPR's John Burnett reports in the last of a three-part series -- Halliburton seems to be distancing itself from its former chief executive officer, Vice President Dick Cheney.

The story of Halliburton's ties to the White House dates back to the 1940s, when a Texas firm called Brown & Root constructed a massive dam project near Austin. The company's founders, Herman and George Brown, won the contract to build Mansfield Dam thanks to the efforts of Johnson, who was then a Texas congressman.

After Johnson took over the Oval Office, Brown & Root won contracts for huge construction projects for the federal government. By the mid-1960s, newspaper columnists and the Republican minority in Congress began to suggest that the company's good luck was tied to its sizable contributions to Johnson's political campaign.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1569483

[converted_democrat]

27. Thank you for all that info, I didn't know any of that... Thank you for

info, and the link.. I'm going to spend my evening researching it.. History is so underrated...

[EFerrari]

30. Now we know how dirty you have to be before HALLIBURTON

distances itself from you.

[converted_democrat]

31. It looks like you're correct.... Sad state of affairs our country is in

right now. Really sad.

[Neecy]

28. it isn't just URS...

There's lots out there that documents Blum's far-flung network of investments. Here's one source:

http://www.homowiki.com/wiki/index.php/Dianne_Feinstein

[converted_democrat]

29. Thank you for that info, I'll go look it up later...I don't trust her, and

it looks like I have good reason....

[converted_democrat]

32. Holy crap..... I had no idea...

http://www.homowiki.com/wiki/index.php/Dianne_Feinstein
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We'll begin our sordid story with URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm that specializes in defense work. Blums' investment company controls approximately one quarter of the company's stock.

In July of 2002 - coincidentally, just as the Bush administration was focusing its energies on selling the Iraqi 'threat' to the world - URS acquired defense contractor EG&G (more on them later - much more) from the Carlyle Group investment firm, the group that featured ex-President George H.W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker and ex-British Prime Minister John Major as advisers.

In exchange, Carlyle received cash and URS stock worth a total of $500 million. Additionally, a top Carlyle manager now sits alongside Blum on the URS board of directors.