Does anyone think Jeb * had anything to do with NO pump contract?

[babylonsister]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_on_re_us/katrina... ;_ylt=A0SOwlDEiDZGyNcAwgOs0NUE

Corps asked to explain pump contract

By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - When the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications — typos and all — from the catalog of the manufacturer that ultimately won the $32 million contract, a review of documents by The Associated Press found.

The pumps, supplied by Moving Water Industries Corp. of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and installed at canals before the start of the 2006 hurricane season, proved to be defective, as the AP reported in March. The matter is under investigation by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

In a letter dated April 13, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., called on the Corps to look into how the politically connected company got the post-Hurricane Katrina contract. MWI employed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush's brother, to market its pumps during the 1980s, and top MWI officials have been major contributors to the Republican Party.

While it may not be a violation of federal regulations to adopt a company's technical specifications, it is frowned on, especially for large jobs like the MWI contract, because it could give the impression the job was rigged for the benefit of a certain company, contractors familiar with Corps practices say.

The Corps' January 2006 call for bids for 34 pumps used the wording on how the pumps should be built and tested, with minor changes, found in MWI catalogs.

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[rudy23]

1. Yes

Yes

[Old and In the Way]

2. Organized Crime always has a piece of the action.

That's how things get done.

[lutefisk]

3. Considering MWI has paid Jeb $650k in the past... it's possible

This is the Bush way- government money, government loans, scams, cronyism... what a bunch of crooks.

"David Eller, a Broward County Republican fund-raiser who partnered with Jeb Bush to market water pumps to poor countries around the world. The company relied on pump sales financed by U.S.-backed loans when President Bush was in the White House. Jeb Bush's take: $648,250."

http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html

[babylonsister]

4. That's a lot of dough. Why is it that everyone in that family

seems to have their fingers in shady enterprises? Is there an honest *, anywhere?

[madokie]

6. NO

[lutefisk]

7. Neither Jeb nor Junior has ever earned an honest dollar

Jeb's rise to riches is even sleazier that George Junior's rise. Jeb has just enough intelligence to work some deals, while Junior essentially has had everything handed to him:

"The 45-year-old Republican nominee for governor has hawked luxury condos in South Florida, sold industrial sites for IBM, made bank loans in Venezuela and marketed giant water pumps in Nigeria. He has even tried to sell imported shoes to Wal-Mart.

His corporate ties are a web of more than two dozen companies, including obscure, privately held ventures called Uno, Uno Dos and Oriental Trading, and bigger public companies such as SunTrust, Anchor Glass, Ideon and American Heritage Life Insurance.

Bush's network is far-reaching and lucrative. The 27-year-old who arrived in Miami in 1980 so broke that he used his American Express card to pay his MasterCard bill is now worth $2.4-million. "

http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. Gee , ya think so??

:sarcasm:

Nothing that POS family would do ever surprises me. The whole lot of them should be locked in jail and the key thrown away....