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Boehner hands out ‘tobacco checks’ on floor of House

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John Boehner: For Sale To The Highest Bidder  

 

Republican Minority Leader John Boehner explains why he handed out bribes on the House floor

In late June of 1995 then-GOP Conference Chairman John Boehner handed out “about a half-dozen” checks from the political action committee of tobacco company Brown & Williamson Corp. to fellow Republicans on the floor of the House.

Boehner’s chief of staff Barry Jackson stated, “We were trying to help guys who needed to get their June 30th numbers up, their cash-on-hand numbers up. All leadership does this. We have to raise money for people and help them raise money.”

Boehner was forced to stop handed out the checks when two freshmen Republicans, “appalled by it,” confronted him and voiced their displeasure. Boehner’s reaction was one of tempered apology, “I thought, ‘Yeah, I can imagine why somebody would be upset. It sure doesn’t look good.’ It’s not an excuse, but the floor is the only place you get to see your colleagues. It was a matter of convenience. You make a mistake, admit it and go on. I just feel bad about it.” (Associated Press, 5/10/96)

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LICKING THEIR CHOPS, ALEC KEYSTONE PIPELINE Or Niagara Falls

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ALEC Resolution in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline

 

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Environmentalists note that in December 2010, according to Boehner’s financial disclosure forms, he invested $10,000 to $50,000 each in seven firms that had a stake in Canada’s oil sands, the region that produces the oil the pipeline would transport. The firms include six oil companies—BP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxon—along with Emerson Electric, which has a contract to provide the digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada.

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Keystone XL conflict of interest

Environmentalists note that in December 2010, according to Boehner’s financial disclosure forms, he invested $10,000 to $50,000 each in seven firms that had a stake in Canada’s oil sands, the region that produces the oil the pipeline would transport. The firms include six oil companies—BP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxon—along with Emerson Electric, which has a contract to provide the digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada.

Bill McKibben, a climate activist and co-founder of the group 350.org, wrote in an e-mail that Boehner has received more than $1 million from fossil-fuel companies, “and now we find out that he’s got extensive personal investments in companies dependent on tarsands oil.”

 

LICKING THEIR CHOPS, ALEC Threatens Military Options to Annex Canada’s Largest City AS KEYSTONE PIPELINE STALLS.

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OHIO ALEC John Boehner R, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives[.

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As ALEC MEMBER Boehner Maintains Significant Investments In Companies– Tied To The Keystone XL Pipeline Project And 2013 Gov Shut-Down

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According to public financial disclosure statements published by the Center for Responsive Politics, in 2009 Boehner invested $15,001-$50,000 in each of a number of companies that stand to benefit from the Keystone project (documents for 2008-2010 provided for comparison). The firms include six oil companies—

BP, Canadian Natural Resources, Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Devon Energy and Exxon—along with Emerson Electric, which has a contract to provide the digital automation for the first phase of a $9.4 billion Horizon Oil Sands Project in Canada. 

 Boehner has received more than $1 million from fossil-fuel companies:

Boehner Invested Between $15,001-$50,000 In BP In 2009. [Boehner 2009 Financial Disclosure,5/14/10, via OpenSecrets.org]

The United States has careened from crisis to crisis ever since Republicans took control of the House in 2010:

  • They forced a debt ceiling crisis in 2011, leading to the country’s first-ever credit downgrade.
  • They took us to the edge of the so-called “fiscal cliff” in 2012, then a few months later left us with the sequester cuts that are hurting our economy today.
  • Now, after more than two weeks of government shutdown and another debt ceiling crisis, the country’s credit might be downgraded again.

The GOP-controlled House has already passed seven bills demanding approval of the project, but none of them have advanced in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, otherwise known by the acronym ALEC, is a non-profit 501(c)3 charitable legislative organization established in 1975. The legislative members are state legislators. It is a forum to allow the members to write model laws and discuss legislative language with other members. ALEC meetings are an opportunity for the corporate and non-profit leaders to meet and provide fedback to legislators. Member legislators can then use these model bills as a template for their own.

ALEC actively tries to keep its membership, activities and communications secret.[1] This list includes members whose identity primarily has become known through internal documents leaked to Common Cause and research by members of the press.

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The Best way To Reach a Suitable Immigration Reform is Executive Office Pardon

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ImageCCA  incarcerate more people than all but 3 states and the federal government, with about 92,000 beds. And they don’t just run prisons for the states. They’re also one of the biggest operators of immigration detention facilities.  What would Mandela do?

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