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Bass Had Nothing to Do With Setting One Up?

by: Dean Barker

Thu Oct 14, 2010 at 21:13:38 PM EDT
Kevin Landrigan:
As for the meeting with President George W. Bush's energy secretary, Bass said he had nothing to do with setting one up and said he has never spoken with Bodman about the biomass industry.
A screenshot of a portion of page 6 of the Pellet Fuels Institute Newsletter, March 2006 (.pdf):

For much more detail on this emerging scandal, see here and especially here.

UPDATE: In less than 24 hours, this story is now national. And the denials continue:

And he said Bass in no way arranged the Bodman meeting, despite the company's claims. He explained that Bodman spoke with Walker in the course of a scheduled stop by the secretary at a well-known energy company. Several other industry representatives were there.

"It was more of a press event than a meeting," Tranchemontagne said.

Really?

Do note the words "meet one on one" in the sreenshot above.  You can see them right next to "The meeting, arranged by New Hampshire Congressman Charlie Bass..."
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Bass Had Nothing to Do With Setting One Up? | 4 comments
There you go again... (0.00 / 0)
squishy liberal pinko bedwetter, don't you know the difference between 'setting up' and 'arranging' ??? Huh, don't you?

6 days till election day
Have you knocked on doors today? Have you made calls ? Have you talked to your neighbors ?  
"who you gonna believe?" (4.00 / 1)
"Me, or your lying eyes?" ~ Charlie Bass ( via Richard Pryor and Groucho Marx)  

member of the professional left  
Oh, jeez. Charlie didn't do anything. He had a staff. (0.00 / 0)
Congresscritters are front-men.  The staff does all the work, the congresscritters take the credit and, usually, the staff takes the blame and gets fired.  Now there's nobody to fire, so what's to be done?
What is it that we think schedulers and press handlers and transportation arrangers and communications experts do?  
Not accurate, Hannah (4.00 / 1)
I spent nearly five years on the Hill, and I know how congressional offices operate.  Some may be "front-men", while others, such as my former boss, manage every substantive decision that comes out under their names.  But this much is clear:

Mr. Walker didn't go to staff to set up a meeting with the US Secretary of Energy.  He went to his uncle.  And staff members don't have the juice to schedule meetings with the Cabinet on their own whims.  But powerful members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee do.  And Charlie did.

Set aside the money issue for a moment.  If an uncle uses public trust to promote his nephew's financial interest, he should be removed from office and indicted.  This is government at its worst.

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