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Found the timeline on this interesting, and I hadn't seen it covered before.
On June 24th, 2002, John Sununu was named by the League of Conservation Voters as one of the "Dirty Dozen", one of the politicians with the worst environmental records of any person running for Congress or Senate:
"Republicans and Independents who care about New Hampshire's air and water should know about his votes for almost $6 billion in taxpayer handouts to the air-polluting coal industry, against less arsenic in drinking water and against holding polluters accountable for their actions," said League president Deb Callahan.
That was June 24th.
Here's some donations that came in for Sununu over the next 6 days:
June 25
$5,000 -- Northern Lights (Ted Stevens' PAC)
$1,000 -- Roger J. Chan, VECO Corporation
June 28
$1,000 -- Richard M. Hobbs II, Alutiiq Management Services (Stevens loyalist, I think)
$2,000 -- Jim Jansen, Lynden Inc. (fishing trip buddy)
June 29
$1,000 -- Steven J. Leathard, VECO Corporation
June 30
$2,000 -- Carl H. Marrs, Cook Inlet Region Inc. (fishing trip buddy).
$1,000 -- Bill J. Allen, VECO Corporation (fishing trip buddy)
$1,000 -- Mark J. Allen, VECO Corporation
$1,000 -- Peter Leathard, VECO Corporation
$1,000 -- Richard L. Smith, VECO Corporation
I could be wrong, but doesn't that look like Sununu being named one of the "Dirty Dozen" set VECO's heart aflutter? And convinced Ted Stevens to double-down?
I had no idea that the League's Dirty Dozen awards were the Miss America pageant for Big Oil. But I'm really not surprised.
Of course, that was merely how they met. Soon their love would blossom:
Between mid October and late November of 2002 Northern Lights' non federal account received a $25,000 contribution from VECO. Northern Light sent the Sununu Victory Fund $25,000.
And all Sununu did in return, apparently, was take a little fishing trip with the people that gave him tens of thousands of dollars, so that they could all talk about, um ... "fish" ...
Ah, young love.
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