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To: joseffy who wrote (629418)	9/25/2011 1:09:42 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578303

> the fact that Solyndra’s big backers include the George Kaiser Family Foundation. No, of course not. George Kaiser, an Oklahoma oil magnate, just happens to be a major Obama fundraiser who bundled oodles in contributions for the president’s 2008 campaign. 1. The GKFF invested in it in 2006 2. Money earned by the GKFF, by definition, cannot benefit George Kaiser personally. 3. The Walton family was a bigger investor in the company than the GKFF 4. I'm pretty sure George Kaiser was a Republican until the 2000s. Not really a partisan. >Solyndra officers and investors are said to have visited the White House no fewer than 20 times while the loan guarantee was being considered and, later, revised. Kaiser, too, made several visits So what? I'm sure many of the execs who recekved money had to visit the White House a lot. I've received grants where I've had to visit the funders ten times to receive money. >You’re to believe that the White House was just turning up the heat on OMB and DOE because Solyndra seemed like such a swell investment. Yeah. Exactly. -Z