"Mr. Congel.... is a major Republican campaign fund-raiser. In 2004, he was a “Bush Ranger,” gathering more than $200,000 in bundled contributions for the Bush-Cheney re-election effort"
That's CHANGE, America?
Now you know why they call it the CLINTON-BUSH CRIME FAMILY!
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WASHINGTON — An upstate New York developer donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton’s foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman’s mall project.
Yeah, they ALL DO IT -- and that's why AmeriKa's political system is in the shitter!
Mrs. Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert J. Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.
Mrs. Clinton also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.
The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation....
Mr. Congel had been a prime force behind Congress’s passage of tax-exempt “green bonds,” a program to lower the financing costs of some $2 billion in environmentally friendly projects by exempting lenders from paying federal taxes on their income from the private bonds.
So there is your GREEN INVESTMENTS, folks! That SCAM is going to be another LOOT JOB like all the rest. I wish AmeriKa would wake up and smell the fart mist!
By some estimates, the program could cost the Treasury about $200 million.
That's alright, America; you didn't need that money for anything. Not like you are in debt or anything.
The way the legislation was written, Mr. Congel’s Syracuse development, which he agreed to build and run in a way that promotes renewable energy and recycling, was one of just a handful of projects that would qualify....
Still, Mrs. Clinton threw her weight behind the legislation. In April 2006, she took partial credit for enacting the program in an interview with The Post-Standard of Syracuse.
“I’ve been a big supporter of Destiny,” Mrs. Clinton told the newspaper. “I worked successfully to get the green bonds passed. I think it would be a big shot in the arm. It would be a destination site for the area.”
And in July 2005, when the highway bill cleared the Senate, Mrs. Clinton’s office put out a news release announcing the “$5 million that Senators Schumer and Clinton secured” for Destiny-related “design, research, construction and improvements.”
Look at this: she even crowed about it!
Although Mr. Congel has sometimes given money to Democrats, he is a major Republican campaign fund-raiser. In 2004, he was a “Bush Ranger,” gathering more than $200,000 in bundled contributions for the Bush-Cheney re-election effort.
In the most recent election cycle, he donated money to the Republican National Committee and to the Republican presidential primary campaigns of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Fred D. Thompson and Mitt Romney....
Mr. Congel also said he wanted to get to know Mr. Clinton because he was thinking of setting up his own foundation, devoted to environmental causes, and wanted the former president’s advice. Mr. Congel said he had not yet set up such a foundation, though a Destiny USA spokesman later added that Mr. Congel had attended several Clinton Global Initiative events.
Mr. Congel has also given campaign donations to Mrs. Clinton and other New York Democrats, including Mr. Schumer....
Related: Slimy Schumer
The Destiny USA project has attracted criticism. Stephanie Miner, a member of the Syracuse City Council, called it a “boondoggle” that won tax breaks with dubious economic and environmental promises.
I keep telling you, it's a scam to get into your wallet, AmeriKa!
But a Destiny USA spokesman said the savings from the tax-exempt bonds is paying for extra “green” elements — like recycled construction materials, solar power panels and an efficient climate control system — whose cost a lender normally would not have approved.
Pfffffffffffffttttttt!!!
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Don't get me wrong, readers; I am ALL FOR CLEAN and GREEN ENERGY, but ONLY if it is from the GROUND UP!
This TOP-DOWN SHIT from our "globalist saviors" just ain't cutting it with me, no matter how much perfume they submerge it in!
