Senior White House officials were warned that solar-panel-maker Solyndra planned to announce layoffs just before the hotly contested November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show.
The White House also got advance notice that the company had agreed to postpone delivering the politically damaging news, according to the e-mails provided Friday by a government source. Energy Department officials persuaded the company to delay the announcement until after Election Day.
The newly released e-mails show the White House fretting about the bad news that was coming and discussing how to handle media questions about a company the Obama administration had made a showcase of in its effort to use taxpayer funds to create clean-energy jobs.
The real damaging news….is how much of our money the boys at Solyndra turned around and gave back to Obama….as campaign donations
…oh, and then there’s this
“Between 2008 and 2011, the company spent more than $1 million lobbying for bills including the “American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009″ and the “Solar Manufacturing Jobs Creation Act.”
Does that really surprise anyone? When your business is 100% based on government subsidies and “clean energy” requirements, you really have no choice but to lobby to continue/expand those things. If solar energy subsidies were eliminated Solyndra would have no chance of even short-term success.
Probably something that confirms that not only is America’s democracy being sold to the campaign contributors, they also pay less than pennies on the dollar on tax payer’s money piped to them by their pet politicians.
OK, but is it really news, if not reported ?
If you’re a democrat, there is only one crime – getting caught.
Once that’s reported: end of story, end of news, end of media coverage.
Huntsman’s out. Here my hotair comments:
[1] The pompous clown called his own R voters anti-science. What made him so much smarter than the rest of us? Climate science. It’s not science. It’s “science.”
[2] Overwhelmingly now Republicans don’t believe the leftist global warm scam. And that issue is very important to us. Why? Because this is where the leftists fabricated a trumped up “science,” and for many years they duped us good. Now we’re on to them, and we are furious.
Then along comes this sanctimonious Huntsman calling his own Republicans anti-science. It is one thing to try to remain low key… if you haven’t got with the program yet, but Huntsman is going to spout out loudly how much smarter he is than the rest of us, until the cows come home.
anotherJoe on January 15, 2012 at 10:39 PM
Only 11 more Solyndras in the pipeline.
Someone should be paying for this outrage.
Solyndra reportedly seeking to award bonuses to remaining employees
Published January 12, 2012| FoxNews.com
Solyndra is looking to hand out bonuses.
According to a report in The Washington Times, company attorneys have filed a proposal in federal bankruptcy court to hand out bonuses worth between $10,000 and $50,000 to about two dozen Solyndra workers.
The attorneys reportedly argue that the money will help motivate the few remaining employees in trying times, as the company goes through bankruptcy proceedings. The total value of the proposed bonuses is estimated at $500,000.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/12/solyndra-reportedly-seeking-to-award-bonuses-to-remaining-employees/
Former Solyndra CEO got $456K severance
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9QO6TG82.htm
I read somewhere where the Fed government was paying for all of the severence packages for the individual employees. The recipients probably have to sign some kind of confidentiality agreement not to talk about what a scam Solyndra was.
These types of hyjinks are inevitable when the govt is bankrolling politically favored “businesses”. Where’s David Apell?