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A123 showered Democrats with donations before bankruptcy

By zzyzzx   Follow   Thu, 18 Oct 2012, 7:27am   294 views   3 comments
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http://www.washingtonguardian.com/battery-makers-beltway-power-play

Troubled battery maker won private meeting and phone call with Obama, a trade mission slot and $250 million in stimulus money before it went bankrupt.

President Barack Obama between 2007 and 2009, and two of its top executives made personal donations to several high-profile Democrats in Congress as it won federal funding for its efforts to build the next generation of lithium batteries for electric vehicles.

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1. kentm Follow Befriend (1) 117 threads 971 comments

   1   7:38am Fri 19 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Yes but then there's this "Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion." http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza#

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   2   9:22am Fri 19 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   So we're down to Who's the straightest Crook are we?

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   3   9:26am Fri 19 Oct 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   It's hard to be repulsed anything when you can find flaws in everyone.