Firms with Bush-Cheney Ties Clinching Katrina Deals

[Raster]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0912-08.htm

Published on Monday, September 12, 2005 by USA Today

At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast.

Joe Allbaugh, seen here working on the Bush 2000 campaign, has at least two corporate clients with Katrina deals. (Paul Whyte, USA TODAY)

One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.

Bechtel National Inc., a unit of San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp., has also been selected by FEMA to provide short-term housing for people displaced by the hurricane. Bush named Bechtel's CEO to his Export Council and put the former CEO of Bechtel Energy in charge of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

Experts say it has been common practice in both Republican and Democratic administrations for policy makers to take lobbying jobs once they leave office, and many of the same companies seeking contracts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have already received billions of dollars for work in Iraq.

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Who didn't see this coming ? I wonder who many of these contracts are the "no bid" type?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. That was part of the plan from the day FEMA was made part of Homeland

Security.

[Raster]

3. if these aren't the most parasitical mothers...sheesh. You can't turn

around with bushco* or a * collaborator trying to feed off of you or yours. I *hate* these bastards.

[Canuckistanian]

2. Booooring....

I'm surprised it took this long.

Hey, maybe that's what the FEMA delay was all about. Bushco was setting up all the deals and "forgot" about the human disaster.