Graham: Will Bush only upgrade electrical grid if his donors can profit?

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http://www.grahamforpresident.com/news/0308/030828-1.php

<<Bush Gives Cheney's Former Firm $1.7 billion in No-Bid Contracts

Albuquerque, NM -- Government documents reveal that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's former firm Halliburton, is expected to receive $1.7 billion in no-bid contracts from the Department of Defense for work done in Iraq. Despite inquiries from Congress and promises to open up the process to competitive bids, the Bush Administration has awarded Halliburton contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars more than previously disclosed.

"The American people have needs right here at home," U.S. Senator Bob Graham said today. "If we can spend $4 billion each month to rebuild Iraq and funnel more than a billion dollars into the hands of George Bush's friends, why can't we invest in things Americans need at home, like a reliable electrical grid?

"Earlier this month, a blackout in the northeast and Midwest put tens of millions of Americans in the dark for days. Despite warnings of an impending crisis, President Bush and his Republican allies in Congress blocked a plan to invest $350 million in upgrading the electrical grid in 2001. Yesterday, Bush Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said that it could be weeks before the government knows what caused the failure of the electrical grid.

"Maybe we need to find some Republican donors who can make money upgrading the electrical grid to get this President to take our needs seriously," Graham continued.>>

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1. Ironically, First Energy/Ohio are big time GOP donors

Their management coughs up all kinds of dough for state and local Goops.