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imanamerican63

(13,763 posts)
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 10:55 AM Oct 2017

Well, if that ain't funny how that worked out?

A small electrical company won a bid to help Puerto Rico rebuild it's electricity grid! They will be paid $300 million to the job! They were are connected to a major donor of Trump's! Nepotism at it finest?

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Well, if that ain't funny how that worked out? (Original Post) imanamerican63 Oct 2017 OP
I think shit like that used to be illegal world wide wally Oct 2017 #1
Nothing to see here liberal N proud Oct 2017 #2
also the two person company are personal buds with one Sec Interior Zinke lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #3
Uh-oh, PR is doomed if this goes thru... a two-man company? Please. This corruption stinks. brush Oct 2017 #4
When they get power, the GOP just backs up their trucks to the US treasury. Irish_Dem Oct 2017 #5

lapfog_1

(29,198 posts)
3. also the two person company are personal buds with one Sec Interior Zinke
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 11:01 AM
Oct 2017

and Zinke's son used to work there.

brush

(53,759 posts)
4. Uh-oh, PR is doomed if this goes thru... a two-man company? Please. This corruption stinks.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 11:14 AM
Oct 2017

A year from now PR will still be without power but some repug pockets will be full.

We should be on the alert for kickbacks involving some of that $300m.

Irish_Dem

(46,784 posts)
5. When they get power, the GOP just backs up their trucks to the US treasury.
Tue Oct 24, 2017, 11:36 AM
Oct 2017

They drain the piggy bank, then Dems come to power and fill it up again. Cycle continues.

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