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September 26, 2011

Among Solyndra's Creditors: The California Democratic Party
— Ace

Just when you thought "This couldn't get any cronier.

Out of the hundreds of out-of-work employees, vendors, investors and other creditors in the bankruptcy of government-backed solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC, one name stands out: the California Democratic Party.
Why California Democrats would be creditor to a company that received more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans to build a solar-panel plant isnÂ’t clear. Even party officials say theyÂ’re not sure.
The California Democratic PartyÂ’s communications director, Tenoch Flores, said the organization was not owed Â“any funds in any formÂ” by the California-based company. He said he was unclear why the party would be listed as a creditor in SolyndraÂ’s bankruptcy filing.

Meanwhile (also taken from Verum Serum), the DoE did not disclose that it had been massively lobbied by Solyndra.

Under a policy first issued by the White House in 2009, federal agencies were required to disclose lobbying for stimulus funds. McBee Strategic Consulting, a lobby firm then under contract with Solyndra, said it had contacted the Energy Department in the first and third quarters of 2009 regarding the Recovery Act, according to records filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).
Yet a review by The Hill of the more than 40 lobbyist contact disclosure forms regarding the stimulus posted online by the Energy Department reveals no contact between the department and Solyndra's lobbyists.

Posted by: Ace at 09:01 AM | Comments (73)
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1
Party officials aren't sure?

Riiiiiiiight.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2011 09:03 AM (sqkOB)

2 Yeah, there's nothing going on here.

Posted by: dogfish at September 26, 2011 09:03 AM (N2yhW)

3 I thought this looked like money laundering to me.

Posted by: Vic at September 26, 2011 09:05 AM (M9Ie6)

4 We can't get any traction on Fast & Furious.

Why will this be any different?

Posted by: lu at September 26, 2011 09:05 AM (pLTLS)

5 I knew this was coming.

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at September 26, 2011 09:06 AM (ZDUD4)

6 I knew this was coming

Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at September 26, 2011 09:06 AM (ZDUD4)

7 O. yeaarrgh. Just played the worst commercial ever on Rush by that Truther Communist Ed (the d stands for dribbler) Asner for solar power credits.

Posted by: willnbill at September 26, 2011 09:07 AM (+ii6P)

And tonight's top story. A satillite comes crashing somewhere and you might die. Obama is energizing the base against the mean Republicans, and a cute puppy does something cute.

Posted by: The MSM ( your betters ) at September 26, 2011 09:09 AM (n2K+4)

9 Here, have my seat.

Posted by: Enron at September 26, 2011 09:20 AM (GQ8sn)

10
Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway stock is up 6% today.

Why? Because he announced a stock repurchase. It's like a dividend for shareholders but without the short-term capital gains tax obligation.

Business Insider calls Buffett on his hypocrisy.

Posted by: soothie at September 26, 2011 09:23 AM (sqkOB)

11 Don't worry, some troll will come along demanding to know what is illegal here. So, end of story. AH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 09:25 AM (AZGON)

12 Shocka.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 26, 2011 09:26 AM (UOM48)

13 So, doesn't that mean that the CA Democratic Party has been screwed by Obama since he changed the terms of the loans to repay his donors/investors ahead of the creditors?

Posted by: runningrn at September 26, 2011 09:26 AM (0fUOB)

14 SCCOAMF: Stuttering Corrupt Clusterf**k of a Miserable Failure.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at September 26, 2011 09:27 AM (kPT11)

15 Sorry, I must invoke my 5th amendment rights here.

Posted by: Solyndra Exec at September 26, 2011 09:28 AM (kPT11)

16 If he were a Republican, this would be devastating. I dream of a day when the left and democrats are held to the same standards of Republicans.

Posted by: Ben at September 26, 2011 09:29 AM (wuv1c)

17 So where's the crime here, ace?

Posted by: proud dum-dum at September 26, 2011 09:29 AM (Y+DPZ)

18 I suspect that Solyndra just took the vendor list from their accounting system and gave it to the bankruptcy court as the list of creditors. The vendor list is everyone (other than employees) that they have written checks to. This means that Solyndra was using federal money to make political contributions.

Posted by: Mike S at September 26, 2011 09:29 AM (/4imY)

19 Solar can't melt Icarus!

Posted by: Rosie O'Dough Hole at September 26, 2011 09:30 AM (0fUOB)

20 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Posted by: Darrell Issa at September 26, 2011 09:31 AM (EL+OC)

21
Remember JOHNNY OLSON from The Price Is Right?

Every time he'd recite the options in the 'brand new car!' the last thing he'd say was, "...and Californian emissions."

Posted by: soothiewing plover at September 26, 2011 09:31 AM (sqkOB)

22 Holy shit! So you're saying Haliburton even controls the California Democrat Party?

Posted by: mugiwara at September 26, 2011 09:31 AM (D5hxK)

23 "Now, Mr. Chairman, I have been waiting anxiously to hear what we have to show that there is wrongdoing here. And I am still waiting to see something that makes me be concerned that we have here some wrongdoing. And I don't want us to proceed just on suspicions or doubtful questions or misinterpretations of e-mails or finding e-mails where none exist. Now let's try and see what took place."

Posted by: Rep. John Dingell (D) at September 26, 2011 09:31 AM (0fUOB)

24
Obama is a racist cocksucker.

Â“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you canÂ’t stop marching. Even when theyÂ’re turning the hoses on you, you canÂ’t stop . . . WeÂ’re going to march on.Â”

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 09:34 AM (sqkOB)

25
by marching, Obama means voting...for him

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 09:34 AM (sqkOB)

26 Why its almost as if this whole thing is just a big slush fund to launder money for the democrat party. I know, I know and the sky is blue, but thats just because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. Nothing is amiss, just move along.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 26, 2011 09:35 AM (jiVmv)

27 23 "Now, Mr. Chairman, I have been waiting anxiously to hear what we have to show that there is wrongdoing here. And I am still waiting to see something that makes me be concerned that we have here some wrongdoing. And I don't want us to proceed just on suspicions or doubtful questions or misinterpretations of e-mails or finding e-mails where none exist. Now let's try and see what took place." Posted by: Rep. John Dingell (D) at September 26, 2011 01:31 PM

Dingell must have read dum-dum's posts yesterday

Posted by: kbdabear at September 26, 2011 09:35 AM (Y+DPZ)

Â“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you canÂ’t stop marching. Even when theyÂ’re turning the hoses on you, you canÂ’t stop . . . WeÂ’re going to march on.Â”

Holy cow! Did he say that? Funny that, but it was Democrats who were turning on the hoses on the black people. Democrats who formed the confederacy, pimped Jim Crow Laws and were pro-segregation. A prominent Democrat Senator was a Grand Kleagle in the KKK. Unbelievable.

Posted by: runningrn at September 26, 2011 09:36 AM (0fUOB)

29 Going after this administration on Solyndra/LightSquared/etc. when Gunwalker is out there -- purposefully arming the drug cartels, MS-13, Chicago gangmembers, Hezbollah -- is sort of like going after Al Capone for tax fraud. But hey, whatever gets 'em behind bars.

Posted by: Kathy from Kansas at September 26, 2011 09:37 AM (2AfqM)

30 The DNC provided Solyndra with Obama 2012 bumper stickers ... for a fee, of course.

Posted by: No Whining at September 26, 2011 09:38 AM (UzjcV)

31 Â“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you canÂ’t stop marching. Even when theyÂ’re turning the hoses on you, you canÂ’t stop . . . WeÂ’re going to march on.Â”

History is what I say it is, your email has been noted.

Posted by: Barack "Louis XVI" Obama at September 26, 2011 09:39 AM (136wp)

32
O/T..... kinda....

But Foxnews has a story up that not only did the BATF allow straw purchasers to buy guns and go across the border.... but that the BATF itself bought guns and then resold them to the cartels.

From the article:

According to documents obtained by Fox News, Agent John Dodson was ordered to buy six semi-automatic Draco pistols -- two of those were purchased at the Lone Wolf gun store in Peoria, Ariz. An unusual sale, Dodson was sent to the store with a letter of approval from David Voth, an ATF group supervisor.

Dodson then sold the weapons to known illegal buyers, while fellow agents watched from their cars nearby.

This was not a "buy-bust" or a sting operation, where police sell to a buyer and then arrest them immediately afterward. In this case, agents were "ordered" to let the sale go through and follow the weapons to a stash house.

According to sources directly involved in the case, Dodson felt strongly that the weapons should not be abandoned and the stash house should remain under 24-hour surveillance. However, Voth disagreed and ordered the surveillance team to return to the office. Dodson refused, and for six days in the desert heat kept the house under watch, defying direct orders from Voth.

A week later, a second vehicle showed up to transfer the weapons. Dodson called for an interdiction team to move in, make the arrest and seize the weapons. Voth refused and the guns disappeared with no surveillance.

Posted by: Ranting Clowns Union Local 412 at September 26, 2011 09:40 AM (C8hzL)

33 You mean it isn't billionaire Jew janitors who are the creditors?

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 09:40 AM (AZGON)

34 Â“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you canÂ’t stop marching. Even when theyÂ’re turning the hoses on you, you canÂ’t stop . . . WeÂ’re going to march on.Â”

The hell?? Is this part of the CBC speech. Unfuckingreal.

Sucker of cock indeed.

Posted by: lu at September 26, 2011 09:40 AM (pLTLS)

35 This isn't green technology gone bad, it is democrat party money laundering found out. They used taxpayer dollars through shell companies to fund their campaign coffers, from the president down to the California assemblyman.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 26, 2011 09:40 AM (ItDg4)

36 uggg.... sock off from 32

Posted by: fixerupper at September 26, 2011 09:41 AM (C8hzL)

37 This means that Solyndra was using federal money to make political contributions. Posted by: Mike S at September 26, 2011 01:29 PM (/4imY) Yeah, but it's only a scandal when Republicans do stuff. When Democrats do it, it's community organizing. Oh, and you're a racist.

Posted by: joncelli at September 26, 2011 09:41 AM (RD7QR)

38 Contribute to Barky and win a dinner with he and Joey Choo-Choo!

Contribute to Mittens and win a day on the campaign trail with him (from an ad that appeared on this page)!

These fools sure think that they're some hot goods ...

Posted by: No Whining at September 26, 2011 09:42 AM (UzjcV)

39 How many Joo-janitors work at Solyndra. So quite bitching and STFU!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2011 09:42 AM (UlUS4)

40 By the off-topic way, did you notice Dick Soetero said that if he was a Joo-baiter class warrior, he would "wear that with a badge of honor?" One wears stuff AS a badge of honor, not WITH. I guess Austrian really is Dick's first language. Someday he may decide to learn English.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 09:42 AM (AZGON)

41 Capitalist or environmentalist, it doesn't matter. What has been done to Africa and the African people is an injustice on a unfathomable scale. Thomas Sankara. Google him. Learn what he was doing for his people and why he had to be killed. His story represents the tragedy of Africa.

Posted by: MENSA Frauds For Herman Cain at September 26, 2011 09:43 AM (uRPoU)

42 Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 01:42 PM (AZGON) Well, it is much better in the original Austrian. By the way, those Austrians really loved to march, didn't they?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (UlUS4)

43 What is so illegal here?

Posted by: Some Troll at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (Vy1lZ)

44
more from Obama's racist rabble-rousing on Saturday:

"I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. WeÂ’ve got work to do, CBC."

(But first, vacation.)

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (sqkOB)

45 Gotta go folks. bbl

Posted by: Vic at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (M9Ie6)

But Foxnews has a story up that not only did the BATF allow straw purchasers to buy guns and go across the border.... but that the BATF itself bought guns and then resold them to the cartels.

So I am, in fact, the only one that BATF did not arm. Damn it!

Posted by: alexthechick at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (VtjlW)

47 Posted by: Ranting Clowns Union Local 412 at September 26, 2011 01:40 PM (C8hzL) And so once again the question arises: Why? To what end? Who benefitted? Who gave the orders? Where is the documentation?

Posted by: joncelli at September 26, 2011 09:44 AM (RD7QR)

48 Â“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you canÂ’t stop marching. Even when theyÂ’re turning the hoses on you, you canÂ’t stop . . . WeÂ’re going to march on.Â”

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 01:34 PM (sqkOB)

I hope that's on tape. It will make a good ad against our Race Pimp in Chief

Posted by: robtr at September 26, 2011 09:45 AM (MtwBb)

49 Aaaaaand arrest warrants? Anyone? No? Nothing?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at September 26, 2011 09:45 AM (4df7R)

50 Â“If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew Â— as a janitor Â— makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that as a badge of honor.Â”

Barack Obama really said that too.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at September 26, 2011 09:45 AM (jiVmv)

51 43
Well, it is much better in the original Austrian. By the way, those Austrians really loved to march, didn't they?!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2011 01:44 PM (UlUS4)

Pogroms! Getcher pogroms! Can't tell the playas without a pogrom!

Posted by: No Whining at September 26, 2011 09:46 AM (UzjcV)

52 Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....Wha?.....How's Mitt doing in the polls?

Posted by: Darrell Issa at September 26, 2011 09:46 AM (EL+OC)

53 more from Obama's racist rabble-rousing on Saturday:

"I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. WeÂ’ve got work to do, CBC."

(But first, vacation.)

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 01:44 PM (sqkOB)

Am I the only one wondering why Obama assumes blacks wear their bedroom slippers all day? Was he implying that blacks spend their days lazing around in bed?

Posted by: mugiwara at September 26, 2011 09:46 AM (D5hxK)

54 Well, it is much better in the original Austrian. By the way, those Austrians really loved to march, didn't they?! Dick can't even get his heritage straight. I mean, his spiritual ancestor went in for a beer hall putsch and all Dick can manage is a beer summit. With non-alcoholic beer to boot.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 09:47 AM (AZGON)

55
Well, it is much better in the original Austrian. By the way, those Austrians really loved to march, didn't they?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 26, 2011 01:44 PM (UlUS4)

Austria? Well then, g'day mate!

Posted by: Lloyd Obama at September 26, 2011 09:48 AM (Ng1pA)

56
Maxine Waters is confused by Obama's inspirational (heheh) speech.

"I'm not sure exactly who the president was talking to. [snip] I found that language a bit curious...[snip] And he would never say that to the gay and lesbian community...[snip]...he would never say to the Jewish community, 'Stop complaining about Israel.'

So, I don't know who he was talking to because we're certainly not complaining. We're working. We support him and we're protecting that base because we want people to be enthusiastic about him when that election rolls around."

Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 09:48 AM (sqkOB)

57 I wear that as a badge of honor. Listen to the tape... he said "with," not "as." The retard cannot speak elementary English.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at September 26, 2011 09:48 AM (AZGON)

58 58
Maxine Waters is confused by Obama's inspirational (heheh) speech.
Posted by: soothsayer at September 26, 2011 01:48 PM (sqkOB)

What does Cousin Pookie think about all this?

Posted by: No Whining at September 26, 2011 09:50 AM (UzjcV)

SCCOAMF: Stuttering Corrupt Clusterf**k of a Miserable Failure.

Posted by: Arms Merchant at September 26, 2011 01:27 PM (kPT11)

I don't know anymore. Pithy, yes, but I don't think that actually captures his ineptituded and the massive scale of corrpuption and incompetence.

(SCOAMF)²

(But there shouldn't be any math on this blog...)

Posted by: Warthog at September 26, 2011 09:51 AM (WDySP)

60 Even we can't clean up Obama's mess.

Posted by: the Industrial Association of Jewish Janitors, Local 42 at September 26, 2011 09:52 AM (AZGON)

61 Our SCOAMFplifiers go to 11.

Posted by: grognard at September 26, 2011 09:52 AM (NS2Mo)

Am I the only one wondering why Obama assumes blacks wear their bedroom slippers all day? Was he implying that blacks spend their days lazing around in bed?

My favorite part of that speech was when he said "I listen to some of y'all."

So which people is he listening to and who is he excluding in his group of supporters. That speech was more grating than normal because of his patronizing, pandering g-dropping, dumbing down for the black audience. Absolutely disgusting.

Posted by: runningrn at September 26, 2011 09:52 AM (0fUOB)

63 What does Cousin Pookie think about all this?

Posted by: No Whining at September 26, 2011 01:50 PM (UzjcV)

Forget that. What about Raj, Dwayne & Rerun?

Posted by: The Robot Devil at September 26, 2011 09:54 AM (136wp)

64 So by green they meant stealing a metric fuckton of green us currency.

Posted by: DaveA at September 26, 2011 09:58 AM (jWTOk)

Gaaa! You wingers make me sick. Mountain, meet mole hill. The Government's loan to Solan-whatever represented a GRAND total of .07% of the billions slated towards Green Energy infrastructure. Inside analysts predict 40% ...that's right...40% of these types of energy investment ventures will fail anyway. Cry me a river.

Posted by: Gerold Wilson-Stienwitz at September 26, 2011 09:59 AM (kODKX)

66 Sounds like crony socialism to me.

Posted by: BOB NW at September 26, 2011 10:03 AM (td+Bp)

67 Thumbs up to Glenn Beck. Imagine how many Solyndras there would be, had he not drummed out Van Jones?

Posted by: elliot m at September 26, 2011 10:28 AM (zPich)

68 59 What does Cousin Pookie think about all this?

Never mind that. What does Uncle Onyango think about all this? When he's sober, that is.

Posted by: Aunt Zeituni at September 26, 2011 10:54 AM (kPT11)

69 haha, yesterday i tried to connect that point about lobbying, and epa saying they hadn't gotten any paperwork from solyndra.

Posted by: willow at September 26, 2011 11:12 AM (h+qn8)

70 That's just the CA Dems' skim. They get a piece of everything here.

Posted by: PJ at September 26, 2011 11:13 AM (FlVA8)

71 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.