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Clarence Thomas accepts millions of dollars in gifts from Republican donor
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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5557465" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>So what happens when a rich person gives a politician a lot of money? What kind of influence do they exert? If this is the same Indonesian billionaire I recall from 10 or so years ago, he got a lot for his money. Coal was a big issue back then, and there were two places in the world that had a particular kind of coal in large quantities that was much cleaner burning than the kind pulled out of West Virginia. One was in Indonesia, which this Indonesian billionaire controlled. And the other was in Utah, particularly in what is now the Grand Escalante National Monument which the Obama administration created and prohibited mining on. That in spite of howls from the Utah business community who said they didn't ask for it and didn't understand the need to create the monument in the first place. I remember it well. It made that coal in Indonesia that much more valuable. So next time you hear about a major politician taking large sums of money you can expect the donor will get something much more valuable in return.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5557465, member: 24302"] So what happens when a rich person gives a politician a lot of money? What kind of influence do they exert? If this is the same Indonesian billionaire I recall from 10 or so years ago, he got a lot for his money. Coal was a big issue back then, and there were two places in the world that had a particular kind of coal in large quantities that was much cleaner burning than the kind pulled out of West Virginia. One was in Indonesia, which this Indonesian billionaire controlled. And the other was in Utah, particularly in what is now the Grand Escalante National Monument which the Obama administration created and prohibited mining on. That in spite of howls from the Utah business community who said they didn't ask for it and didn't understand the need to create the monument in the first place. I remember it well. It made that coal in Indonesia that much more valuable. So next time you hear about a major politician taking large sums of money you can expect the donor will get something much more valuable in return. [/QUOTE]
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