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April 14, 2006
G.W. and The Carlyle Group
I picked up Amy Goodman's book "The Exception to the Rulers" and though it is decided left leaning the book has some interesting things to say about the state of our state. I found this very interesting analysis of OIL (Our Illustrious Leader) and The Carlyle Group.
Although Bush was paying his respects to a former payhmaster, not everyone at Carlyle was happy with the relationship. On April 23, 2003 Carlyle founder and managing director David M. Rubenstein spoke to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, some of whose members were pushing to divest from his company. Journalist Suzan Mazur obtained a tape of Rubenstein's remarks, which then aired on Democracy Now! after Mazur broke the story in Progressive Review.
"When we were putting our board together, somebody came to me and said, 'Look there is a guy who would like to be on the board. He's kind of down on his luck a bit. Needs a job. Needs some board positions. Could you put him on the board? Pay him a salary and he'll be a good board member and be a loyal vote for the management and so forth.'"Rubenstien continued, "We put him on the board and he spent three years. Came to all the meetings. Told a lot of jokes. Not that manay clean ones.....I kind of said to him after about three years, 'You know, I'm not sure this is really for you. Maybe you should do something else because I don't think you're adding that much value to the board. You don't know that much about the company.' He said, 'Well, I think I'm getting out fo this business anyhway and I don't really like it that much. So I'm probably going to resign from the board.' And I said, 'Thanks.' Didn't think I'd ever see him again.
"His name is George W. Bush. He became president of the United States. So, you know, if you said to me, 'Name twenty-five million people who would maybe be president of the United States,' he wouldn't have been in that category. So you never know."
Hmmmmmm.
Posted by Chip Spear at April 14, 2006 10:08 AM
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