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during his leaf on he's a contributing writer at the nation's early last week
we had this story which went kind of viral where we actually talked a little
bit about this company heart interested and the connections between
bain and company
part into civic and of course the voting machines that they that date
manufacturer which have been
uh... of which have failed or not worth properly in the past and how this all
doesn't really sound that good but we talk about the connection between romney
and how boats will be counted
you emailed me because your latest that you have a new peace in the nation which
actually outlines
an even closer ties between mit romney and how both will be counted that what
that their
uh... what this company
heart entered
i was actually correct
by h i t capital
uh... that's the kind that we find that you discussed your case
uh...
uh... last week on your radio show
uh... too but there's an interesting
business relationship uh... with do ronnie family with the romney family
investment firm
are age i g capitalist one of about
on twenty pradhan equity firms
all that has a very special relationship
mit romney son tag romney attack bradley runs his own credibility for on-call
solo mere capital
and solar capital doesn't do what many privately firms dugan s analyzing by
companies
uh... actually what they do is specialized and forming partnerships
with other privately firms
uh... doing deals with them
helping their elite set of investors uh... cohen best and basically of jewish
air of their business
arm so there's a a connection there
if you want to scrutinize
uh... tags relationship of businesses and you know i i'm not
you know qualified speak on uh... the the the issues that the jury is on on
electronic voting machines
but i will say
uh... that
uh...
any voting machine any type of uh... uh...
part of art
process of of of voting should be avoided politics
and is are supposedly sent
that that large voting machine company with
a lot of voting machines in colorado and uh... estates
uh... has uh... applaud enclosed as this one
budget ship
on work with of one of the people running for office
yet you know what i was on a couple days after that people of iraq who goes on a
right wing radio show
and i was asked to comment about that peace and the the arguments that the
other post that the host of that show was making more wait a second david say
you have a conspiracy theory
that somehow
heart interstate naked is
uh... controlling the voting machines that the voting machines are controlled
by the local election officials and i said listen
are not making a conspiracy re a conspiracy theory in the sense that i
know exactly what is going on what i'm saying is
when you hear that their connections between one of the candidates
and the voting machines that broadly concerning
and on the right we seem to hear this just it's complete
uh... lack of any kind of acceptance that any link is there however you can
bet
for share this was barackobama being connected to these voting machines
this is all we would hear about on on fox news on rush limbaugh so on and so
forth they're making an interesting point because we don't know if that week
the extent and logistics to which this could actually play a role are we saying
tag romney's going to be high standing behind the machine adding boats per mit
romney no we're not saying that
but it's a business relationship that's very concerning and i think that's
really the point we're all trying to make a resident
schorr arm
and you know it kind of
raises other issues as well because uh... you know
than it is a great concede with the whole romney campaign
you know of mit romney says
that
you know he believes in free enterprise he wants to reduce the size of
government
all of you will get back
on the type of businesses owned
by tag romney's business partners i mean it's it's literally scores
of different
uh... pride in our prayers that are set up to collect
of millions at not billions in hyd taxpayer on subsidies or you know other
work with the government on government contracts a heart inner city is just one
of many
also you have been in a way this does
this election is that there's about a contest
of are different
interest groups
they're all looking to influence the government in their own
special way
and this is what happens in many different adjust industries we can talk
about voting machines but really
in your everything from weapons to food
uh... to health care are there many line bees and businesses
the reason that they're getting involved in this collection is to maintain does
the flow
of government contracts uh... is this the case
uh... heart intercity h_i_v_ cabral no i'm not saying that
all but look at the overall dynamic of this campaign
why are so many private reforms that owned businesses
that bill the government uh... uh... contributing of funding the server backs
informing business partnerships with the candidates sign um... you noted in the
store that i wrote recently are we look at how
h_i_v_ capital
that the same are
uh... uh... uh... that is involved
initially missions they also know and byron always firm that
uh... works for the the military another one of the tag romney's business
partners owns the scooter store
on this company that's been accused of medicare fraud because that they are the
ones that you have pcm late night
television uh... running commercials promising anyone whose uh... of medicare
age
in get a free spirit cannot have regardless of of medical needs
on so many of these companies are are are worried that the government will
crack down on and these lucrative contracts and that might be why
uh... they picked me cozied up so so closely with the candidates bread and
really what this gets a few getting beyond the implication of the potential
implications but this election the voting machines into a broader issue
that affects republicans and democrats which is
there's too much connection
between politicians their friends buddies and former politicians who are
now involved in managing or investing in companies that are doing any number of
things that are directly supported or at least income is derived from
how politicians vote right a lot of these companies
the reason they haven't is obviously the reason that we have a lobbying
is because these companies want
politicians to vote for to pass bills in certain ways that will give them more
revenue and that's really the bride concerning thing of of that the
structural problem
right and you know allot of these businesses aren't really cheap chic
in a free market they are
i'm getting a leg up but
and by better service as alone or costs or more
no more efficient manner
on the way that they are getting ahead
are simply by political connections they're the ones who are on simply
spending the most in politics they're the ones our pune india as they're the
ones who are supplying resources to the candidates
and in some cases like but case with tag romney mit romney sign they formed a
very tight multi-million-dollar relationship
with the family of the of of mail
brownies running for president and brownies stands to make
on over six ft are all about
tagline is business partners
stand makeover sixteen million dollars in management fee simply for having this
relationship with these president beepers
he's also pay
on incentive pay are based on the performance of the spines
uh... you can only imagine
when these candidates up
uh... when office whether it's uh... in the white house congress or or an
governors offices all across the country
ana uh... when they have these relationships with these big powerful
investors
uh...
days actually become almost lobbyists
fruit for their uh... benefactors
all right again that we're talking to respondent riveting writer through the
base in the article tag-team virani family recipe for crony capitalism is
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at the nation dot com thanks as always late
dave thanks larry
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