Living in Florida, it's not surprise to me that Jeb is just as corrupt as his brother. The privatization that has gone on in this state will be crippling for years to come. That's why I really wasn't surprised to read this from Yahoo News via Corrent:
NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet PresidentFurther down we get this:
Bush's promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane
season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from
its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to
documents obtained by The Associated Press.
If Jeb wasn't so popular (and I still don't know why), we'd be looking at a pile of these types of things. They are there.The drainage-canal pumps were custom-designed and built under a $26.6 million contract awarded after competitive bidding to Moving Water Industries Corp. of Deerfield Beach, Fla. It was founded in 1926 and supplies flood-control and irrigation pumps all over the world.
MWI is owned by J. David Eller and his sons. Eller was once a business partner of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a venture called Bush-El that marketed MWI pumps. And Eller has donated about $128,000 to politicians, the vast majority of it to the Republican Party, since 1996, according to the Center for
Responsive Politics.
Hopefully, Florida CFO Alex Sink will uncover it as she takes a look into privatized services.
