Originally published February 6 2006
Reporters track the development of Bush's campaign contributions into federal policies
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Jim Tankersley and Joshua Boak of the Toledo Blade thoroughly examine the relationship of the Bush administration's policies to its top campaign contributors, and find that there are enough correlations to indicate special interests.
President Bush's corporate champions see the spoils of his administration in coal.
And credit-card payments, Afghan electric lines, Japanese bank transfers and fake crab.
Bush administration policies, grand and obscure, have financially benefited companies or lobbying clients tied to at least 200 of the president's largest campaign fund-raisers, a Toledo Blade investigation has found.
Bush's policies often followed specific requests from his 548 "Pioneers" and "Rangers," who each raised at least $100,000 or $200,000 for his 2004 re-election.
Heads of stock brokerages and other multinational firms, which, under a special tax incentive in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, are bringing hundreds of millions of dollars they earned or stored abroad back into the United States this year at reduced rates.
The same contractors won far less government work under President Bill Clinton.
With rare exception _ such as a California Pioneer recently implicated in a congressional bribery scandal _ the Bush supporters' benefits appear to come through legal channels of lobbying, rule-making, and legislation.
Steve Weisman, associate director for policy at the Campaign Finance Institute in Washington, said election law does not require candidates to reveal any details about their fund-raising networks.
Credit-card giant MBNA wanted to collect more of its customers' debts.
The seduction by plastic includes bonus points, "Love Me Tender" teddy bears, and occasionally personal bankruptcy.
Fish baron Frank Dulcich and his family-owned string of seafood processors, the Pacific Seafood Group, benefited from a federal grant and a change in fishing rules after hiring a lobbying firm with two Bush Pioneers.
For years, the fish baron and his family-owned string of seafood processors, the Pacific Seafood Group, fought a steady current of government fishing restrictions.
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