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Skriven 2007-01-28 17:58:33 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 26582 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Presidential race
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Jeff Binkley -> Stan Hardegree wrote:
 EH>>> You haven't been paying attention. Kerry is running for
 EH>>> re-election into the Senate in 2008. He isn't running for
 EH>>> president.

 EH>>> Neither Pelosi or Dean will run for president.

 JB>>> That's too bad.

 SH>> I didn't think it was appropriate for Kerry to announce his political
 SH>> intentions from the Senate floor - or for the rest of those ditch
 SH>> carp to line up in praise of the dunce.  He should have called a
 SH>> press conference for that announcement.

 SH>> Also inappropriate was Mrs. Bill Clinton's 15 minute political speech
 SH>> when the Armed Services Committee was questioning Gen. Patreas.  Mrs.
 SH>> Clinton did not ask the general a single question in the apparent
 SH>> belief that she already knows everything - as usual.

 JB> The libs are in full throat now.  They've pulled Hanoi Jane off the
 JB> scrap heap.  They have no idea how this may backfire on them.

 JB> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
 JB> dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012701486_pf.html

But they likely won't be crowing about this any time soon:

Army contract for Feinstein's husband
Blum is a director of firm that will get up to $600 million
- David R. Baker, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 22, 2003


URS Corp., a San Francisco planning and engineering firm partially owned by
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband, landed an Army contract Monday
worth up to $600 million.

The award to help with troop mobilization, weapons systems training and
anti-terrorism efforts is the latest in a string of plum defense jobs snared by
URS. In February, the firm won an army engineering and logistics contract that
could bring in $3.1 billion during the next eight years.

Government contracting has come under increasing scrutiny by Congress and
citizen groups, with critics decrying the political connections of firms
winning lucrative jobs. Richard Blum, Feinstein's husband, serves on the
company's board of directors and controls about 24 percent of the firm's stock,

according to Hoover's Inc. research firm.

A Feinstein spokesman Monday declined to comment on the contract.

Blum and several URS representatives could not be reached for comment. A
Pentagon spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the contract.

Announced in a company press release Monday, the contract calls for URS Corp.'s
EG&G division and partner International Consultants Inc. to help with
operations planning, troop mobilization, weapons system training and anti-
terrorism assessment. The contract runs for five years.

"We are very pleased with this important win, which further expands our strong
relationship with the Army and demonstrates our ability to provide a full
spectrum of support services to ensure that our troops remain combat ready and
capable of quickly mobilizing to address threats around the world," said George
R. Melton, president of the EG&G division, in a press release.

URS boasts some 25,000 employees working in more than 20 countries. Although
the firm has a long history of government work, it has focused more on those
activities since acquiring EG&G from the Carlyle Group investment firm last
year for about $500 million.

EG&G works with the military, NASA, and several federal departments, according
to Hoover's. The company's areas of expertise range from designing
transportation infrastructure to training people to dismantle weapons of mass
destruction.

URS brought in more than $2.4 billion in revenue during 2002.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL



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