Emails Show Energy Dept. Asked Solyndra to Keep Layoffs Quiet Until After 2010 Elections
**Written by Doug Powers

It’s a special Tuesday edition of a Friday night email dump, and it comes near mid-week because Democrats don’t control the House committee in question.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu is scheduled to appear before a Solyndra inquiry on Thursday, so I’m sure he’ll be asked about this:
The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show.
Solyndra, the now-shuttered California company, had been a poster child of President Obama’s initiative to invest in clean energies and received the administration’s first energy loan of $535 million. But a year ago, in October 2010, the solar panel manufacturer was quickly running out of money and had warned the Energy Department it would need emergency cash to avoid having to shut down.
The new e-mails about the layoff announcement were released Tuesday morning as part of a House Energy and Commerce committee memo…
As you read content of one of the emails, keep in mind that the 2010 election was on November 2nd:
“DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million) but have not committed to December yet,” a Solyndra investor adviser wrote Oct. 30. “They did push very hard for us to hold our announcement of the consolidation to employees and vendors to Nov. 3rd – oddly they didn’t give a reason for that date.”
This particular “investor adviser” posessed the kind of lack of inquisitiveness that probably contributed to the excitement level in the VP’s office.
As instructed, Solyndra announced the layoffs and a factory shutdown just after the elections were over. In spite of that, the DoE continued to give Solyndra installments of their taxpayer backed loan.
We all know how the 2010 elections turned out, so not disclosing the layoffs to the public until after the election didn’t exactly save Nancy Pelosi’s gavel.
Update: Rahm Emanuel still doesn’t remember anything about Solyndra… whatever that was.
Update II: Steven Chu tells NPR that politics didn’t play a part in the decision making process regarding Solyndra. Hahahahaha! Sorry…
**Written by Doug Powers
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Another example of Chicago politics at work, even to keep their own in line. This is a combination of a bribe – “DOE continues to be cooperative and have indicated that they will fund the November draw on our loan (app. $40 million)”- coupled with a threat- “but have not committed to December yet,”
They need to be in jail.
“Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!!!!!!!”
In a sane world, I know that doesn’t apply much to the dc bunch, bho and team would be in prison! The amount of money bho and foto’s have ‘put away’ so it can’t be found staggers the mind! Taxpayers and borrowed money from china just keeps on a coming and coming to foto’s!
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i thought the whole idea of this green energy was not political, turns out it is all politics.
I can’t wait for Barry to leave Hawaii.
From what bho said, I didn’t know Hawaii was in asia, did you? I bet it has been a zoo with all the elite there?
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Dems: Reason has nothing to do with it, never has!
On November 15th, 2011 at 1:46 pm, letget said:
On November 15th, 2011 at 1:43 pm, Hangfire said:
From what bho said, I didn’t know Hawaii was in asia, did you? I bet it has been a zoo with all the elite there?
Wow…and these are the e-mails they are showing us? What aren’t they showing? Yikes!
Lying, cheating and stealing makes for poor leadership and problem solving abilities. bho’s vision for spreading the wealth around has nothing to do with helping the less fortunate and more to do with purchasing a 2nd term.
Of course it wont matter as we know the DOJ will do nothing to prosecute the corruption.
Popcorn ordered for Thursday.
Im just waiting for someone in the admnistration to come out and say that they were forced to give the loans by the evil Republicans in Congress (it seems to be the excuse for everything lately).
As soon as he leaves, everyone in the state will have to turn on their fans to disperse the smell of sulphur.
For $40 million dollars I too will not layoff anyone until after the next election. Since I don’t employ anyone, I think another $40 million in stimulus would also be in order.
He scheduled another traffic jam for this morning so he can get to the airport.
See, jobs created or saved! It works! I will apply for a consultant fee of, oh, say just 1/4 of what you get. I would be good with that. “Nice house ya got here. It’d be a shame if …. “
Here’s the difference between conservatives, and progressives:
Conservatives call this corruption.
Progressives call this strategy, or, managing the message.
It can only lead to new, more probative questioning, such as;
“Who were the Democrat Party candidates who supported the Solyndra loans, and did they have campaign contributors in common with the White House. Would their re-election have been compromised if this information got out before the 2010 elections?”
This is an opportunity for the Democrats. Another opportunity to stonewall!
Let’s not forget: one man’s truth, is another man’s coverup.
Think most people will hear about this? Most likely the only people who will hear and be upset are the same people who are already upset about the Obama administration’s corruption.
It’s so discouraging. Thanks to the handy-dandy MSM screen, nothing blows up in their faces. This administration has more lives than a whole extended family of cats. If not even Fast and Furious and Solyndra (plus all the other scandals, too many to name) can cause America to cry out for the end of this admin, nothing will. How can Watergate be more serious than all this administration has done????
AmericanGirl30,
You mean like this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B00061N0J6/ref=dp_image_text_0/179-1643455-0915900?ie=UTF8&n=284507&s=kitchen
Past the warranty period but they keep reaching for it.
FIFY Mr. Chu
That’s what they call a layoff now?
So did Moochele leave with him or did she fly on her own?
I remember when $500 was the break between misdemeanor and felony, then it became $2,000. Where is it now? $500 million? more?
This guy will be hard to nail. He has lots of experience with whitewash (from painting roofs white to “prevent climate change”).
They spent $500,000 on determining politically correct terminology. Also up for consideration was:
‘Post-occupational contingency assessments and applications.”
I understand. Why use simple, easy to comprehend language, when one can tap into the vast resource, known as the “taxpayer” , to come up with elite-sounding terminology, and get paid embarrassing sums of money to do so… it’s the Progressive way, doncha know?
She DID fly on Air Farce TehWON with Barry, but she and the kids are flying back separately.
Barry is on his way to Australia and his homeland Indonesia, to further bad-mouth Netanyahu and push for green programs.
Came out with him, but she’s going home to DC, he’s going to Australia, then home to Indonesia. Then he heads back to DC.
Thanks for the two planes taxpayers. Suckers.
‘My favourite meal is steak and arugula salad’ says healthy eating campaigner Michelle Obama
Hasn’t she seen the price of arugula since her husband became President?
Of course they were just trying to stave off a “man-caused profit loss”.
Hangfire said:
Yeah heard about that. Class act all the way huh? And how does ‘he’ know Sarcozy wasn’t egging him on.., feeling him out?
And no, I do -not- believe Ben and the pResident talk daily. Not even close.
I like it. Very succinct. Man-caused profit loss. It has a certain ring to it.
The kids were on this trip? Were they listed as ‘senior staff’ for this vacation?
BTW, have you seen the article where mo had gifts made to give to leaders spouses that said ‘Made Exclusively for Michelle Obama’? Wonder how much this set the taxpayers back?
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/14/just-when-the-white-house-did-something-right/
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Oh I beleive that Obama talks every day to Ben, but I highly doubt that Ben listens (or even is in the room while the speaker phone is enganged).
She used her own broom.
Ba dump bump
Obviously she hasn’t as I caught this quote in that article:
Truesoldier,
I’m sure someone in the pResident’s staff talks to Ben [periodically] but when BN visited, it was as if they’d never spoke before?
Ahem, on Man-Caused $ Incinerators.., I can’t recall evah seeing even a research intensive Bio-Tech exhibit that kind of a Burn Rate! Never. I don’t think AMGEN burned thru cash like that?
We’ll need to see full Forensic Accounting of this. It didn’t all go to payroll and vendors I’m certain. Numeric impossibility.
Well……it beats what Barry gave to Queen Elizabeth II.
Why do I have a feeling that if they look at the books they will find things like “theraputic swimmingpools” and “morale weekends”….
s/ Rimshot
From what I have heard the Queen is actually pleased with the gift. She listens to the speeches anytime she is having trouble sleeping…
“By special appointment to her Royal Highness, the Queen“
Please tell me she didn’t really say that!!!
Barry Ozero: We need someone to make an exploratory mission to the sun and bring back some energy!
Axlegrease: Harumph!
Daley: Harumph!
Biden: Where’s my Twinkie? You ate my Twinkie?
Barry Ozero: Who should we send?
Jarret: Ahhhhh… Chu.
Barry Ozero: Gesundheit.
Biden: There it is. I sat on it.
Sorry happy, she did indeed say that!
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mrs-obama-let-them-eat-steak-and-arugula
I live in a very small town and there is, believe it or not, a grocery store here, a fairly big one! Along with five or six get-n-go that have veggies in the stores.
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Of course Sparky could never get knighted by the queen…the secret service has proved already that they do not trust the Brits to have weapons pointed in the direction of the First Family.
NBC News will lead with this in 3,2,1…..
(crickets chirping)
For that matter go into any SuperWal-mart and surprise surprise there are veggies in the grocery aisles.
Of that I’ve no doubt. Still, my assessment is more sinister. Yeah, I’m saying the money came in the front door and went out the back.
We’ve been so focused ( myself included! ) on Cost Per Green Job Saved or Created the potential those $’s never made it that far, just now a real consideration.
Gag. This couple get worse every day! They are both unbelievably dumb and don’t know a thing about the world outside their little privileged circle. They are the worst kind to be leading a diverse nation! Please God, let us survive for another year and then get them gone!!
I would be surprised if the money didn’t end up in the pockets of select people within the company and the administration. My guess is that the books will show that they payed an outrageous fortune for the pools and weekend getaways.
Truesoldier,
Oh… now that makes sense! I once had a friend that paid $60 for an airline-sized bottle of ‘champagne’?
This was a secret war chest. Siphoned off for 2012. May still be recoverable! It’s why we’re getting the Great Stonewall.
Well, now we know one story that won’t be covered on the MSM evening news reports.
(Oh, perhaps a 10 second throwaway mention just before the final “lost puppy” wrap-up story).
If they need more vegetables just stop by Congress on the way home.
yes, but if they stop by Bawney Fwank’s office all they will get is fruits….
Of course, she will never speak of the reasons “underserved communities” lack grocery stores.
7-Eleven, Circle-K, and FastStop all sell groceries.
They’re just past the MadDog 20-20, Boones Farm, and Mickey’s Wide-Mouth aisle.
Therein lies the problem. See I never knew there were any aisles past that?
Remind me not to go looting with you.
I’d like to know what Moochie’s definition of “underserved” is. Not getting enough taxpayer largesse????
Hey, dudes, stay out of those junk food aisles, ‘kay?
Tuesday has always been an excellent day for Strawberry Hill. Wednesday, a little flat for my taste. Two weeks ago today was a vintage day. That with a pack a Twinkies.
And there’s more on this story over at National Review:
Unfortunately, this level of corruption isn’t “TRANSPARENT” to a whole lot of STUPID American people who will blindly vote for the Jackass-In-Chief again. Repeat Stupidity!!!
Strawberry Hill is great on waffles, OBTW.
Get your OWS Looter’s Kit! Get your OWS Looter’s Kit! With Jay-Z on the side. Great for plucking your re-distributed share of Extra-crispy Solyndra chips!
Hmm, yet another Solyndra thread (or Fast&Furious or LightSquared or whatever) with nary a peep from a troll.
It’s almost like this subject makes them uncomfortable or something.
She was in Waianae when she said it – which has a very high rate of unemployment. (Probably bulldozed the homeless off the beach first, but I digress.) And out that way in Ewa is the biggest farm company that grows vegetables – and they bring in workers from foreign countries to pick! She’s clueless…
Oh, and here are seven grocery stores out there.
Once again, understand that being a progressive, one has to ask for a definitions. In this case, Michelle was describing all those underserved communities in…Africa.
(Note: The Flotsom, er, FLOTUS, having seen all those kids in the poor African countries who had distended tummies, this was not much of a leap in opinion for her…”)
Along with the longtime favorites, Thunderbird and Colt 45.
Nutrition in a bottle.
_____Lying in bed, the pair shares a cigarette…
_____”C’mon, baby, don’t leave yet.” His demeanor is gentle yet conveys the aura of authority.
_____The glowing tip of the cigarette crackles as she takes a firm drag. She tips a lengthy ash into the tray, exhaling the smoke as if trying to fend off an inevitable storm. With a trembling hand, she passes the thin, smoldering cylinder back to him, saying, “But I’ve paperwork to file with the court. They want to take my baby away from me.”
_____”Just put it off for a bit. I promise I’ll help you if you’ll just stay with me a little while longer.”
_____”But I’ve got to do this now. I’m a total wreck. Gosh, I must look horrible.”
_____”Oh hush, sweetheart. You look like half a billion bucks.”
_____She didn’t seem to hear him. “I can’t eat. I can’t sleep.” She turned to look in his eyes. “Do you still love me? Will you keep me safe?”
_____”Of course I still love you, baby. I’m here for you.” He calmly puffs exquisite white rings from his lips like perfect, fabricated clouds guided along a jet stream.
_____”Really?” Though she’s still on edge, the lines that furrow her brow smoothen some. She leans over and hugs him tight.
_____”Yes, yes,” he says, nudging her away so he can stamp out the ciggy and set the ashtray on the nightstand. “Now come here, baby. I want to go another round.”
_____”Oh, you devil, you.”
Snopes TRUE http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/ge.asp
General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.
So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs. I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs.
If this doesn’t show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don’t know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.
You are wrong, Duck! We have leadership! Obama is leading all our best businesses to China! I get the feeling he knows something that we are only just starting to realize. This country is owned by China, and we need to just give in. I wonder how many investments in China that Obama has?
There is NO WAY that anyone can possibly think the U.S. is business friendly with what they have been doing to it. It is deliberate, and we all know that.
No energy production, oil drilling shut down, pipeline delayed until 2013.
Massive corporate taxes, the largest in the world.
Stringent regulations that are impossible to follow.
Complex tax system that requires tax experts to figure out.
Environmental terrorism.
Intimidation of those businesses that are republican supporters.
Leadership corruption.
A President that is AWOL, except when he travels around to bad-mouth America.
Unchecked illegal immigration and the mutil-billions they are costing us.
Massive debt and unemployment.
Gridlock in our Congress.
Rioting across the country, ENCOURAGED by our POTUS!
You don’t need “insider information” to know why GE is moving to China. Obama is GIVING OUR COUNTRY AWAY TO CHINA.
P.S. Why are we sending troops to Australia????
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Solyndra proves the old adage “Success has a thousand fathers–failure is an orphan!” true.
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And for all you fine spirits connoisseurs like Hangfire and Marshall Will–don’t forget to check out the other great beverages in the convenience stores. Like the ever popular and economically priced Night Train, Ripple, Sneaky Pete Muscatel, Sotol, and Pulque.
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You can give them the old Army test to see if they are the really good stuff. Put some in a shot glass and throw it up into the air. If it doesn’t come back down–it really is the good vintage!
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John Bibb
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