NP - Buying Political Influence

[Monica Belevan]

...And when The Soros Speaketh, the god in his marbleblue clay-world siteth 
still and keepeth his genitals uptucked behind his taile, as good forms 
would have it of him to do. And The Soros is pleased. ´´ It is good´´, he 
says.

Fiat flux.

--Monica


>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: NP - Buying Political Influence
>Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:28:26 -0500
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>Billionaire investor George Soros was quoted yesterday as saying that 
>Harken Energy Corp. purchased a Texas oil company run by George W. Bush in 
>1986 because ''we were buying political influence.'' Soros owned nearly a 
>third of Harken at the time the deal was made.
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>Soros, who runs a variety of investment funds and philanthropic 
>organizations, was offering a reason why Harken purchased Spectrum 7, a 
>failing oil company that was then run by Bush.
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>In an article posted on the Web site of The Nation magazine, David Corn, 
>the magazine's Washington editor, said he happened to run into Soros at a 
>party recently and asked Soros why Harken bought Bush's company.
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>''I didn't know him,'' Corn quoted Soros as saying. ''He was supposed to 
>bring in the Gulf connection. But it didn't come to anything. We were 
>buying political influence. That was it. He was not much of a 
>businessman.''
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