Group examines Cheney's role in Bajagua pact

[sabra]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060331-9999-1m31bajagua.html

Group examines Cheney's role in Bajagua pact

Vice President Dick Cheney's office intervened to help break a stalemate over whether to issue a no-bid contract to a San Diego company that wanted to build a border sewage treatment project, according to a watchdog group report released yesterday.

The report by the Washington, D.C.-based Project on Government Oversight (POGO) said that until President Bush and Cheney were elected, the Department of Justice had opposed awarding the sole-source contract to Bajagua Project LLC.

Also opposed was the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission, which is under the State Department, and is now working out final details of that contract.

But the Justice Department and the commission reversed their positions after a meeting was held at the direction of Cheney's office, according to an e-mail to POGO from Robert Ortega, a former acting commission director. Nick Schwellenbach, the report's author, said that meeting was held in 2003.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported in February that Bajagua officials met twice with Cheney. At the time, the vice president's office declined comment, saying it “does not issue government contracts.” Bajagua investors and their family members gave $10,000 to the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2003.

[maddezmom]

1. Feb article...The Dukestir loved this project, too!

For years, San Diego's entire congressional delegation has supported the project. In particular, Reps. Bob Filner and Duncan Hunter and former Reps. Randy “Duke” Cunningham and Brian Bilbray have lauded it as the best solution to the decades-old sewage problem.

Filner, one of the company's more outspoken proponents, accuses critics of trying to sabotage a sewage solution without offering specific alternatives.

“We should be celebrating a 10-year effort that's finally going to deal with an issue, and these guys are still harping on it,” said Filner, who believes the criticism is politically motivated.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060226/news_1n26bajagua.html

[sabra]

2. why am I not surprised :-)

[donkeyotay]

3. Can anyone spot the pattern of corruption?

Bidness needs done.
Give money to the Republican crime family.
Same said gives you taxpayer's money. Buckets of it.
Bidness gets done.

Rinse and repeat.

[leesa]

4. San Diego is so corrupt. I am impressed with the Union-Trib ferreting

out all this trash lately though. They must be pissing off some powerful people. Can't wait till they get my filthy Congresscreep Duncan "Two Fruits" Hunter behind bars.