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The Blog for Wednesday, December 01, 2004

GOoPer Shysters

    Steve Bousquet exposes some GOoPer lawyer shenanighans:
    The [Broad & Cassellaw firm's] bill so far: $3.3-million and counting, more than the company that designed the system says it is owed....

    [T]he law firm also was paid a half-million dollars for work on other lawsuits involving congressional redistricting, a parental notification abortion law and a cost-of-living adjustment paid by the Legislature to urban school districts.
    "Byrd's taxpayer legal tab lives on". And where did these brilliant lawyers come from?
    If [David] Brown [who is chairman of the law firm of Broad and Cassel] had not volunteered for former President George Bush's re-election campaign in 1992, he probably would not have been introduced to the president's son Jeb. If Brown had not befriended Jeb Bush and helped him win election as governor in 1998, the lawyer probably would not have been appointed to the Florida Transportation Commission in 1999. Had Brown not been appointed to that nonpaying position, he probably wouldn't have been meeting privately with the governor in Tallahassee last spring, privy to the musings of an officeholder and power broker, when the subject of biotechnology arose.
    "Bush family friend takes lead on Scripps". No doubt these GOoPer lawyers - who are feeding at the public trough (the matters listed above are only the tip of the iceberg) - would claim they received their various appointments and contracts via "merit".

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