By MARC MCDONALD
The United Technologies Corporation, which made a $3 billion bid for Diebold on Sunday, is a GOP-friendly company, if its campaign contributions are anything to go by.
Watchdog group CorpWatch notes that in the 2002 election, 62 percent of United Technologies' $699,242 in campaign contributions went to the GOP. In the 2004 election cycle, United Technologies made $788,011 in campaign contributions, with 64 percent of that going to the GOP.
The maker of the Black Hawk helicopter, United Technologies is a major military contractor. In 2005, it received over $5 billion in military contracts.
Diebold is one of the biggest makers of voting machines. The company has been the focus of controversy in recent years.
In 2003, Diebold's then-chief executive, Walden O'Dell, sent out a fund-raising letter in which he said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to (President Bush) next year."
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Major GOP contributor and defense contractor, manufacturer of Blackhawk helicopters views voting machine company that is losing money as a strategic piece of its vertical integration plans.
ReplyDeleteYou never know when a customer might want a voting machine when they buy a Backhawk or other weapon system. Makes sense to me. Not!
Isn't United Technologies one of the companies that Carlyle Group is heavily invested in? I seem to remember George Bush in front of a United Tech banner addressing a large group just prior to the invasion of Iraq.
ReplyDeleteEither way, this is not good for voting rights in America.
Bastards... check out this fun piece from The Onion. http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks?utm_source=embedded_video
ReplyDeleteHi Anhoa, thanks for stopping by.
ReplyDeletere:
>>I seem to remember George Bush
>>in front of a United Tech banner
>>addressing a large group just
>>prior to the invasion of Iraq.
I recall there being a such a scene in Michael Moore's "F9/11."
Hi Chris, thanks for stopping by. That Onion piece was right on target. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI think the GOP will indeed steal the election this year. And McCain is such a whore, I believe he will continue to flip-flop to the point where he will have extreme radical right positions that even a BushBot Kool-Aid drinker could support. This time next year, Limbaugh and the rest of the Nazi/GOP propaganda apparatus will be denying that they were ever critical of McCain (and their cult-like followers will believe them).