By Suzanne Eovaldi, staff writer
”That thing was greased,” as they say in Chicago, referring to a political phenomenon known as “being handled before table.” Well, bloggers are asking, Was it? Word now coming out reveals just two days after Secretary of State Brian Kemp gave Barack Obama the green light to appear on Georgia election ballots,, the Department of Energy awarded Kemp’s state an eye popping $8.3 billion loan guarantee to begin construction on two nuclear plants. In the face of “a shocking dissent by Nuclear Regulatory Commission CHAIRMAN Director Gregory B. Jazcko,” , four other commissioners approved awarding Southern Energy the first nuclear construction licenses since 1978, just one year before the tragedy of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster put a hold on new U.S. nuclear plant construction. No new licenses have been approved until this huge Vogtle project got its go ahead to build two new reactors near Augusta.
“Jazcko said that the approved designs did not take the lessons of Fukushima into account. I cannot support issuing this license as if Fukushima never happened,” he told other NRC members before their shocking vote to approve this estimated $14 billion project. Friends of the Earth’s climate and energy project Director Damon Moglen is vowing to challenge the validity of the newly approved license in court. “The license may be granted, but these reactors are far from a done deal,” he said. Applications for 16 other plants looking to build 25 more reactors are on file with the NRC according to CNN Money reporter Steve Hargreaves , who added, “there are two applications submitted for brand new nuclear plants-one in Levy County, FL, and another outside Gaffney, S.C.”
While other viable nuclear construction projects await approval, the Georgia project got the green light in spite of the NRC director’s vehement objection as well as “12 sizeable construction change order requests (and) long-running site-specific design and fabrication problems (which) have confounded Westinghouse and its lead contractor for more than two years.”
So on February 7, 2012, Georgia Secretary of State Kemp stated “after careful consideration of Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi’s initial decision and all record evidence based on the criteria set forth in this process, I find that the Respondent, President Barack Obama, meets the State of Georgia’s eligibility requirements.” And a scant two days later, Obama’s DOE finds the money to award Kemp’s state a whopping $8.3 billion loan guarantee for a $14 billion nuclear project and license approvals not done in the industry in over 30 years!
One blogger said after the Malihi story, “This crap needs to end–NOW!!!” Another blogger who tipped me off about the Malihi-Nuclear decision connection mused, “The fix was in long before this challenge was ever submitted.”
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Note: The Vogtle nuclear site is located near Waynesboro, GA, according to Wikipedia
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It's Wikipedia, not Wikileaks, in my reporter's note at the end/ SE
I read this before the decision form a posting on this very site.
Suzanne,
It's hard for me to believe that ANYBODY could be stupid/gullible enough to think they can depend on Obama to fulfill a bribery obligation like this. Also, lawsuits alone would delay the plants being built for years, maybe decades!
Maybe the key is the loan guarantees. Whether the plants get built in the final outcome or not, 8 billion creates a lot of employment and pays off a lot of political debts and favors. I just hope Kemp got the bribe down on tape. He may need it!
You are right the plants will never be built. But the $8,300,000,000 will be spread around in GA to line the pockets of government politicians, lawyers and environmentalists. A lot of our elected officials will soon become millionaires over night. Our whole political system is being corrupted and we the people are suffering for it. I sure wish that tar and feathering was still in practice. their are a few politicians that deserve it.
Just another exxample of normal crooked Chacago politics. Just a
passing thought-who put this member of the black robed taliban on
the bench? 13 knots anyone?
well put-I totally agree-I am disgusted because I grew up in WarnerRobins, Georgia and our state was always sensible and on the upper curve of high tech saavy-however this here is COMMUNISM and unfair to the whole nation-surely this Kemp guy did the wrong thing-I just hope Obama can be directly linked -and thank you for your Viet Nam service
While looking over Malihi's decision, I decided to look into who he cited in the footnotes and if you go to page 6, the footnotes have a name listed as Jill Pryor.
Now, if you pull up Jill Pryor's "Note" written for the Yale Law Journal titled:
"The Natural-Born Citizen Clause and Presidential Eligibility: An Approach for Resolving Two Hundred Years of Uncertainty" 1988 http://yalelawjournal.org/images/pdfs/pryor_note….
You only need to read the first line, to see she has NO CLUE, what she is talking about, which is probably why Obama WANTS her!
This is in the first line of her "NOTE":
United States Constitution, article II
"Despite its. apparent simplicity, the natural-born citizen clause of the Constitution" has never been,completely understood. It is well settled that "native-born" citizens, those born in the United States, qualify as natural born."
I would guess that Obama probably found her article/note through this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/us/politics/28m… that was questioning McCain's eligibility back in 2008. Now you know for a fact that Obama probably read this article, because he was involved in the McCain eligibility resolution, plus he had to be following it for his own eligibility reasons.
At the bottom of the NYT article, it talks about Jill Pryor and her NOTE that she wrote 20 years earlier. Obama more than likely looked at it to see what her views were on the issue and after seeing that her allegations fit his story, he put her on his list as people to stack the courts with! Now, remember…he may have heard of her in 2008 from the McCain article, but these GA Court vacancies have been open since August 2010, as stated in this article (Good reading everyone asked has "NO COMMENT") http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/s… DATED JAN. 5, 2012
JUST A FEW STANDOUT QUOTES FROM THAT ARTICLE:
"it appears the White House has landed on Atlanta litigator Jill A. Pryor as its new choice for Georgia's vacant seat on a federal appeals court."
"Pryor received her undergraduate degree from the College of William & Mary before going to Yale Law School, where she was senior editor on the Yale Law Journal. A paper she wrote there on an obscure topic—the meaning of the constitutional provision that only a "natural-born citizen" can become president—received some attention during the 2008 campaign, when questions surfaced about whether Republican nominee John McCain, born on a military installation in the Panama Canal Zone, was ineligible for the office."
"According to public campaign records, Pryor contributed $4,500 to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and last year put $2,500 toward his re-election efforts. She also has contributed in recent years to other Democratic senatorial and congressional candidates and the American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America."
CONT.
"Former 11th Circuit Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr., whose resignation opened the available appellate seat, said earlier this month that in December the Department of Justice had contacted him about Pryor and Cohen as possible nominees for his former seat. Another member of Georgia's legal community, who asked not to be named, told the Daily Report on Wednesday that Cohen was being vetted late last year for the 11th Circuit post by FBI agents and the U.S. Justice Department."
"Sources familiar with the process have told the Daily Report that the Obama administration has chosen to have judicial candidates vetted by the FBI and the DOJ before submitting the name of the prospective nominee to be rated by the ABA. That process suggests that the White House considered Cohen for the 11th Circuit but then decided to tap him for the district court instead. The White House's apparent shift took place around the time U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave a Dec. 13 speech in Austin, Texas, according to people familiar with the nomination process. In that speech, Holder—quoting Democratic U.S. Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta—said that voting rights are under attack across the country."
What is truly incredible is the fact Judge Malihi literally IGNORED precedent set by the Supreme Court. No Judge in his right mind would do such a thing. Nothing provides more persuasive evidence of the stench surrounding the Judge's decision than that incredible break with 2 centuries of American jurisprudence. An Administrative Court Judge in Georgia agrees with an appellate court in Indiana in overruling the United States Supreme Court! It just ain't done.
‘Guest’ (second comment) is correct. On January 29, commenting on Doug Book’s article “Obama attorney knows eligibility hearing was disaster for the president,” ‘Max Maximus’ (January 30, 2012 at 6:57 am) said:
Just heard on the news this morning that of all states, guess which state has now risen to the top of consideration for not one, but two new nuclear power plant facilities to be built? You guessed it, Georgia…
Should be interesting to watch how this plays out over the next month or so. LOTS of backroom negotiations on the line here now with BILLIONS of dollars in construction jobs, federal revenue, state tax revenues and more at stake.
My guess is, this entire thing quietly goes away and Brian Williams will report “Nothing to see here yet again folks…just move along…just keep moving…”