The subsidy-dependent green-tech industry has quite a robust revolving door relationship with this administration. Cathy Zoi, Mark Patterson, Oscar Ramirez, and others have spun through the door. Today, thanks to Solyndra, we get an interesting insight into how corrupting it is. From Politico:
Solyndra spokesman David Miller also did his share of glad-handing with the White House aides handling Obama’s trip.
“If you tire of the White House life and ever decide you want to move out with your best friends in [California] let me know,” Miller emailed to White House special assistant Johanna Maska the day after the visit. He added that “we could find you a great corporate gig very quickly.”
“If you tire of the White House life and ever decide you want to move out with your best friends in [California] let me know,” Miller emailed to White House special assistant Johanna Maska the day after the visit. He added that “we could find you a great corporate gig very quickly.”
Got that? Hand out subsidies, get offered a great corporate gig. Maska, to his credit (and benefit), didn’t take the offer.
I’ve said it before: you can’t increase government’s role in the economy, as Obama has, without increasing business-government coziness and revolving door action.
