[quote=harvey]Lol, is there a point in there somewhere?
Two dudes who are pals with one of Trump’s cabinet members were handed a $300M contract for a business in which they have no track record, qualifications, or resources. No bidding, no diligence, no scrutiny.
The owners will easily take home at least $30 million, whether they perform or not.
This is third-world level crony capitalism, plain and simple.[/quote]
The point is simple, looks like you really didn’t thoroughly read the article nor what I wrote. No prob. Simple sound-byte is that this ‘crony’ capitalism was actually done by the “New Progressive Party” president and current Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló and the current executive director of PREPA(Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority). Trump’s administration and Congress is currently putting the deal on review – calling Puerto Rico’s Governor and the current chairman of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico in to Washington for a “talk” after the deal was signed between the Whitefish representative and PREPA’s executive director – Ricardo Ramos.
This crony incident does not smell of Trump. The details are all in the article – from which my supportive quotes also came. Don’t worry, at some point in time, one of his cabinet may invoke ‘pay for play’ or demand some crony’ing up. I would rather keep things straight than attribute every problem to Trump – there are enough problems to go around – so maybe its time to ‘share the love’- to twist a common phrase.
As for Whitefish’s experience, they have most of their experience with very high voltage (approx 250,000 and up) line work using helicopters in mountainous areas. They don’t have much experience with large contracts though, particularly the size of this one – nor lower voltage city and small regional lines.
