Reply #73: okay. I read the entire article. [View All]

[Fleshdancer]

how can anyone say Kerry was on the "right side"? After reading the whole thing, the only person that was on the "right side" was McCain.

I guess I can see how the completion of the big dig project may have been great for Kerry's constituents, but am I really suppose to believe that ending the practice of insurance fraud would have kept the project from completion???:

"But in 1999, the Transportation Department uncovered a financing scheme in which the project had overpaid $129.8 million to AIG for worker compensation and liability insurance that wasn't needed, then had allowed the insurer to keep the money in a trust and invest it in the market. The government alleged AIG kept about half of the profits it made from the investments, providing the other half to the project"

Now how in the HELL is this in the best interest of the taxpayer? How in the HELL is this in the best interest of Kerry's constituents???

But wait, there's more!

Sept. 2001 - AIG pays $540 to Kerry for traveling fees to VT.

Dec. 2001 - several AIG executives gave maximum $1,000 donations to Kerry's Senate campaign on the same day.

following Spring - AIG donated $10,000 to a new tax-exempt group Kerry formed, the Citizen Soldier Fund, to lay groundwork for his presidential campaign.

2002 - AIG gave two more donations of $10,000 each to the same group, making it one of the largest corporate donors to Kerry's group.

and finally - Two construction companies on the project — Modern Continental Group and Jay Cashman Construction — each donated $25,000.