Cheney's hunting ranch has big ties to Halliburton (Anne Cox Armstrong)

[DemoTex]

Pioneer Tobin Armstrong’s ancestor, Texas Ranger John B. Armstrong, bought the beginnings of the Armstrong Ranch in 1882 with the $4,000 bounty he received for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. In 1944 Tobin’s older brother wed an heir of legendary King Ranch (see Fausto Yturria), linking two of the biggest ranches in Texas. The Armstrong Ranch has since gone global, with tracts in Australia and South America. In recent years, Tobin and his wife, Anne, have hosted many GOP dignitaries--including the first and second President Bush--on their 50,000-acre Armstrong Ranch in South Texas. “We go out when the dew is still on the grass, and then hunt until we shoot our limit,” Tobin said in 2000 of his ranch outings with Dick Cheney. “Then we pick a fine spot and have a wild game picnic lunch.” True conservatives might choke on their javelina steaks if they knew that Tobin Armstrong dunned the government for $11,336 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2002, according to the Environmental Working Group. Anne Armstrong served as: a close advisor to President Nixon; President Ford’s British Ambassador; and approved covert actions on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Reagan. A veteran of blue-chip corporate boards, Anne Armstrong was a Halliburton director when that corporation hired Cheney. She is Kay Bailey Hutchison’s best friend, having helped launch the senator’s career as Republican National Committee co-chair in 1971. George W. Bush appointed Anne Armstrong as a Texas A&M regent in 1997. She and her husband were part of Laura Bush’s delegation to the funeral of Queen Mother Elizabeth in 2002. As a Kenedy County Commissioner in 2001, Tobin Armstrong expressed serious reservations about a short-lived Bush administration plan to relocate a Navy bomb-testing site from Puerto Rico to the fragile sand dunes of a local beach. Daughter Katharine Armstrong--formerly Katherine Idsal--and ex-son-in-law Warren Idsal also are Pioneers. President Bush invited Tobin, Anne and Katharine Armstrong to a White House sleepover.
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ContributorsAndPayback...

The 50,000-acre Armstrong Ranch is owned by Anne Armstrong (her husband, Tobin,died last year), not by their daughter Katherine as reported on CNN and MSRNC. Anne Armstrong is the former Anne Cox, heiress to the Cox Communication dynasty in Atlanta. Anne Cox Armstrong and her sister Barbara Cox Anthony, who resides in Hawaii, are perennial top finishers in lists of the world's richest women (usually in the top five behind the Queen of England). Both sisters have vacation homes in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France. To meet their demanding travel schedules, Anne and Barbara (and their families) have a fleet of Gulfstrean V bizjets at their call.

This was a post of mine deep in another thread. I thought it important enough info to open a new thread.

Mac

[DainBramaged]

1. You bet it's important

Thanks for the update. There's snakes on them airplanes!

[bahrbearian]

2. This is just going to get better and better.

[ChiciB1]

4. Ya Think???

Better HOW??? Have you learned NOTHING?? There's no "Out, Out Damn Spot" with them. They just keep SCREWING Us, and NOTHING happens!!!

[bahrbearian]

6. Your are right, its just going to get worse and worse.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Heck the guy that Cheney shot

is the lawyer that covered up Funeral Gate for W.

These folks go way back.

[ewagner]

5. Thanks for reposting it

I find it to be very useful information....

Personally, I can't even imagine the circles of wealth and privilege these people travel in....and we're supposed to believe that they are "just one of us". :puke:

[DemoTex]

7. Circles of Wealth

Well said ewagner. That's what it is. And they, with GW Bu$h, are circling there wealth against us like the early pioneers circled their wagons in a defensive tactic. Let's keep this little jewel of info kicked to spread the word on the internecine qualities of this rapacious regime. Cheney's "accident" has uncovered another tenacle of this goddamned, nefarious monster.

Mac

:kick:

[SophieZ]

8. Can you verify that it's the same Ann as the Ann Cox of the media co?

My info is that the Ann of the media co. is former ambassador to Belgium under Carter. Ann Cox Chambers, at least 84 years old, last I knew was a resident of Atlanta.

[DemoTex]

9. You have a good point, and I am confused.

Ann Cox Chambers is indeed one of the sisters with access to the G-5 fleet (part of which is based at Atlanta's FTY airport). I know that for a fact. Barbara Cox Anthony lives in Hawaii. The Armstrongs are tied to the Coxes, but it might be by marriage. I know all this because a good friend is a G-5 pilot for Cox.

Mac

[Dees]

10. Good job!!....n/t