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CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Rep. Perlmutter part owns ?green? bank he helped: Provision in bill would a?

By Glenn Reynolds

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Rep. Perlmutter part owns ‘green’ bank he helped: Provision in bill would aid family members, political donor. “Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado inserted a provision into the recently passed House climate change bill that would drum up business for ‘green’ banks, such as the one he has invested in and his family and a political donor helped found in San Francisco. . . . Mr. Perlmutter, a two-term Democrat, has two investments in the 3-year-old New Resource Bank, which calls itself the nation’s first green bank.”

Sounds like there’s plenty of “green” involved, all right.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 15, 2009 (boomark / email).