Barbara Boxer’s Halliburton Connection
If only we had been blogging in 2001, perhaps we would have found Senator Barbara Boxer’s* 2001 Senate Financial Disclosure Report before this week. From page 16/55:
Yes, our lefty Senator owned $15,000 - $50,000 of stock in Dick Cheney’s Halliburton (he left in August 2000; this report is for that full year). Shhh — don’t tell Michael Moore!
She also owned other enemies of the left: radio giant Clear Channel, union foe Wal-Mart, drug company Pfizer, HCA Healthcare (founded by Bill Frist’s father and brother), and bankruptcy-inducing credit-card issuer MBNA. She reported many other holdings in a portfolio that can only be described as blue chip.
The site BuyBlue.com, which encourages lefties to purchase only from companies supporting Democrats and left-leaning organizations, doesn’t like some of these choices. Clear Channel scored a 30% on their scale, Wal Mart 22%, and MBNA 27%.
The above report is for 2000 transactions. The next year’s report shows she sold the Halliburton stock some time in 2001. She seems to have put her assets in a blind trust after that — probably to avoid people nosing around her stock holdings. That trust has a value in the $1m - $5m range.
We’re actually happy to see that when it comes to her own personal finances, Boxer invests rationally. If only she’d be rational about partial privatization of social security as well!
This is old, so we won’t belabor it. But it cracks us up.
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* D-Marin County
Update: Mudville Gazette reports that Michael Moore owned Halliburton too! Hah!
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From Independent Sources: Yes, our lefty Senator owned $15,000 - $50,000 of stock in Dick Cheney’s Halliburton (he left in August 2000; this report is for that full year). Shhh — don’t tell Michael Moore! She also owned other enemies of the left: radio giant Clear
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March 28th, 2007 at 4:41 am
, because there is a buck to be made. The Dems do too, just ask Teresa Heinz-Kerry about her corporation. The Heinz Corporation reportably gave loads of money to the GOP, in 2004. Then, ask Barbara Boxer about her stock in Halliburton. And whatever you do, be sure to ask Nancy Pelosi about her ties to Del Monte. Her relationship to that corporation may provide an answer as to why one U.S. territory will be exempt from the new federal minimum wage