Bill White is hiding his interest in the Barnett Shale
Bill White was appointed to the BJ Services board of directors on Jan. 22, 2003 – just 83 days after he declared his candidacy for mayor of Houston. While White was mayor of Houston, he earned more than $2.6 million from BJ Services, which is currently under investigation by Congress for polluting the groundwater in North Texas. During the Democratic primary, White’s spokeswoman dismissed White’s connection to the Barnett Shale as “stock that Bill has in a retirement account,” despite the fact that one month earlier White exercised $121,600 in BJ Services stock options, that White received $682,964 in executive compensation from BJ Services in 2009 including $124,167 in cash, and that BJ Services brags about fracturing more than 2,000 wells in the Barnett Shale.
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Video: “Bill White’s Chicago Way”
October 21, 2010
When liberal trial lawyer Bill White ran for Houston mayor in 2003, he was asked, “Which city in the world could best serve as a role model for a future Houston?”
Bill White answer? “Chicago.” [1]
The video “Bill White’s Chicago Way” is available at www.YouTube.com:
“Liberal Bill White’s admiration for the Chicago Way was evident when he steered a contract following Hurricane Rita to a company he had a financial relationship with, then profited from a private investment in the company,” said Texans for Rick Perry spokesman Mark Miner. “While Houston mayor, Bill White met with two other followers of the Chicago Way, then-Senator Barack Obama and his future chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.”
The Associated Press has reported, “Barack Obama, before he became president, leads a list of luminaries who met with White in Houston during his six years leading the nation's fourth largest city, according to mayoral calendar records provided to The Associated Press by Perry's campaign. Former President Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and former Democratic presidential candidates Bill Richardson, John Edwards and Wesley Clark also made the list. There is a phone call with Caroline Kennedy and a meeting with Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, who later became White House chief of staff.” [2]
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[1] “Campaign notebook,” Houston Chronicle, 11/2/03
[2] “White's schedule included politics, too,” Associated Press, 10/9/10, http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/whites-schedule-included-po...
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