NJ's RGGI Pullout: the Latest Christie-Koch Wink-Nod?

[DainBramaged]

As noted recently at Blue Jersey, the lead Iowa Republican funder who Governor Christie met with during “CopterGate” was Koch business partner Bruce Rastetter. There is a very interesting history between Rastetter, the Koch brothers, their business interests and Chris Christie – and given Christie’s history of rewarding his cronies with lucrative contracts, this more than bears watching closely.

Let’s connect some very big dots.

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Rastetter is a major early seed money donor to the very shady “American Future Fund” (“AFF”). In 2010, both the AFF and the Koch Industries PAC were involved in the Adler/Runyan Congressional race, as was Christie, who recorded an ad for Runyan in the closing days of the campaign.

Earlier this year, a Koch subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources Renewables LLC acquired Rastetter’s ethanol plants in an all cash deal. At the beginning of this past May, it was first reported that Rastetter, among others, would be coming to New Jersey in order to sweet talk Christie. As part of the report, Rastetter said the following about Christie:

"There isn’t anyone like Chris Christie on the national scene for Republicans," Rastetter said. "And so we believe that he, or someone like him, running for president is very important at this critical time in our country."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/08/983321/-NJs-RGGI-Pullout:-the-Latest-Christie-Koch-Wink-Nod?via=blog_510699

The rest of the article is very interesting, please take a look, thanks.

[kristopher]

1. That would be Christie Koch Exelon...

Christie, the darling of the hard-right energy policy wackos, prefers to crowd a couple of more reactors into the Salem complex in S. Jersey along with more drilling for oil, exploiting tar sands, and more coal plants.

[deminks]

2. Oh yeah, there is a reason one of the people from Iowa who paid Christie a visit

during the infamous helicopter meeting was a Koch representative.