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Two Fer & Hugo Berlanga & URI Do Kingville citizens glow in the dark?

Tony Canales: “These Mexicans, we can buy them two for a nickel"
1/16/2005 10:35 PM

BNP, Hugo & Tony Canales bulldozed through Austin & pristine sand dunes!
Posted on August 3, 2004 at 03:39:06 AM by Jaime

Here is a little example of Tony Canales' manipulation of Hugo Berlanga in the seat before Hugo set Capelo up to be a Fall Guy. Hugo helped get the drilling rights. Capelo got the Medical legislation passed. Then everybody who was obligated (by ties to Dr. Hector) to vote for Barbara Canales. It did not happen. Just think if it did happen. Barbara & Hugo are good friends the families are close. I overheard a conversation between the two families while I stood in line behind them at the courthouse. ENLIGHTENING! One other little thing: The King Ranch & the National Park Service are working together. King Ranch is under the National Park Service which ties in Tony's "Primo" Gen.Cisneros (KFAT CEO). There is much more like the road from Kingsville to the Island. Like the connection to the Health System that KFAT uses to hide some of the money.

Texas Observer Political Intelligence: 3/15/2002 Barbara Canales-Black, who is running for the open Senate District 20 seat in South Texas, is co-owner of BNP Petroleum, which has recently begun drilling for natural gas on Padre Island National Seashore. Canales-Black’s firm quietly obtained the permit in February from the National Park Service, and the drilling has since become a hot issue in South Texas and in the election. She has three primary opponents, including McAllen State Representative Juan Hinojosa, and a runoff is possible. (At press-time, the primary is still five days away.) Canales-Black is the scion of a well-connected political family and has been using her oil wealth to outspend Hinojosa three to one in the race. Her father is Tony Canales, Tony Sanchez’s private attorney. (Canales, you may recall, was the one who hired the private dicks involved in the embarrassing investigation–some say smear campaign–against former Secretary of State Henry Cuellar.) To access the site, BNP had to bulldoze a road through pristine dunes. The site itself is covered by a 1.7 acre well-pad made of crushed rock. As obtrusive as this is on an almost completely undeveloped national seashore, this well may be just the beginning. The company’s permit applies to a 1300 square-kilometer drilling area on the island, and BNP also has plans to do slant drilling–for oil, not gas–from the shore out into the bay and gulf. According to Erin Rogers of the Sierra Club, the company has benefited from the Bush administration’s "streamlined" National Park drilling rules, which do not require a separate environmental impact statement for each new well in a permitted drilling area. To add insult to injury, as recently as eighteen months ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had planned to designate as much as 7,000 acres in the area as critical habitat for the piping plover, a threatened bird. This designation would have made much of BNP’s proposed drilling area off limits. But BNP came back with their own habitat study, which predictably recommended protecting a much smaller portion of the seashore. Backed by Nueces County and local Chambers of Commerce, the company successfully lobbied FWS to reduce the protected area to 2,000 acres.

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* “These Mexicans, we can buy them two for a nickel,” he said in Spanish!.

By Jaime August 3, 2004 at 04:17:08 AM

Re: Hasta La Vista Baby!!!!!!!!!!! 3/13/2005 1:17 AM

OK Mr Feet; Why did you fail to mention the first choice to relocate the Bombing Range was Kenedy County KFATSO's Ranch Land Where Karl Rove maintains a $250 K per year hunting lease. That there was over 2 million dollars wasted on an enviromental study and $500 K kickback to KFATSO for "damage to land from seismic testing". That the contractors used mostly out of state workers (Lousiana). That there was a future of abundant U 238. That it is connected with Tony Canales, Hugo Berlanga, National Park Service, Armstrongs Gen Cisneros, Hunts the King Ranch BNP & BNP Paribas. The South Texas Military Task Force was somehow preserved & muscled into existence. Check it out? Also all of the fishing cabins lost due to the TEX A G Vs KFATSO regarding the spoils. Big Boys fighting dirty for big stakes!

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At 9:37 PM, Blogger dannoynted1 said...

February 5, 1999
New 'Revolvers' In '99 Lobby
Four Recently Retired Legislators Hit the Revolving Door
TNRCC Turncoat Pearson signs on with 'Buddy' Jones

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Austin¾Initial 1999 Texas Ethics Commission records reveal that four of 26 newly retired Texas legislators already have registered to lobby.
Earlier this week Texans for Public Justice released a report (Texas Revolvers) tracking 110 1997 revolving-door lobbyists, including 91 ex-legislators.

Four ex-Democratic House members who did not seek re-election last November are now registered lobbyists: Hugo Berlanga (Corpus), Keith Oakley (Terrell), Allen Place (Gatesville) and Gerard Torres (Houston).



'98 Legislators in the '99 Lobby Ex-Lege Revolver Max. '99 Value Clients Hometown
Hugo Berlanga $625,000 8 Corpus Christi
Keith Oakley $135,000 3 Terrell
Allen Place $125,000 3 Gatesville
Gerard Torres $50,000 1 Houston
Total $935,000 15

These ex-legislators¾who received a $7,200 salary in the House¾report one hell of a personal stock pop in their initial private offering (IPO) of themselves to special-interest clients.

Together, they reported a combined 1999 lobby income of up to $935,000.

This income was unevenly distributed, ranging from the up to $625,000 that Berlanga reported from eight clients, to a maximum of $50,000 that Torres reported from a single source: utility Houston Industries.
Hugo Berlanga '99 Clients Max. Value
AT&T $100,000
City of Austin $100,000
City of Corpus Christi $100,000
Driscoll Children's Hospital $100,000
DuPont Pharmaceuticals $100,000
Sagem Morpho $50,000
Waste Control Specialists $50,000
Advanced Practice Nurses $25,000
Total $625,000


The new lobbyists' clients frequently reflect their former committee assignments. Ex-Public Health Committee Chair Hugo Berlanga's new clients include such health-related interests as Driscoll Children's Hospital, DuPont Pharmaceuticals and the Coalition for Advanced Practice Nurses. (Client Sagem Morpho is a company with a Texas Department of Human Services contract to detect welfare fraud with a digital fingerprinting system).


Keith Oakley '99 Clients Max. Value
TX Utilities Services $100,000
Assoc. Security Services $25,000
TX Assoc. of Mid-Sized Schools $10,000
Total $135,000

Ex-Public Safety Committee Chair Keith Oakley represents the Associated Security Services and Investigators. The Criminal Defense Lawyers Assoc. hired ex-Criminal Jurisprudence Chair Allen Place. Finally, a utility hired ex-Energy Resources Vice Chair Gerard Torres.
Allen Place '99 Clients Max. Value
TX Criminal Def. Lawyers Assoc. $50,000
TX Municipal League $50,000
City of Katy $25,000
Total $125,000


Another leading revolving-door new-comer did not serve in the Legislature, though Texas Revolvers identified his new boss as the highest-billing ex-legislator in the 1997 lobby.

In 1998, revolver Neal "Buddy" Jones hired then-Natural Resources Conservation Commission (TNRCC) Executive Director Dan Pearson. This was a coup for Jones, whose top 1997 client was Garwood Irrigation. In 1998, TNRCC Commissioners approved a controversial $16 million Garwood "inter-basin transfer" request to funnel 11 billion gallons of water rights from the Colorado River to Corpus Christi .

TNRCC staff developed their recommendation to support the deal under Pearson, who left the agency to join Jones three months before the Commissioners approved the deal in October 1998. With the deal floated past the TNRCC, Jones' 1999 Garwood contract dropped from a maximum of $200,000 in 1997 to a maximum of $10,000 in 1999.

As the 1999 session heats up, more new revolver faces are expected to resurface in the lobby. Stay tuned.

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At 9:38 PM, Blogger dannoynted1 said...

http://www.tpj.org/Lobby_Watch/new_revolvers.html


the information in the post above this post was retrieved from this website

 

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