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Jump To Comment: 2 1The family of brothers Sam and Charles Wyly was the ninth-largest patron of George W. Bush’s political career, the Center for Public Integrity reported in 1999. The Wylys diversified their initial software fortune into oil, mining, restaurants and retail holdings. The family sold its computer companies—Sterling Software and Sterling Commerce—for $8 billion in 2000. Soon thereafter, the media learned that Sam Wyly was synonymous with “Republicans for Clean Air,” which spent $2.5 million on pro-Bush TV ads before the 2000 primaries attacking John McCain as an environmental marauder. Commercial interests may have shaped Wyly’s views of the candidates. A recent Sam Wyly venture, Green Mountain Energy, charges a premium for purportedly environmentally friendly electricity. The company, in which BP Amoco also owns a major stake, previously lobbied to get “green” certification for power generated from incinerated animal waste.
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Did the Wyly brothers' ill-gotten loot buy the White House?
13 Apr 2005
By Greg Palast
http://www.gnn.tv/articles/1312/Wyly_Coyotes
In 2000, Sen. John McCain was wiping the electoral floor with Bush Jr. in the Republican primaries until that March when the Wylys secretly put up two and half million dollars for a campaign to smear Bush’s opponent just days before the crucial Southern primaries.
They repeated the trick in 2004, putting up cash for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the vicious little snipes who tore apart the Kerry campaign.
So what makes these guys so thrilled with Mr. Bush? There are more than ninety million reasons. While George W. was governor of Texas, investigative reporter Joe Conason discovered, a Wyly family private investment fund, Maverick Capital of Dallas, was awarded a state contract to invest $90 million for the University of Texas endowment.
That’s not all. As Governor, Bush signed into law an electricity “deregulation” bill that was little more than ill-disguised raid on consumers’ wallets by Texas power companies. The bill was in part drafted by an outfit called GreenMountain.com, a power company owned by – you guessed it – Sam Wyly.
On the day George W. signed the deregulation bill, Sam Wyly said, “Governor Bush’s hard work and leadership have paid off.” And, it seems, in 2000 and 2004, the Wylys paid back.
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