DOE Advises Delay Of Layoffs Until 2010 Elections Over

Barack Obama's administration gave the solar company Solyndra a half-billion-dollar loan to help create jobs.  Then they asked the company to delay announcing it would lay off workers until after the hotly contested November 2010 midterm elections that imperiled Democratic control of Congress.

Obama and others in the administration had held up Solyndra as a poster child of its clean-energy initiative, saying the company’s new factory, built with the help of stimulus money, could create 1,000 jobs. Six months before the midterm elections, Obama visited Solyndra’s California plant to praise its success, even though outside auditors had questioned whether the operation might collapse in debt.

Solyndra chief executive Brian Harrison warned the agency in an Oct. 25, 2010, e-mail that he intended to announce layoffs in three days. He wrote that journalists and investors were asking about rumored layoffs and the possible closure of one of its two factories.

Five days later, an adviser to Solyndra’s primary investor, Argonaut Equity, explained in an internal e-mail that the Department of  Energy (DOE) had strongly urged the company to delay the layoff announcement.

As the contentious 2010 elections approached, Solyndra found itself foundering, and it warned the DOE that it would need an emergency cash infusion. A Solyndra investment adviser wrote in an Oct. 30, 2010, e-mail — without explaining the reason — that Department of  Energy officials were pushing “very hard” to delay making the layoffs public until the day after the elections.

The announcement ultimately was made on Nov. 3, 2010 — immediately following the Nov. 2 vote.

How much more corruption will turn up in the Obama administration?  Corruption like this has to come from the top.  Obama knows what is going on.  The community agitator is working to destroy America.

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