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Source link: http://blog.mises.org/8277/markets-in-everything-foreign-policy-edition/

Markets in Everything: Foreign Policy Edition

July 13, 2008 by

A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.

Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in recent years, said he would arrange meetings with Dick Cheney, the vice-president, Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, and other senior officials in return for a payment of $250,000 (£126,000) towards the library in Texas…

Stephen Payne: “The main thing is that he [the Asian politician] comes, and he’s well received, that he meets with high-level people . . . and we send positive statements made back from the administration about ‘This guy wasn’t such a bad guy, many people have done worse’.”

{ 2 comments }

The biggest market of them all. July 14, 2008 at 7:45 am

The biggest market of them all is the one to control the market process itself. I like to call it the privilege of using violence.

mikey July 16, 2008 at 11:42 am

I’d pay not to meet these people.

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