The
Las Vegas Review Journal reports this week that Amonix, a California-based solar panel company that received $6 million in tax credits and $15.6 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy, has CLOSED its manufacturing plant in Northern Las Vegas, just 14 months after it opened.
Steve Westly, the man behind Amonix, is also involved in other companies that have benefited from Obama-directed taxpayer help: Tesla Motors, CalStar Products, Solexel, Recycle Bank, EdenIQ and Amyris Biotechnologies. "Steve Westly, pictured [below] during his 2006 campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in California, is one of Obama’s top fundraisers. Companies in The Westly Group portfolio have benefited from more than half a billion dollars in loans, grants or stimulus money from the Energy Department." (Chris Carlson/Associated Press).
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| Steve Westly |
One of President Barack Obama’s most prolific fundraisers, Westly was among guests at January’s state dinner for the president of China. A month later, he dined with Obama again at an exclusive San Francisco Bay area gathering for prominent high tech CEOs, including the leaders of Facebook, Google and Apple. He visits White House staff and, as a member of a government advisory board on energy policy, has the ear of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, whose department hands out the sort of seed money sought by companies in The Westly Group portfolio. He even has hosted the president at fundraisers in his Northern California home, and co-hosted events for three of Obama’s most influential advisors. (The Center for Public Integrity)
Not surprisingly, on August 10, 2010, Obama spoke about the economy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. In his address, Obama describes Amonix as a “success story."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OR3RCQ1ywY.
Amonix didn't get there without Obama and our tax money. They didn't get there on their own.
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