Bush's Bro, Kilgore-VA, & Illegal Dumping...

The latest Rolling Stone (print only as far as I can tell) has a sidebar article about Marvin Bush's role in massive illegal waste dumping in VA, aided and abetted by none other than Jerry Kilgore, the right wing whack job running for governor.

Highlights from the article below the fold.

From P.44 of the print version, entitled "Marvin's Dirty Secret":

In 2001, Winston Partners, an investment firm co-founded by Marvin, paid $12.3 million to buy a waste-disposal company called Tellurian Inc.  The firm was created with a single purpose: to dump waste in a landfill rural Page County, Virginia.  A state permite allowed Tellurian to displose of no more than 250 tons a day.  But after Marvin took over, the company--rechristened National Waste Services of Virginia--dumped as many as 6,500 tons of waste per day, much of it trucked in from other states.  "Marvin was well informed about what we were doing," says Steven Frey, who chaired NWS.

Each day the firm exceeded its permit was a misdemeanor, punishable by a year in prison and a $2500 fine.  But the state inspector responsible for monitoring  the landfill testified that his boss, Ray Tesh, told him not to cite Bush's firm for all of its over-dumping violations, saying he didin't want to "antagonize NWS."  In 2003, Test left the state environmental agency.  His new job: managing operator of Bush's landfill.

Here's where it gets really juicy, particularly if you live in Virginia...

Bush got help from Jerry Kilgore, the state's Republican attorney general, who repeatedly delayed hearings on the violations, turning a blind eye as Marvin's company continued to dump more than 1,000 tons per day.  While the hearings remained stalled, Kilgore was tapped to head President Bush's re-election campaign in Virginia.

The state finally ordered the dump to shut down in March 2004.  Marvin's company declared bankruptcy, and taxpayers ended up spending $8.5 million to reopen the landfill.  Kilgore levied no fines, brought no criminal charges and kept the Bush name out of the mess.

Hope somebody from the Keane campaign picks up on this and guts Kilgore with his record of corruption.  It's amazing how the Bush family is just like the fucking mafia.