by Publius From The Hill:
House Republicans released emails Wednesday that show a major fundraiser for President Obama discussed the $535 million loan guarantee for the solar company Solyndra during a meeting with White House officials.
George Kaiser, a “bundler” for Obama’s campaign whose foundation invested in Solyndra, said the issue “came up” during a spring 2010 meeting with White House officials. Ken Levit, executive director of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, also attended the meeting.
“[A] couple of weeks ago when Ken and I were visiting with a group of Administration folks in DC who are in charge of the Stimulus process (White House, not DOE) and Solyndra came up, every one of them responded simultaneously about their thorough knowledge of the Solyndra story, suggesting it was one of their prime poster children,” Kaiser wrote in a March 5, 2010, email to Steve Mitchell, an executive at venture capitalist firm Argonaut.
The email appears to contradict an October ABC News story in which Kaiser and the Obama administration said Solyndra did not come up at Kaiser’s meetings with the White House.
The White House dismissed the emails Wednesday as an attempt by House Republicans to score political points.
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