Bush's SEC Pick Worked for Sex Co.

President Bush named Washington lawyer Harvey L. Pitt, who once defended insider trader Ivan Boesky, to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

What's of great consequence to me is the things I know I can impart to my children -- life perspective, religious, and moral perspective, which I think are exceedingly important.

Ya OK bud!

yet more Restoring Integrity and Honesty in Washington, GW Bush and Compassionate Conservatism 101

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

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A laughably brainless post.

Evidently you don't know what a lawyer does.

A lawyer defends people against charges. Whether the defendant might be innocent, or guilty, or the point is in question, a lawyer defends people. That is a constitutionally-guaranteed right.

That is how a lawyer makes his/her living.

I wonder about your political persuason and ethics. If 'President Gore' had nominated Johnny Cochrane, who defended an indefensible double murderer, for the same position, would you have posted this? Somehow I just don't think so.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Clinton didn't, get it?

And since when do you care? You obviously do not give a shit the Free Press has gone bye bye(see the Gore Won post and see if you can detect the REAL issue-hint, it ain't the recount).

Pitt is a hypocrite. Bush is also a hypocrite. Makes them both liers. Call it whatever you want, but even Lawyers have choices.

Talking head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Do we want somebody there who thinks it OK to work for kiddie porn distributors and Corporate raiders? Is there nobody else? Course there are THOUSANDS of better qualified and decent folks available. So why Pitt?

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Why Harvey Pitt you wonder?

I would submit this story will explain why Harvey Pitt. Firms Propose Sweeping Change To Structure of the Stock Market Broker-Dealers Seek a Single Regulator And Central Display of All Stock Quotes

In keeping with their creed, Pitt represents Centalization and market control. I know many of you Repugs think otherwise, but the Repugs are about pure Capitalism. Which means eliminating competition and centralizing governemntal control to service their capital centers.

Repugs give lipservice to notions of free markets. This is NOT their real goal, total control is. I doubt most Americans really support a Big Brother for Big Corporation model over the rights of the individual and a free and competitive marketplace. But with enough dough and enough smiling talkingheads, even good folks can be had.

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Looks like the KOOKS of the Right and Left don't like a Lawyer to do what lawyers do: represent and advocate.

Out of the wood works comes Gary Bauer from the SPLINTER Christians babbling about porno. I guess the FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS DON'T MEAN A THING WHEN THE OPPOSITION NEEDS THEM. AS USUAL, HYPOCRISY DOESN"T BOTHER HIM.

Bush's SEC Pick Worked for Sex Media Company
By MATT KELLEY
.c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (May 12) - President Bush's choice to head the Securities 
and Exchange Commission helped an online distributor of ``Teen Sex'' 
videos and other adult entertainment resolve troubles with the NASDAQ 
stock market, SEC records show. 

Directors of New Frontier Media Inc. hired Harvey Pitt in 1999 to do 
legal work in an effort to help the company keep its NASDAQ listing, 
the company said in an SEC filing. NASDAQ officials agreed last year 
to continue trading the company's stock after executives restructured 
two stock sales that ran into problems with NASDAQ rules. 

Bush on Thursday nominated Pitt as chairman of the SEC, which 
regulates the nation's stock markets. Pitt was the agency's general 
counsel from 1975 to 1978. The Senate must confirm Pitt to the post. 

Pitt did not respond to repeated requests for comment Friday. The 
White House stood behind Bush's nominee, calling Pitt experienced and 
highly qualified for the SEC job. 

New Frontier Media, which bills itself as ``America's Most Turned-On 
Media Company,'' runs several pay-per-view satellite and cable 
television channels which show adult movies. The Boulder, Colo., 
company also owns IGallery.com, a network of sexually explicit Web 
sites offering ``Teen Sex Videos,'' ``Live Nude Amateurs,'' and the 
like. Its stock closed at $3.26 per share Friday, down 29 cents. 

Religious conservatives are questioning Pitt's nomination. 

``If he has made money on the degradation of women and children, he 
is not acceptable to become the chairman of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission,'' said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, chairman of the 
Traditional Values Coalition. ``To reward that behavior with that 
appointment is not good political judgment.'' 

Former GOP presidential candidate Gary Bauer said Bush should take a 
second look at Pitt's nomination. 

``The Bush administration is in office because of millions of votes 
from Americans worried about cultural decline,'' Bauer said Friday. 
``If Mr. Pitt has provided assistance to a company that distributes 
pornography, it would be deeply insulting to those voters.'' 

The White House said many lawyers represent clients they do not agree 
with, but that argument won no favor with Bauer. 

``Many lawyers would decline to represent a racist organization,'' 
Bauer said. ``Given the damage that pornography does to women and 
children, we would hope for a higher standard.'' 

Hank Gracin, New Frontier Media's main securities lawyer, said he 
asked for Pitt's help with the NASDAQ problem because ``Harvey's the 
best of the best.'' 

``When people get in trouble, he's the first guy to call,'' Gracin 
said. 

-- Anonymous, May 12, 2001

Kooks on the right, a stacked USSC, and a few well placed thugs in Florida put Dumbo in the WH. Maybe you and Dumbo should listen. Not that it matters now of course. Like Dumbo ever gave a shit bout Family Values and similar baloney? All window-dressing. Dubya is the valet for a few fatcats.

BTW, 4 months now on the GeoWBush mailing list and not even ONE single email. What else does one need to know about how these crooks feel about the people's wants.

-- Anonymous, May 13, 2001