Obama Advised Against Picking Sam Nunn as Running Mate; Former Senator and General Electric Board Member Allowed GE to Do Busine
25 Juin 2008 - 7:01PM
PR Newswire (US)
WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Democratic
presidential candidate Barack Obama should not select former Sen.
Sam Nunn to be his vice presidential running mate because of Mr.
Nunn's support for doing business with the terrorist state of Iran.
"Sam Nunn voted to allow the General Electric Company to do
business with Iran despite that the U.S. government had labeled
Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism," said Tom Borelli of Action
Fund Management, the investment adviser to the Free Enterprise
Action Fund, a publicly-traded mutual fund. "Someone who supports
doing business with an avowed enemy of the U.S. has no place in the
White House," Borelli added. When the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission questioned GE about its failure to disclose its business
relationship with Iran in its officials filings, GE responded in a
July 14, 2006 letter by stating that, "The issue of whether to
conduct business in certain countries is complex; we must take into
account not only the views of the U.S. Government but all relevant
stakeholders." "Sam Nunn agreed with GE's response, and it's
appalling that he would elevate the interests of a terrorist state
to the same status as U.S. national interests," Borelli said. "Who
wants a vice president that considers Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to be a GE 'stakeholder'?" Borelli added. "There's also
an element of hypocrisy in Mr. Nunn's conduct," observed AFM's
Steve Milloy. Mr. Nunn is co-chairman and CEO of the Nuclear Threat
Initiative which says that it is working to reduce the global
threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. "While NTI
and Mr. Nunn say they are working for a nuclear-free world, by
approving GE's business dealings with Iran, Mr. Nunn is helping to
prop up the Ahmadinejad regime which has avowed to acquire nuclear
weapons and freely talks of the destruction of Israel," said
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