Bob McCarty Writes

Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.)

“CRUDE” is not only the name of an anti-Chevron film by Joe Berlinger, but it aptly describes the behavior of ultra-liberal Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) during the film’s Washington, D.C., premier Friday at the E Street Theater.

A telling audio clip, courtesy Carter Wood at the Shop Floor blog, reveals how McGovern began by “licking the boots” of Luis Yanza and Steven R. Donziger, principals on the plaintiff’s side of the Amazon Defense Coalition’s $27 billion lawsuit against Chevron Corporation, before spreading more of the group’s lies and baseless accusations about the San Ramon, Calif.-based oil giant.

Perhaps, McGovern was making a play for future campaign contributions from Donziger who, Federal Election Commission records (29992441106) show, gave McGovern $2,000 April 7.

For more than 16 years, Chevron has been fighting a bogus lawsuit in Ecuador that many estimate could result in a record $27 billion judgment against the company.  Recently, the company produced video evidence revealing what appeared to be evidence of a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme involving government officials — including the judge hearing the case who had to recuse himself after the video became public!

To read about the bribery allegations and other posts related to the Chevron-Texaco lawsuit in Ecuador, click here.

Also, check out two related posts — from Max German and Wood, respectively — about the Amazon Defense Coalition’s scorched-truth policy of public relations orchestrated by Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications.

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UDPATE 10/26/09 at 5:55 p.m. Central: Carter Wood just shot me a tidbit more about McGovern’s love of the plaintiff’s side in this huge lawsuit.  He gets most of his campaign contributions from TRIAL LAWYERS as shown in this article.