Another Scandal made in "Aznar"

Spain's previous prime-minister, Aznar - of previous lying and deceiving fame - pulled it again.

Aznar payed $2 million USD of public money to a Washington D.C. lawyer firm to lobby for him in Congress so that Aznar could receive the Congress Gold Medal. An honor previously awarded to Thomas Edison, Nelson Mandela or Winston Churchill.

The resolution was proposed by Rep Jim Gibbons. The resolution had trouble getting the needed signatures, but after what seems to be "effective lobbying" by the contracted firm, Jim got the missing signatures and passed the act on May 15th 2004, too late to have an effect on the Spanish elections (March 14th), but only because the signatures could not be gathered before.

The act was proposed by Jim Gibbons already before the end of the year 2003.

Money makes the world go round.... That medal honor will look so good in Aznar's CV when he starts working for some lobby firm!


(1) The law proposing the awarding of the gold medal to Aznar
(2)Report from the Spanish radio Cadena SER in their web-site
(3)BBC in Spanish, an article about the same subject