User talk:SLOB1

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hit and run posting

I see you are trying to improve the article. Good, but it will almost certainly be deleted unless you can put in several outside sources discussing the concept--see WP:RS. . Not blogs, not lists, but web is otherwise ok. Best wishesDGG 22:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Wirt Walker/Marvin Bush etc

Thanks for the for the tip about the unnamed collegue but at this time it all seems to be a moot point. User AutherRuben seems determened at all costs to make sure this section is not in the article. I have tried to contact him at his talk page and about 21 hours have passed without a reply. We have not made the 6th anniversary which was my intent and I am busy tommorow. I do not know how you or the other editors feel about having that section in general. But this is not a fight I have the time or energy to do alone. If other editors feel as I do let them contact his talk page or resume the edit war with him and I will reenter the fray. In the meantime based on your new info here is the current revision of the subsection

Links between the Bush family and companies that had security and insurance relationships with the World Trade Center

Critics often argue that the difficulty of preparing the building for demolition without being noticed makes controlled demolition implausible. Proponents sometimes point out that a company Stratesec that had a role in developing security systems for the World Trade Center had high officers in the company that had Bush family relations. Marvin Bush Presidents Bush's youngest brother was a member of the firms board of directors from 1993 through 2000. While on the board, Marvin Bush served on the company's Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. He acquired 53,000 shares of stock in the company at 52 cents a share, partly through his private company, Andrews-Bush, located in northern Virginia. Company stock became worthless after the company was de-listed on the American Stock Exchange in the fall of 2002. Securities and Exchange Commission filings ceased showing Marvin Bush as a shareholder after 2000 but there are no filings indicating when his stock was sold. Wirt Walker III was at various times CEO and chairman of the board at Stratesec. If and what relationship Walker has with the Bush family remains murky. Prominent conspiracy theorist David Ray Griffin claims that Walker is President Bush's cousin, .According to Maggie Burns a reporter for the Washington Spectator a former executive at the company Al Weinstein claims Walker is a distant relative "in the Walker branch of the Bush family”.The company received a $8.3 million World Trade Center security contract in October 1996 and received about $9.2 million from the WTC job from 1996 (a quarter of its revenues that year) to 1998. But in 1998 the company was "excused from the project" because it could not fulfill the work according Al Weinstein and the electronic security work at the WTC was taken over by EJ Electric a larger contractor. Since that time the company has gone bankrupt and as of 2005 investors were suing the company's partners including Walker in federal court in Washington.

Marvin Bush also served on the board of directors of HCC Insurance one of the main insurance carriers for the World Trade Center. HCC lost $29 million at 9/11 largely from World Trade Center property losses, medical payouts in New York City, and workers' compensation and reinsurance losses. Bush's directorship at Stratesec was not included on the proxy statement for HCC in 1999 and his connections with HCC were not included on the proxy statement for Stratesec. SEC regulations require directors and officers of public companies to list their other directorships and business connections.

The White House has refused to comment about these issues, Edkollin 05:30, 11 September 2007 (UTC)