Who is this guy? Wikipedia has a pretty good summary from which I gathered:
Made a fortune in the 80's taking over companies or something. (I didn't really read this part, but sounds bad)
Makes a bigger fortune managing a hedge fund (no opinion).
Donated lots of money to Bush in 2004 campaign. (bad)
Perhaps the biggest financial backer of the Swift Boats for Truth (bad)
Donated a TON of money of Oklahoma State University (good)
The majority was for athletics (bad -- including a nasty immenent domain buy out of people's homes to build a new athletic "village")
Now is single handedly investing in a MASSIVE wind-power project with some natural gas too (good, probably in it for the money, but still good)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickens
Anyone know more?
POHS
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Friday, July 25, 2008
t boone pickens
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http://www.pickensplan.com/
i forgot that i had seen his commercials. so i thought the website from his seemingly political yet strangely Al Gore-Like ads would be helpful.
geg
I remember reading about the OSU donation, and how it was a little controversial that he was donating all this money, but that it was earmarked for the one part of the school that really had plenty of funding to begin with. He definitely doesn't sound like the sort of guy you'd want to spend a lot of time with. Which is what makes his investment so great, really. It's like the new movement among conservative Christians to be environmental stewards of God's creation...the fact that people so different from the average environmentalist are coming behind environmental initiatives proves that it's a powerful force in our society and that it has a future as a commercial and cultural enterprise, rather than something that 90% of people are dragged into kicking and screaming when the ocean starts coming into their living rooms.
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