More to the Bush-Barnes Story

by soccerdad

As has been detailed here , former speaker of the Texas House Ben Barnes helped Bush avoid the draft and get into the National Guard. There may be more to the story.

Greg Palast, a reporter for the BBC, is reporting that Barnes exacted some payback from Bush when the later became govenor of Texas (Still Unreported: The Pay-Off In Bush Air Guard Fix)

Barnes called Bush and asked for a "favor", to renew the contract of GTech to run the Texas state lottery. Gtech was about to lose the contract because of corruption. After Barnes called Bush the decision was reversed and GTech got the no bid contract. Barnes got $23 million from GTech.

Apparently, Palast has had this story since 99 and ran it on BBC. He can't get anyone in the US to run it.