[NYTr] Bye, Mel: More Bad News for Bush, US tni-Cuba Gang Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:53:58 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Cuba Now - Oct 22, 2007 http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=10&item=3523&c=2 More Bad News for Bush and US-based Anti-Cuba Circles By Sara Estevez Cubanow.- The resignation last Friday by Senator Mel Martinez from his post as president of the US Republican Party sent a discouraging sign to Miami-based Anti-Cuba organizations and President Bush, who has seen the departure of several cabinet officials. Martinez, who led the Republican Party for the past 10 months, represented the ultra-right Cuban American circles at the White House and he was described by Congress woman Iliana Ros-Lehtinen as bthe hopeb since his appointment. At the time he took office, Mel already had considerable embezzlement records from his work as head of the US Housing and Urban Development Department. Mel Martinezbs participation in the stealing of the Cuban Havana Club trademark is well known. He did it in the interest of the Bacardi rum enterprise, which supported and financed the promoters of the extraterritorial Helms-Burton Law. According to speculations, Mel resigned because he wants to dedicate himself to his own bpolitical careerb, though his case is different from those who have decided not to keep involved in the scandals the US President, because Mel Martinez simply is a man of the Bush clan. October 22, 2007 * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================