Douchebag Of The Day – Green Global CEO Mike Hoffman

August 7, 2012 | Filed under Douchebag Of The Day | Posted by

From Parker Leavitt reporting in the The Arizona Republic:

The CEO of a Phoenix-based energy company says he has resigned from his post after “accidentally” offering a Gilbert councilwoman campaign help in exchange for her vote on the company’s proposal to put solar panels on town streetlights.

Four days after the Town Council rejected a contract with Green Global by a 4-3 vote, CEO Mike Hoffman on Monday sent an e-mail asking Councilwoman Jenn Daniels to reconsider.

In exchange, Hoffman offered to “take out full page ads” on Daniels’ behalf, put the company’s logistics division in Gilbert and give her credit for the jobs created. The e-mail was sent to Daniels’ official town account, which is subject to public-records laws and regularly reviewed by The Republic.

“What I want is to help you get elected by allowing you to lead,” Hoffman wrote. “Would be a nice image — Jenn Daniels is then GOOD on the Environment, A Job Creator, Fiscal Leader and a Tax Cutter. … That’s a real conservative.”

Hoffman claims he wrote the e-mail as “keyboard therapy,” but didn’t mean to send it. That’s a really pathetic excuse.

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  • Commander_Chico

    The whole US Government is like this – bought and paid for by Big Money.

    • herddog505

      Yes. And the solution, of course, is to make it EVEN BIGGER, with EVEN MORE POWER. THAT will return it to the people.

      • Commander_Chico

        The situation is hopeless. There will be no going back. Government power is for the benefit of those paying the politicians and the media. The health care system is an example. Costs twice as much per capita as other OECD countries, without anything like twice the quality.

        We’re in 5th century Rome, waiting for the barbarians. I predict break-up within 50 years. Of course, I won’t be around in 50 years. Could be less, given a few more wars, terrorist attacks, depressions, or electoral crises.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G7YIUZMXOD5JGZZTCYMVA75KFU Shadow

          I agree with most of your statement on the corruption in politics. Just wondering, do you include the leftists and global warming proponents that you often defend in your assessment?

          • retired.military

            Of course he doesnt when it looks like they will lose.

        • herddog505

          So, let’s accelerate the process by making government, already riddled with corruption, even bigger. Let’s wail and moan and gnash our teeth over wicked corporations buying government while making it even more worth buying. In short, let’s embrace the policies of the democrats and the OWS (BIRM).

          So, yeah, I agree: the country is f*cked within fifty years. All according to plan.

          • Commander_Chico

            You’re not talking about specific policies, so I don’t know what you mean. For example, if you support big government boondoggles like “missile defense,” wars and the surveillance state, I don’t know what you’re against.

          • herddog505

            And the specific policies that clearly are undermining our country and leading it inevitable ruin in fifty years are…?

            Incidentally, national defense is not a “big government boondoggle” as defense is one of the actual powers and responsibilities granted to the federal government, unlike healthcare “reform”, welfare handouts, bailing out “too big to fail” banks and auto companies, and regulating CO2.

            And let’s look at BMD for a moment. Barry is budgetting about $8B for 2013 (a cut from 2012).

            http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/03/navy-ballistic-missile-defense-budget-falls-2013-033112w/

            This compares to the following items in Barry’s proposed 2013 budget:

            — $140.8 billion for R&D overall; increase the level of investment in non-defense R&D by 5 percent from the 2012 level, even as overall budgets decline; maintains the President’s commitment to double the budgets of three key basic research agencies (National Science Foundation, Department of Energy’s Office of Science, and National Institute of Standards and Technology Laboratories); expands and makes permanent the R&D tax credit.

            — $2.2 billion for advanced manufacturing R&D, a 19 percent increase over 2012.

            — A six-year, $476 billion surface transportation reauthorization bill – expanded to included inter-city passenger rail…

            — More than $350 billion in short-term measures for job growth starting in 2012…

            — $30 billion to modernize at least 35,000 schools and $30 billion to help states and localities retain and hire teachers and first responders…

            http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/overview

            Billions to fund R&D for American manufacturing companies (something I thought companies did themselves), billions more to build railroads that nobody wantsm billions more to build schools, something cities and counties used to do themselves.

            Yeah, boy: BMD is a TOTAL boondoggle and a threat to our way of life. Yessiree-bob.

          • Commander_Chico

            It is not defense we are paying for but empire.

            First, a lot of Energy research is weapons research. Los Alamos, Sandia, and Livermore are weps labs.

            I have no problems with a six year transportation bill costing $476 billion. Roads and rails have long been a government function. That bill will cost a lot less than either the Afghanistan or Iraq wars, and Americans will get roads and rails out of it, instead of death, maiming and rich foreign contractors.

            I’ve no problem with a modest expenditure for BMD for the Navy, it’s when they want to ring the cities with Nike-Dionysus or whatever for the cost of hundreds of trillions that it’s a waste.

          • herddog505

            Empire? Seriously? Where is it? Can I go there?

            Roads are a government function. I don’t think Uncle Sugar pays for the rails (at least, not directly). Roads to Nowhere are a boondoggle. And it strikes me that, for $476B, we should have some hella great roads. That term doesn’t exactly describe the I-95 or the I-40. Are we getting our money’s worth?

          • jim_m

            Well, yeah, don’t you remember our colony in Japan? Or how we set up colonial governments in Western Europe after WWII?

            This is about Empire baby!!! Too bad Chico is not interested in reality.

          • http://wizbangblog.com/author/rodney-graves/ Rodney G. Graves

            Arguably Iraq and Afghanistan are the second “empire” the United States has taken by force of arms. Like the first such empire (taken from the Spanish), it has been remarkably beneficial to the nations and peoples forming that “empire” at great cost (in blood and treasure) to the United States.

            Most empires have been rather more costly to the nations and peoples subsumed.

          • jim_m

            Come on. The left has been carrying on about American imperialism for over a generation now. You’d think we had colonies all over the globe. Reality is that the world is headed into an era of nationalism and aggressive nation-states, but that isn’t because the US is leading the world there, it’s because the US has stopped leading. Thanks obama, you’ve lead us into an era of bloodshed that the world has avoided for the last 70 years.

          • Commander_Chico

            No country ever exercised global dominance like the USA did at its peak. Bases all over the world and effective control over the foreign and economic policy of many countries. Rodney is right, Iraq and Afghanistan are recent examples of direct imperial control, but you don’t have to go too far back to consider Iran under the Shah, the Philippines under Marcos, various countries in the Caribbean and South and Central America. The dollar is still the only currency of Zimbabwe, Ecuador, El Salvador and Panama.

            The USA also has client states in Africa (Uganda, Eq. Guinea, Rwanda, Kenya), the Caucasus (Georgia, Azerbaijan), Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia to some extent). NATO also gives the USA military command over Europe’s armed forces. The USA had(s) nukes in Turkey, Italy, the UK, Spain and of course Germany. Right-wingers complain about the UN, but UN institutions are often instrumentalities of US policy, e.g. Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan.

            You can walk into Dover AFB and within a day or two catch flights to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America.

          • jim_m

            A client state is not a colony. You are revealing yourself to be a typical lefty troll claiming that the US is a dangerous imperial nation gobbling up defenseless, peaceful states.

            We are seeing now that our strength contributed a lot toward peace. What the left doesn’t like is that our strength meant that communist dictatorships couldn’t grow unchecked. Well, you’re getting your wish today.

        • http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

          The barbarians are among us – demanding our wallets so they can get what they want without paying for it.

          Costs rise significantly the closer you get to perfection.

          Getting to 90% quality takes $X.

          Getting to 95% takes $X times two.

          Getting to 99% takes $X times 10

          Getting to Obamacare will take $X times 2, for 50% quality, if not more for less.

          Remember the military healthcare system you had on active duty? Imagine it run by the DMV driver’s license department.

          (Tag office is pretty efficient around here, oddly enough.)

  • http://twitter.com/MaggieW65 MaggieW65

    I’ll be doing the happy dance when the law of gravity finally catches up with all of these law breaking jerks.

  • http://opinion.ak4mc.us/ Scribe of Slog (McGehee)

    Sounds like the “accidental” part of this was sending it to a public-record email address and not to the councilwoman’s private account.

    Maybe he could have tweeted her pics of his junk while he was at it.

  • ackwired

    Buying off politicians is so common here in the land of Sherriff Joe that this guy didn’t think twice about broadcasting his offer in public email. You gotta love it.

  • GarandFan

    Just more of the Chicago way.