Express Briefing: Spurs bill county $250,000 for AT&T Center voting site
Dec. 14, 2020
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A group who arrived on a mini-bus from The Towers on Park Lane waits in line to vote at the AT&T Center in San Antonio on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
San Antonio company making flags for Biden inauguration
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Rodriguez unfurls the red and white portion of a flag that she stitched.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Seamstress Lucy Rodriguez wears a patriotic mask while she sews the red and white stripes for a U.S. flag on a trusty Singer sewing machine at Dixie Flag and Banner Company.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Lucy Rodriguez has been a seamstress for over 25 years and has sewn the flags for the presidential inauguration since 2016. The company is making the five flags that will hang between the columns of the U.S. Capitol during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.Kin Man Hui /Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
asking about opportunities to publicize it. and biden did, by video, i think help make the announcement of the loan guarantee. on the other hand you have civil servants in the department of energy and the office of management and budget questioning their numbers, questioning their cash flow. in fact there is one e-mail that says, this company is going to run out of money in september of 2011. pretty prescient that that particular analyst nailed it as to when the company would go into bankruptcy. martha: the big question is how high up does it go? we saw pictures of the president walking around solyndra. they unfurled big american flags at solyndra the day the president visited the company. clearly he felt that it was a good, positive company and that it was, you know, a good sort of banner company for the green jobs that he wanted to bring into the country but the bottom line what did they actually know about the financials? and if they did, why on earth would they push it?