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How Chris and Joe Cannon Sold out Their Fellow Mormons
Submitted by Mormons for Justice
When Paul Drockton found out about Farmers [Insurance Co] true intents he contacted the office of Chris Cannon (Republican). Drockton’s office in Provo, Utah; Cannon’s District. Cannon’s office was extremely interested and asked that all the documents be faxed to them. They were given everything. Then, very bad things started happening to Drockton and he knew Farmers/Zurich/B.A.T. was the root cause; he just didn’t know how they were doing it.
Add Chris Cannon’s name to the other great sellouts in history. It’s a bold statement. But, we will now back it up with facts:
- in 1999-2000, Cannon received $340,655 in donations. His campaign was showing $1,664,044 in debt! Allstate donated $500. American Success PAC gave him $1,000, the council of insurance agents; 500,; the property/casualty insurer PAC gave him $1,000 and that was pretty much it from the car/home insurance industry. A Total of $3,000 out of $340,655 Total contributions. In essence, not a player in Insurance.
- It was around 11/02 that Drockton left Farmers Insurance. He filed his complaints in 8/02.
In 2002, Chris Cannon took in about $364,357 in donations to his campaign. His debt was $1,718,742.00. Things were not looking up.
1. In October, 2002 he received a check from American Insurance Association for $1000. It seems that Zurich/Farmers decided to start contributing to this PAC about the same time Drockton was making his case. In all Zurich/Farmers gave $4,550 to this PAC in 2002. All of it after Drockton filed his complaint with Farmers/Zurich. Prior to this Zurich made no contributions to this PAC at all.
Liberty Mutual gave $1,000 10/21/2002. Travelors gave $1,000, Independent Agents gave $1,000. Kemper Insurance (Owned by Zurich/Farmers) gave $500 on 10/15/2002
These donations meant, “we need to talk” and were designed to send a message that we are very interested in talking to you right now.
- By December 2002, Drockton had a restraining order and injunction against his wife’s business partner, Jill Beard. He also had irrefutable evidence, from the business records, that showed she had been paid off to destroy his reputation and financial situation by Farmers/Zurich/B.A.T. He spent much of the first part of the year trying to get Farmers investigated. He turned all of the materials over to Utah County Investigators., the FBI and other law enforcement. Nothing happened.
3. Chris Cannon had a great 2003. His debt was down to $22,746 from $1,718,742.
He about doubled his campaign contributions to $640,259.
As an aside, Between March and December of 2003, Cannon received $2,000 from Jack Abramoff, now convicted felon and political pariah.
The Alliance of American Insurers, which looks like it gets its money from Liberty Mutual, gave $1500. Allianz (Firemen’s Fund) gave $1,000.
Between 3/6/03 and 6/10/03, The American Insurance Association gave $3,000. They gave another $1,000 on 6/29/04 ($4,000total). The American Insurance Association received a larger influx of cash in 2003/04 from Zurich/Farmers/B.A.T., Zurich/Kemper, Fireman’s fund and Travelors.
The American Success Political Action Committee gave Cannon $2500 on 5/26/04. This is a catch-all PAC with some Insurance and mutual funds contributing to it. It would take more research to see who is who.
Chubb Corp gave $2,000. C.N.A. gave $1,000.
The Freedom Project, with definite ties to Insurance gave $5,000.
Hartford Financial Services: $3,000 (ties to Farmers Financial Solutions)
Indiana Farm Bureau, $500 Cannon looks to be the only non-Indiana Recipient. Indiana is where Drockton came from.
Possible tie: National Federation of Independent Business with Insurance donors.
It seems that Cannon was the darling child of the auto/home insurance industry! The question is, how much would a billionaire pay to keep himself out of jail? How much would a Congressman and Republican leader charge to shut down a criminal investigation.
This is just the beginning.
Source: http://journals.aol.com/mormons4justice/Mormons4Justice/
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