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Title
UST
provides
free
flights
to
N.M
.
governor
Description
A
Greenwich-based
tobacco
company
that
lobbied
the
New
Mexico
legislature
this
year
for
tax
changes
provided
Gov
.
Bill
Richardson
with
tens
of
thousands
of
dollars
worth
of
free
jet
airplane
flights
, an
Alburquerque
Journal
review
of
Democratic
Governors
Association
records
showed
. The
newspaper
reported
the
findings
in a
coypright
story
. The
company
,
UST
Inc.
,
is
the
parent
corporation
of the
firm
that
makes
Skoal
and
Copenhagen
,
among
other
brands
. The
five
free
flights
provided
to
Richardson
through
the
association
,
which
he
chairs
,
last
year
and
early
this
year
were
worth
more
than
$40,000
, the
newspaper
reported
. A
New
Mexico
tax
change
bill
,
sponsored
by
Richardson's
chief
legislative
ally
,
House
Speaker
Ben
Lujan
,
proposed
linking
chewing
tobacco
tax
to the
weight
of the
product
.
New
Mexico
currently
taxes
the
tobacco
at
25
percent
of the
manjufacturer's
price
,
meaning
higher-priced
products
such
as
Skoal
and
Copenhagen
are
taxed
more
than
budget
brands
.
Under
Lujan's
bill
, a
budget
brand
of the
same
weight
would have
carried
the
same
tax
as a
can
of
Skoal
Subject
UST
Inc
;
Airplanes
Creator
Greenwich Library
Publisher
Greenwich
Time
Type
Index
Page/Section/Column
B8
Date
2006-05-17
Rights
Index maintained in the Local History Collection, Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT
Rights Holder
Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT
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