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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

UST provides free flights to N.M. governor

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