Republican activists launch Enron website to show both sides of the story; List 35 Dems-Enron Links

Enron and the Democrats ^ | 1-12-01 | StopDemocrats.com

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

Republican grass-roots activists

Launch

To counter allegations that President Bush and Republicans are the only ones with connections to Enron, Republican activists launched www.continue.to/enron where you will find links to several news articles showing that Democrats have their fingerprints all over Enron. You will also find a list of 35 facts that show direct links between the Democrats and Enron.
Here is a partial list...
1. -From 1990 to 1994 Enron gave 42% of their donations to the Democrats.

2. -Florida's state pension fund, which lost $325 million on Enron, is examining what role Frank Savage, a major Democratic donor, may have played in the state's loss. The fund's investments were directed by Alliance Capital Management, where Savage was a senior executive and chairman at the same time he sat on Enron's board. He has donated $100,000 to Democrats and is raising money for New York gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall.

3. -Lloyd Bensten, Clinton's first treasury secretary, was a recipient of Enron's money. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received the second largest donation from Enron according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

4. -Robert Rubin, Bensten's successor, was involved with Enron while he worked as an investment banker at Goldman & Sachs. Clinton first hired Rubin to head his National Economic Council. Soon afterwards, Rubin wrote on Goldman Sachs stationery to former clients, including Enron, in which he ''looked forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity.''

5. -In the days when Franjo Tudjman was Croatia's dictator and pretending to be both a reformed communist and best friend of America in the Balkans, poor Franjo had a problem. He and some of his very best friends were wanted as war criminals by the Hague's International Court of Justice. Enron wanted a power contract with Croatia. Enron offered a deal to Tudjman. Sign up with us and we will use our gang in Washington to make sure you and your friends don't go to jail.

Tudjman signed. Enron made a heap of money. Nobody went to jail. Everyone was happy - until Tudjman died of cancer. Then the lid was off, his Croatian Democratic Union was defeated and the new boys in power in Zagreb could not believe how much of their budget went to pay the electricity bills from Enron.

6. - In August 1993, McLarty, Clinton's former cheif of staff, arranged an invitation for Lay, Enron's CEO, to play golf with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar White, chief executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped the Clinton election campaign raise funds. These connections to the Democratic administration helped Enron considerably.

7. -Clinton officials publicly helped Enron win the contract in India as well as in Indonesia. Enron had received U.S. government funds to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior U.S. government officials on state trips. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company gave $100,000 to the DNC.

8. -According to the Houston Chronicle, Enron got permission to build a pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa after National Security Adviser Anthony Lake threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it didnt approve the project.

9. -The bulk of Enron's alleged chicanery had to have happened during the Clinton administration.

10. -Mayor Lee. P Brown (D) of Houston received $250,000 just before Enron filed Chapter 11. Enron campaigned against the conservative candidate for mayor. See the Rest of the List

[goldstategop]

And the Rats claim President Bush looks bad by virtue of his connections to Enron? They really need to go take a look in the mirror --- they'll find the Enron skeleton grinning right back at them.

[ventana]

Way to go.BTTT.

[rwfromkansas]

bump!

[rwfromkansas]

Please see this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/606938/posts

I think this was posted by a Democratic disrupter, but in any case, it says that Bush is responsible for this in some way because he granted Enron a waiver of Securities and Liability Regulations. I do not even know what that is, but it does not sound good.

Freepers who have a clue what they are doing, check out that thread. I would like some comments on the charges.

[Libertina]

Way to go is right! Please forward material to AP. LOL Perhaps they'll give you a "consultant's stipend." They obviously are too busy stoking the rat fires to notice all the little "details."

[Howlin]

Hot damn!

[mystery-ak]

This web-site is all well and good, and I applaud it, but I would prefer to see some Republicans on all these talking head shows to start spilling the beans on the Rats.....so far the media is barely mentioning the Rats involvemet with Enron.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

we have to start somewhere, give the link to your friends, print out he top 35 list

[Pushi]

In Item 6, it should be Oscar Wyatt, not Oscar White. I used to work for Coastal.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Yahoo! NOW YOU ARE TALKING!

[monkeyshine]

There is a lot more. See doug from upland's thread from last night, it includes a lot of links.

Most important is to see the favors that the Clinton Administration paid to Enron regarding power contracts in India and several other countries... we're talking billions of dollars in contracts, all while Enron was making donations in the neighborhood of $100,000-500,000 to the DNC.

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

The list has so much info that I can't post all of it on 1 reply. Visit www.continue.to/enron foo the entire list
I will start making the correction soon.

[rwfromkansas]

website is down....could you post the entire list?

[rwfromkansas]

back up now...lol

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

are you sure it's down?

[StopDemocratsDotCom]

let me know what u think of the list

[Pushi]

It was a routine thing. Notice of it was published which solicited public comments. Nothing shady here:

Federal Register | May 15, 2001 Posted on 1/12/02 10:35 AM Pacific by vmatt

[Federal Register: May 15, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 94)] [Notices] [Page 26849] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr15my01-64] DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. ER01-1394-000, et al.]

Enron Energy Services, Inc., et al.; Notice of issuance of Order

May 9, 2001.

Enron Energy Services, Inc., et al. (Enron Energy) submitted for filing a rate schedule under which Enron Energy will engage in wholesale electric power and energy transactions at market-based rates. Enron Energy also requested waiver of various Commission regulations. In particular, Enron Energy requested that the Commission grant blanket approval under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability by Enron Energy.

On April 27, 2001, pursuant to delegated authority, the Director, Division of Corporate Applications, Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, granted requests for blanket approval under Part 34, subject to the following:

Within thirty days of the date of the order, any person desiring to be heard or to protest the blanket approval of issuances of securities or assumptions of liability by Enron Energy should file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214).

Absent a request to be heard in opposition within this period, Enron Energy is authorized to issue securities and assume obligations or liabilities as a guarantor, indorser, surety, or otherwise in respect of any security of another person; provided that such issuance or assumption is for some lawful object within the corporate purposes of the applicant, and compatible with the public interest, and is reasonably necessary or appropriate for such purposes.

The Commission reserves the right to require a further showing that neither public nor private interests will be adversely affected by continued approval of Enron Energy's issuances of securities or assumptions of liability.

Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing motions to intervene or protests, as set forth above, is May 29, 2001. Copies of the full text of the Order are available from the Commission's Public Reference Branch, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. The Order may also be viewed on the Internet at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance). Comments, protests, and interventions may be filed electronically via the internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 385.200(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's web site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

If the DemocRats didn't want this to happen, why didn't they stop it?

[RaceBannon]

major bump!!