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Posted on 07/09/2004 1:26:29 PM PDT by GeorgeW23225
Just on the Fox News Channel.............
A Heinz-Kerry, Kenneth Lay, Enron connection.
It seems that Kenneth Lay was not only a guest of John and Teraaazzzaaa at their Georgetown Mansion, BUT.....he was on the board of directors of the Heinz Foundation. In turn, Terrraaaazzza had over $250,000 in Enron stock.
I wonder if we should tell Michael Moore ??? :-)
Stay tuned. This could be interesting..........
We are held to a higher standard than Dims and Libs. Get over it and live with the unfairness of it all.
See the Boston Globe article below in post #30 !!
Er, uh, Clinton was ENTIRELY bought off by Enron donations/bribes; and explicitly made foreign policy and US political pressure and US energy dept proposals on behalf of Enron to Indonesia, China, and India.
It was, in fact, the economic failure of these Ponzi schemes (under Bush, when he refused to go along with Enron's promotions) that led to Enron's failures.
Are you from the demoRat Underground?? You seem to be trying VERY hard to make light of this connection. Are you embarrassed by it??? I also find it amusing that you answer your own posts.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A37316-2003Jun26¬Found=true
Kenneth Lay's Kerry Connection
By Lloyd Grove
Friday, June 27, 2003; Page C03
The following is excerpted from this article:
Yesterday, self-styled muckraker Bernardo Issel of NonprofitWatch.org told us that the much-maligned Lay has been a longtime member of the board of trustees of the Heinz Center, an environmental group founded by the candidate's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. She's the group's vice chairman, and Lay left the small board earlier this year after serving for nearly a decade.
Issel calls this situation "hypocrisy." We'll settle for "irony."
The Kerry campaign directed us to Chris Black, communications director of the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Black acknowledged Lay's participation and his status as a corporate "boogeyman." But she added: "Whatever troubles he had at Enron, Ken Lay had a good reputation in the environmental community for being a businessman who was environmentally sensitive.
When did she sell her 250,000 in Enron stock, and who told her to sell it?
Great question?
Is this and similiar situations why Madame al Queery will not release her income tax forms from past years.
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I was referring to the story at the head of this thread concerning the Heinz-Kerrys. Clinton is beyond reach at this point. The impeachment was the only shot we had.
I would make a sizeable wager that Ken Lay will not be convicted if they dont stack the jury.
bttt
Oh no, it's far worse than that. Enron was a big trader in the electricity market; everyone knows that. What fewer people know is that it had spent millions of dollars setting up an operation to trade greenhouse gas credits, the guts of the Kyoto Accords. It had planned to dominate the world market in trading those credits between all the various industries and companies and Bush blew them out of the water.
IIRC, it was Clinton's money man - Ron Brown - that set up the Indian deal. He handled most of Clinton's dirty work.
If he hadn't died in that plane crash in the Balkans it is interesting to ponder what would have come out of his pending indictment...
Ain't never gonna' happen. The RATS think with their ovaries.
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You got that right. Here's a little more on the Lay/Heinz connections, including Enron and Kyoto:
NonprofitWatch.org
Extended Discussion of John Kerry's Enron Hypocrisy:
Senator John Kerry often bashes President Bush as to how Enron and other power companies have influenced the administration's energy policy. Kerry has used Enron as a pejorative adjective to describe dubious policies. Moreover, he gave $1000 to an Enron worker's relief fund because it had originated as a campaign donation from a wind company which was an Enron subsidiary. On the campaign stump, he charges corporations with having adversely impacted American democracy.
NonprofitWatch.org agrees with the Senator regarding his critiques of Enron and corporations, but suggests that this criticism should also be directed at his wife Teresa Heinz.
For eight years Teresa maintained a close relationship with Ken Lay. Since 1995 Mr. Lay served as a trustee of the Heinz Center for Economics, Environment and Science which Teresa founded to memorialize her late husband. Teresa, as well Fred Krupp the executive director of Teresa's main environmental philanthropy Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), also served as trustees.
Oddly, Mr. Lay served as a trustee even after Enron's demise -- a pamphlet obtained from the Heinz Center in the spring of 2003 listed him as a trustee affiliated with Lay Interests LLC. This seems odd in light of Kerry's highly critical comments of Enron.
It is probable that as a wealthy trustee of the group, Mr. Lay was a major donor to the project; about this NonprofitWatch.org has no information, but this should be something for Teresa and the Heinz Center to reveal to the public.
In light of Enron's demise and Ken Lay's leadership role in the scandal-ridden company, his service as a trustee is a poor commentary upon the work of the Heinz Center, besides being an embarrassment to the memory of Mr. Heinz.
Regarding Teresa, Mr. Kerry and his campaign have celebrated Teresa Heinz for her philanthropy, of which environment is a major part. However, NonprofitWatch.org suggests that a significant part of her environmental advocacy was shaped to benefit Enron's interests. Teresa long served as vice-chairperson of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), though she has stepped down from that role and is currently just a trustee.
Teresa's Heinz Foundation has long been a major financial supporter of EDF. In light of Teresa's relationship to Enron's Ken Lay and her role with EDF, the below policy stances by EDF that benefited Enron raise questions regarding the ethics and integrity of Teresa's work.
-- In 1998 EDF opposed a ballot initiative Proposition 9 that would have repealed utility deregulation in California. When the bill to deregulate California's energy market passed the legislature in 1996, EDF failed to voice opposition. Energy deregulation proved to be a gross catastrophe for California in terms of economics and the environment but was of great benefit to energy companies such as Enron. Teresa's close ties to Enron's Ken Lay raise the question of whether she was beguiled by Mr. Lay and his likely donations to the Heinz Center.
-- EDF was a major proponent of greenhouse gas emissions trading, a business-friendly approach to address global warming. While environmentalists criticize Bush regarding his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, it should be noted that the Kyoto's trading clauses which EDF influenced have been criticized by some environmentalists as loopholes of the treaty. Enron was a strong supporter of Kyoto as the company looked forward to profiting from trading in greenhouse credits.
In light of Enron's business shenanigans and the company's utter collapse, NonprofitWatch.org suggests that the emissions trading scheme may itself be a house of cards. Moreover, the capacity to trade depends upon low targets for emissions reductions. Here again, close ties to Ken Lay raise questions about the judgement of EDF.
-- EDF has long focused on environmental matters related to Brazil. When Enron built an environmentally-damaging pipeline through a biologically rich area of the Brazilian Amazon, EDF politely never publicly condemned Enron. Only after Enron's fall did EDF utter public criticism, in an email sent out to the group's email list.
-- Other examples of EDF's support for Enron will be described in a future briefing. Whether Teresa had an active or ignorant role in the above is not clear and probably could never be fully ascertained; however either case reflects poorly upon her philanthropy environmentalism. Her close ties to Enron's Ken Lay cast questions about both the integrity of Teresa's philanthropy and the environmentalism of Teresa's EDF. At the very least there is the troubling appearance of conflict of interest coinciding with policy by EDF in the interest of Enron.
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