[swilhelm73]

he was on the board of directors of the Heinz Foundation.

Seems to me this could be big. If he was handing out money to left wing charities, we can really use the Left's statements about Lay/Enron to hammer them.

Also, it is interesting that while Lay contributed to everyone politically there was a rather important difference between the Clinton and Bush presidencies.

Namely, when Enron asked for favors from Clinton they got them. When they asked for favors from Bush they got nothing. Not that the leftist press would ever see fit to mention that...

[cwb]

Exactly! Heck, wasn't Clinton the one who personally set up the Indian deal which was one of the biggest mistakes in Enron's history? Lay was on numerous Commerce Department travels with the CLinton administration, as he was also on his Council of Economic Advisors...working for passage of Kyoto, were Enron could've made big bucks.

I also seem to recall a story about Clinton's ex-Treasurer...Rubin, who after joining Citigroup, actually called the Bush administration to get them to artificially inflate Enron's credit rating so they could continue to barrow against their already declining credit. This should've been a big story...as should the fact that none of Clinton's people adhered to his own EO ordering them to stay away from lobbying for 5 years.