Posted on 01/11/2002 9:24:51 AM PST by Native American Female Vet
Enron's ties with the Bush administration:
By Associated Press, 1/11/2002 13:07
Enron's ties with the Bush administration:
Bush raised nearly $114,000 in political action committee money and individual donations from Enron during the presidential campaign. Enron also gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bush's two gubernatorial campaigns in Texas. Independent analyses show that Enron employees donated almost $800,000 from 1999 to 2001 to Bush, members of Congress and both parties. Most went to GOP causes.
Bush said he saw Kenneth Lay, Enron's chief executive, twice last year, but they did not discuss Enron's financial problems.
Lay met with Vice President Dick Cheney or his aides six times last year before release of the administration's energy plan. A Cheney spokeswoman said he last talked with Lay in June, and never about Enron's financial status.
Peter Fisher, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for domestic finance, spoke with Enron President Lawrence ''Greg'' Whalley six or eight times in late October and early November, according to a Treasury Department spokeswoman. Whalley asked Fisher to call bankers with whom the company was negotiating for an extension of credit but he did not make the calls, she said.
Lay called several administration officials including Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Bush's chief political fund-raiser and confidant, and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, as well as Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Enron said the calls were to alert them about the company's problems.
Attorney General John Ashcroft's 2000 Senate campaign received thousands of dollars from Enron. Ashcroft has disqualified himself from the Justice Department's criminal inquiry into Enron's conduct.
Senior Bush adviser Karl Rove owned Enron stock at the beginning of Bush's term but sold it because of federal ethics rules. Economics adviser Larry Lindsey earned $50,000 from Enron for serving on a company board last year.
Marc Racicot, whom Bush has appointed chairman of the Republican National Committee, was a lobbyist for Enron last year. Racicot said he will do no more lobbying work after he takes the GOP's top job.
Chris announced today he's been invited on some local TV show to discuss this topic.
Thank YOUUUU!!!!
(Have I told you lately how much I love you, Dr.???) lol
I'm positive AP is busy working on the Clinton/Gore connections to Enron, like Kenneth Lay's over-nights in the Lincoln bedroom and golf dates with Tubby.
It's almost comforting to see the press in their old "Hang All Republicans!!" mode. I was beginning to think the Reagan and GHW Bush years were a dream.
Perish the thought!
She's fat, she's stupid ... and I'll make a daring prediction that she'll be keeping her loud mouth closed for bidness regarding this outrageous "scandal".
And ... since Heidi Fleiss' "retirement" - is there a more ubiquitous "ho" than Chuck Schumer? This guy is financed by everyone on Earth. Willingly or not. I'm putting my wallet in my side pocket just for safety, that little putz will be sniffing around eventually.
Yes, nothng today was sweeter than the Sheila Jackson Lee connection. The Enron guys did that one exactly right.
I wish they had given Chuck "The Schmuck" more moola, but this little revelation still might protect us from hearing his voice or seeing his ugly mug till, at least, Monday or Tuesday.
I'm surprised too, he seems to be the type of guy who'd bond immediately with 50-something Texan alpha males.
That led to a bad memory of Bob Dole's 1996 campaign ... I talked to his Minnesota campaign manager one time and I said "look, it's pretty simple. In the debate, ask Bill Clinton if he, as 52 year old man, has EVER owned a house. Then, ask him the last time he has personally owned an automobile. Or driven one." They laughed it off, but NOBODY can trust the most powerful office on Earth to a 50 year old man who has never owned a mortgage, or owned or driven a CAR in 30 years!!! Do you think Hillary Clinton has a driver's lcense? Has she held a driver's license since, oh ... Chastity Bono last thought a boy was "cute"?
Sorry, it's a bias of mine ... if you're 52 and you've never owned an automobile ... much less a house ... I just don't want you micro-managing $2 billion of taxpayer money.
Yeah, that was tragic. I guess it's all up to Bruce Lindsey again to hump Clinton's leg on demand.
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