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The following is an except from the article. Freeper topher introduction: Note that President Bush is being quoted at this point. Also note that G.B.C. is short for Governors Business Council He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994, and she had named him the head of the Governor's Business Council, and I decided to leave him in place just for the sake of continuity. And that's when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken, and he supported my candidacy.

Wishing won't make it soThe Dems are such neophytes at whipping up public frenzy to tie Bush to the Enron collapse they have started an E-Mail campaign pleading (some say threatening) journalists to dig harder.Don Van Atta Jr., the New York Times go-to guy for scandal connect-the-dot stories must have been on their list.He's on the case already but is still forced to add the following sentence: "Although no one has suggested Bush has done anything wrong."Stay Tuned.Enron boredom looms.

With in days of Governor Bush announcing his run for the presidency I ran into a friend at the Coffee Pub here in Las Vegas. My friend is fairly high up in the DNC and the first thing I asked him was his opinion on Bush's run. He replied that he had a very good chance except for that problem with cocaine. In the months to come I realized what was going on, the Democrats really had nothing to pin on Bush so they made some thing up! The press of course was more than happy to oblige. Despite the ...

On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, Ken Lay, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME magazine. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave $100,000 to President Clinton's party. ...

I sent the following e-mail to Josh Gerstein of ABC news, Josh.Gerstein@abc.com, and you will see by his reply he does not address my assertions but just continues to hold the line. There is no reality to this story of Bush or any involvement that would reflect negatively on the current administration. Instead, Gerstein simply says its in the press and so he jumps on it, that the press was lazy and now all of a sudden there is great interest. MY E-MAIL: Mr. Gerstein, I read your piece "Friends in High Places Bankrupt Enron Held Sway With Current Bush ...

ENRON CORPHOUSTON, TX 77251 5/7/1997 $10,000 DNC/Non-Federal-Corporate ENRON CORPHOUSTON, TX 77251 10/10/1997 $25,000 DNC/Non-Federal-Corporate ENRON CORPHOUSTON, TX 77251 3/26/1998 $10,000 DNC/Non-Federal-Corporate ENRON CORPWASHINGTON, DC 20006 6/15/2000 $25,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON CORPWASHINGTON, DC 20006 9/5/2000 $50,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON CORPWASHINGTON, DC 20006 9/5/2000 $50,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON CORPWASHINGTON, DC 20006 9/5/2000 $50,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON CORPORATIONHOUSTON, TX 77251 5/22/2000 $50,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON CORPORATIONHOUSTON, TX 77251 11/1/2000 $10,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON INTERNATIONALHOUSTON, TX 77251 5/17/1999 $25,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON INTERNATIONAL INCHOUSTON, TX 77251 12/15/1999 $25,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON INTERNATIONAL INCHOUSTON, TX 77251 3/31/2000 $50,000 DNC/Non-Federal Corporate ENRON WASHINGTON INCHOUSTON, TX 77251 ...

Bush, aides knew of Enron troubles By Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff, 1/11/2002 WASHINGTON - As legal troubles mounted for energy giant Enron, White House officials acknowledged yesterday that Enron chairman Kenneth Lay, a major donor to President Bush, had called two Bush Cabinet members late last year to discuss the company's collapsing finances. White House officials, eager to control the political damage at the start of a criminal inquiry, said the administration had not offered assistance after Lay called the Commerce and Treasury secretaries. Bush, who has known Lay since his years in Texas, sought to distance himself further, ...

Enron’s Campaign Contributions, 1989-2001- Senate & House

T H E   C E N T E R   F O R   R E S P O N S I V E   P O L I T I C S    T H E   C E N T E R   F O R   R E S P O N S I V E   P O L I T I C S  Enron Contributions to Current Senators, 1989-2001* Enron Contributions to Current Members of the House of Representatives, 1989-2001* Back to Alert Back to Alert     Name Total Name Total Ken Bentsen (D-Texas) $42,750 Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) $99,500 ...

Mary Matalin, senior advisor to both President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, described for the first time publicly Friday morning a series of meetings Cheney had with Enron officials before the energy giant collapsed last month. Matalin also decried the media's efforts to draw parallels between Enron's collapse and ex-President Clinton's Whitewater scandal, telling talk radioman Don Imus, "They act like there's some billing records or some cattle scam or some fired travel aides or some blue dress." But, complained the top White House aide, "There's no there, there... They're trying to make a connection where none exists ...

All this hullabaloo about an Enron scandal in the Bush White House has got to be the DUMBEST thing I have read in my 47 years on earth. I am an investor in the stock market who reads and watches every worthwhils bit of information every day on the market. I am here to tell you that not one reputable Wall Street analyst was aware of Enron's real troubles.It is at least ostensible that Enron "cooked the books", and now the corporate accountants have admitted to shredding many documents. Now, if not one person on Wall Street knew anything , ...

It didn't take very long for reporters to get over the scandal fatigue they claimed they were all suffering after covering the most ethical administration is history for eight years. But now that there's a Republican in the White House, the investigative juices are flowing once again. During a radio interview Friday morning ABC newsman Sam Donaldson explained that he was ready to go after the Enron scandal hammer and tong. How does the energy giant's financial collapse stack up against Bill and Hillary Clinton's Whitewater and Sexgate imbroglios? "I think this scandal is going to dwarf the the two ...

TIME MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 1, 1997 On Nov. 22, 1995 President Clinton scrawled an FYI note to chief of staff Mack McLarty, enclosing a newspaper article on Enron Corp. and the vicissitudes of its $3 billion power-plant project in India. McLarty then reached out to Enron's chairman, Ken Lay, and over the next nine months closely monitored the project with the U.S. ambassador to New Delhi, keeping Lay informed of the Administration's efforts, according to White House documents reviewed by TIME magazine. In June 1996, four days before India granted final approval to Enron's controversial $3 billion power-plant project, Enron's gave ...

The realm of politics always guarantees endless hours of riveting entertainment and there is nothing more fascinating than the manner in which credit and blame are distributed within it. In this subculture where perception is better than reality and truth is often inconvenient it can be quite an ordeal to stay grounded in little things like facts. Thirteen years after leaving office, Ronald Reagan is still habitually accused of creating the budget deficits of the 1980´s. This is in spite of forcing tax cuts past an adversarial congress and thereby doubling the cash flow into the US Treasury by ...

ENRON – WHAT’S GOING ON? Do you want an 60-second rendition of just what all this Enron stuff is all about? OK .. here you go. Enron was the nation’s seventh largest corporation in terms of revenue.  Enron would buy natural gas and electrical energy from producers and re-sell those commodities to distributors and consumers.  Enron was apparently cooking the book.  Enron was heavily in debt, but the debt was hidden in various partnerships.  Eventually the house of cards caved in and Enron tanked.  Many Enron employees and investors literally lost most of their life savings. Enron’s connection to President ...

January 11, 2002 A Familiar Capital Script By DON VAN NATTA Jr. ASHINGTON, Jan. 10 — The rapidly exploding Enron (news/quote) inquiry presents elements reminiscent of earlier Washington scandals, including carefully phrased denials and accusations of easy access. And in a matter of hours today, it sent the White House into a full- scale effort to contain the potential damage to President Bush at a time when he wants to focus on the war on terrorism and the flagging economy. The White House spent much of the day trying to distance the president from a torrent of bad news ...

January 11, 2002 Enron Contacted 2 Cabinet Officers Before Collapsing By ELISABETH BUMILLER ASHINGTON, Jan. 10 — The White House disclosed today that Kenneth L. Lay, the chairman of the Enron Corporation (news/quote) and one of President Bush's biggest political contributors, telephoned two cabinet officers last fall, and one of them said Mr. Lay had sought government help with its dire financial condition. Both said they declined to offer government aid. In a day of rapid-fire developments, Attorney General John Ashcroft excused himself from all matters involving Enron because of campaign contributions he received from it. In addition, Enron's ...

Enron's sudden fall from grace has made it a dirty word in American business, associated with cooking its books and spreading money around to friendly politicians. But in India, the Houston-based energy-trading company has long been viewed in much that way, as a heavy-handed U.S. corporation, expert at manipulating local politicians and callous in overriding the interests of everyday citizens. For many on the Asian subcontinent, Enron epitomized the downside of the modern global economic system where powerful corporations from the West often bully their way into development projects that fail to live up to shiny promises. A case in ...

Bush administration officials yesterday disclosed that the top official of Enron Corp., one of President Bush's biggest campaign donors, sought help from the administration to avoid bankruptcy in the weeks before the giant energy concern collapsed last year, wiping out the pensions of thousands of workers. Enron chief executive Kenneth L. Lay had conversations about his company's dire finances with Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans. Lay told Evans, Bush's former campaign manager, that he would welcome help stopping a private credit-rating agency from downgrading Enron debt ? an event that could force Enron into ...

<p>Or a search for political scapegoats?</p> <p>Friday, January 11, 2002 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>Crime may have declined in the streets but, by the recent inflammation of the pundits, you would think there has been an outbreak of corporate criminality. The Internet, communications and stock-market booms of the 1990s, it seems, were based on a pervasive series of felonious acts. A wide array of businesses, from Global Crossing to Loral, from General Electric to Enron, artfully inflated the worth of their shares through the creation of Potemkin businesses. If you believe the news coverage, corporate leaders are racing to despoil, mulct, defraud, poison, pillage and ruin their own businesses, their nation's soils and waters, their retirement funds, and the world economy.</p>