"Does the name Keneth Lay ring a bell. Indicted criminal is number one donor to Bush."
Are you deliberately lying or just ignorant of the facts? Ken Lay (and family) or even all Enron associated donors together don't come close to being the "number one top donor to Bush".
From his two presidential campaigns alone, there are four companies whose employees gave more than your linked website says Enron employees have given Bush over his entire political career. Oops, huh?
GEORGE W. BUSH (R)
Top Contributors
Cycle: All Cycles
Morgan Stanley $750,380
Merrill Lynch $712,429
PriceWaterhouseCoopers $639,298
UBS Americas $621,975
MBNA Corp $595,025
Credit Suisse First Boston $520,940
Goldman Sachs $520,599
Ernst & Young $481,589
Citigroup Inc $430,300
Vinson & Elkins $381,628
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu $369,050
Lehman Brothers $360,675
Bear Stearns $342,080
Bank of America $328,761
Wachovia Corp $322,810
US Government $322,137
JP Morgan Chase & Co $311,105
Blank Rome LLP $297,900
Microsoft Corp $258,040
Ameriquest Capital $248,400
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All Lay contributions to Bush presidential campaigns:
Results: 4 records found in 0.2188 seconds.
Search Criteria:
Donor name: lay
Donor occupation: enron
Recipient: bush
Cycle(s) selected: 2004, 2002, 2000
Total for this search: $3,000
Contributor Occupation Date Amount Recipient
LAY, KENNETH L HOUSTON,TX 77019 ENRON CORPORATION 3/29/1999 $1,000 Bush, George W
LAY, KENNETH L MR HOUSTON,TX 77019 ENRON CORPORATION/EXECUTIVE 5/17/2000 $1,000 Bush, George W
LAY, MARK K HOUSTON,TX 77019 ENRON CORP 5/26/1999 $500 Bush, George W
LAY, MARK K HOUSTON,TX 77019 ENRON CORP 6/7/1999 $500 Bush, George W
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All Lay political contributions, 2000-2004 election cycles:
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All Lay political contributions, 1996 and 1998 cycles:
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BTW, John Kerry's top career donors are mostly law firms ($22 million in 2004 cycle alone) and Wall Street financial firms. We know what the lawyers wanted, of course. |
