BUSH'S BIG LIE
Caught Red-Handed in Lie to American People!
Will the News Media Wake UP??!
In his 1/10 press appearance about Enron, George W. Bush stated flatly that Kenneth Lay, CEO of the bankrupt Enron Corporation, supported his opponent, Ann Richards, in the 1994 Texas governor's race, and that he, Bush, only got to know Lay after that election.
But easily obtained reports and records directly contradict Bush's statements. The sources for this information are the Federal Election Commission, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Responsive Politics, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the New Yorker, and the Nation.
These reports show that Dubya and Lay go back a very long time.
Lay contributed handsomely to Bush's 1978 congressional campaign: a full SIXTEEN YEARS before Bush told the press he got to know the man.
Enron and the families of its top executives donated at least $100,000 to Dubya's gubernatorial campaign in 1994 -- the year, Bush told the press, that Lay supposedly supported Ann Richards. Although Lay may have given money to Richards, he strongly supported Dubya.
Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, is an old friend and financial beneficiary of Kenneth Lay.
After the 1992 election left Secretary of State and Secretary of Commerce (and Bush pals) James Baker and Robert Mossbacher jobless, he signed as consultants for Enron.
An article by Seymour Hersh in 1993 disclosed that Neil Bush, another presidential son (hard to keep up with all the members of the Bush Crime Family: Neil is the one cited by federal regulators for conflict-of-interest violations regarding a failed savings and loan), had attempted to do business with Enron in Kuwait.
Yesterday, Bush sat in the White House and told the American people, in effect, "I had no relationship with that man, Mr. Lay before I became governor in 1995. He was a supporter of my opponent in 1994."
OK, news media: will you call Bush and Ari Fleischer on this outrageous lie? Or will you sweep it under the rug?
(Once Again: Imagine if Bill Clinton had done something like this. IMAGINE!!)
Sources: Newsweek, 5/1/00; Boston Globe, 10/3/99; Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 4/27/00; Center for Public Integrity, THE BUYING OF THE PRESIDENT 2000; Center for Responsive Politics, website www.crp.org;FEC Records; The Nation, 11/21/94; Democratic Policy Committee, SPECIAL INTEREST REPORT, 5/16/01. |
