While out searching Enron and donations to each party, and questions, etc....some of what was found...
Are any of these items true????
-Lloyd Bensten, Clintons first treasury secretary was a recipient
of Enrons largesse. At the time of his campaign for Senate, he received
the second largest donation from Enron according to the Center for
Responsive Politics.
-Robert Rubin, Benstens successor, was involved with Enron while he
worked as an investment banker Goldman & Sachs. Clinton first
hired Rubin to head his National Economic Council. Soon afterwards,
Rubin wrote on Goldman Sachs stationery to former clients, including
Enron, in which he ''looked forward to continuing to work with you
in my new capacity.''
-In Aug. 1993, McLarty arranged an invitation for Lay to play golf
with Clinton in Vail, Colorado. This date irritated Oscar White, chief
executive of Coastal, another natural gas company that had helped
the Clinton election campaign raise funding. These connections to
the Democratic administration have helped Enron considerably -Ken
Silverstein Counterpunch
-Clinton officials publicly helped Enron win the contract in India
as well as in Indonesia. Enron had received U.S. government funds
to build power plants in China, the Philippines and Turkey. Enron
also won contracts in Pakistan and Russia while accompanying senior
U.S. government officials on state trips. In June 1996, four days
before India granted final approval to Enron's project, Lay's company
gave $100,000 to the DNC.
-According to the Houston Chronicle, Enron got permission to build
a pipeline from Mozambique to South Africa after National Security
Adviser Anthony Lake threatened to withhold aid to Mozambique if it
didnt approve the project.
-The bulk of Enron's alleged chicanery had to have happened during
the Clinton administration.
- Lee. P Brown (D) of Houston received $250,000 just before Enron
filed Chapter 11. Enron campaigned against the conservative candidate
for mayor.
-Kenneth Lay hired the firm of Clinton's former chief of staff Mack
McLarty.
-The Center for Responsive Politics lists Democratic Senators Chuck
Schumer of New York, John Breaux of Louisiana, and Jeff Bingaman of
New Mexico--chair of the Senate Energy Committee--among the top beneficiaries
of Enron's political donations
-Kenneth Lay retained as his top D.C. lobbyist Linda Robertson, a
Democrat who worked for the Clinton Treasury Department.
-Dynegy greased Henry Waxman's palms with thousands of dollars.
-Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee received three checks from
the Houston-based energy and trading giant totaling $100,000. Karen
Denne, an Enron spokeswoman, said the company had a record of two
checks written to the committee -- dated Sept. 24 and Nov. 2
- No. 20 on the Enron money list since 1989 is the Senate's leading
Democrat, Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
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forbes.com
But Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Michael Crapo (R-Idaho), Christopher Bond (D-Mo.), and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) also received at least $18,000 each since 1989. Schumer and Crapo serve on the Senate Banking Committee.
(KLP Note: 12 years, 1989 thru 2001=12 years times $18,000 each year = $216,000 "at least" to each of these folks from Enron......)
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Enron Shifts Cash To Democrats
Dan Ackman, Forbes.com, 12.27.01, 9:50 AM ET
NEW YORK - In the weeks before filing bankruptcy, Enron continued its usual practice of giving massive contributions to political parties--but with a twist. Historically one of the largest contributors to Republican Party coffers, Enron contributed $100,000 to Democrats, according to an Associated Press report.
Enron (nyse: ENE - news - people) gave the money to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, an organization that aids Senate Democratic candidates. But Robert Bennett, a Washington attorney representing Enron, said the contributions were business as usual, and were not intended to influence impending congressional investigations into the company's dramatic collapse.
"Donations of this type reflect certain political realities which are followed by all major corporations,'' Bennett told the Associated Press, referring to Enron's $50,000 checks issued on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26, just a week before Enron filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 2. The reality Bennett referred to was the return of Democratic control of the Senate. Many corporations, in fact, contribute to candidates and even more to political parties as such "soft money" contributions are subject to fewer regulations. But not many do it on the scale of Enron. In the 2000 election, the Houston-based company contributed more than $2.4 million in individual, soft money and political action committee (PAC) contributions to federal candidates and parties, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that tracks political contributions. The center ranked Enron among the top 50 donor organizations in the 1999-2000 election cycle.
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public-i.org
This is a chart of leading contributors to the Vice President's Residence Foundation and their donations to Vice President Gore and soft money donations to the Democratic Party.
Note: Even Enron gave Gore 10,000 here...but look at the number of donations of more than $50,000, and $100,000+!! |
