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Non-Tech : The ENRON Scandal -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (1048)	1/23/2002 4:40:54 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

This is not an us versus them issue. But it seems true that it was a Republican effort, not without the help of some of the older Democrats, I am sure, who BURIED Campaign Finance Reform this time. But to try to deal in personalities is just another smokescreen, student body left, attempt to re-bury the issue by you.

To: Logain Ablar who wrote (1048)	1/23/2002 4:41:02 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5185

Actually, the first person to have Lay over was George Bush elder: Political giving helped fuel Enron's growth, clout BY DAN MORGAN AND JULIET EILPERIN Washington Post Service WASHINGTON -- During the administration of the first President George Bush, a new party fundraiser named Kenneth Lay was invited to spend the night at the White House. The sleepover was an early coup for Lay, the chairman of Enron Corp., and a harbinger of things to come. During the next decade, Lay and Enron poured millions of dollars into U.S. politics, cultivating unequaled access and using the entree to lobby Congress, the White House and regulatory agencies for action that was critical to the energy company's spectacular growth. Now, with Enron's sudden bankruptcy, public attention has turned not only to the financial practices that brought the company down, but to what its far-flung political operations say about the country's campaign finance system