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To: tejek who wrote (149030)	8/2/2002 8:34:10 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573927

There can be no reasonable discussion; everything is either black or white. Oh, yeh, like YOU'RE the voice of "reasonable discussion". You are so mired down in your liberalism and trying to cover for the sleeze and corruption in the Democrat party there no circumstances where you can see the good in anyone who isn't a liberal. It is sleezy. When I WAS a liberal, I wouldn't have been associated with the pure meanness and hatred that engulfs you. People were decent to one another, did not use personal attacks against others to achieve their political ends, and had a degree of respect. Your party has now come to represent the worst American society has to offer. Tearing other, decent people down in an effort to make yourselves look less sickening. So you attack the "trailer park trash"; you attack the Kathryn Harris, as woman obviously just trying to do her job as best she can. Say what you will about me and other conservatives, but we sleep at night. It is a little difficult for me to believe you do.

To: tejek who wrote (149030)	8/3/2002 7:52:04 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1573927

Lieberman Can't Recall Citigroup Contributions Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman said Friday that he couldn't remember the exact amount of campaign cash he'd accepted over the years from Citigroup, whose chairman Robert Rubin he has yet to call to testify before his Enrongate probe. During an interview with radio host Don Imus, the Connecticut Democrat acknowledged accepting $2,000 in contributions from Enron, prompting this exchange: IMUS: Well, what did you get from Citigroup? LIEBERMAN: More, but I couldn't tell you the amount. IMUS: Was it, like, $10,000? LIEBERMAN: Ah - I honestly don't know. I'd say it was ... IMUS: How about a million? LIEBERMAN: Oh, no. It was definitely somewhere between $10,000 and ... IMUS: Was it a million and a babe? LIEBERMAN: (Laughing) A million and naming rights for some building here on my compound. (End of Excerpt) In fact, over the past six years, Citigroup gave Lieberman $59,256, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The hefty sum makes Robert Rubin's firm by far the single largest contributor to the Connecticut Democrat's campaign coffers since 1996. Asked whether Rubin will be appearing before his committee, Lieberman said he hadn't made a final decision. "My intention is to end these hearings in September or October," he told Imus, indicating that if Rubin was called it would be before the November election. When pressed on why he refused to commit to calling Rubin, Lieberman protested, "Hey, this is not political." The response prompted audible guffaws from Imus and his crew.