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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (285853)	8/12/2002 12:43:25 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

re:"He was close politically and personally with Ken Lay while governor, gave Lay great access to the White House transition, let him help pick the head of the FERC, and Bush appointed many Enron execs to his administration." It is true that Lay was in favor of the appointment of the current head of the FERC. You fail to mention that Governor Gray Davis was also in favor of the appointment of the current head of the FERC. You fail to mention that George Bush's appointees to the FERC were not sworn in till May/June of 2001. You fail to mention that their first votes was to initiate the price caps the the industry is currently operating under (and that Gray Davis wishes continued). re:"So it would seem that either Bush was in on it with Lay or possibly just oblivious, inattentive and easily duped." You fail to mention that until June of 2001, the FERC were ALL Clinton appointees, and that there was a Democrat majority of the FERC till June of 2001. You fail to mention, those actions that the Clinton Administration did to help California...You can't because even Gray Davis claims that President Bush (43) helped California much more than President Clinton (42).