{"article":{"id":13523,"heading":"Bush - Enron Connections Exposed","author":"jonathan","created":"2001-12-12 16:36:43","modified":"2001-12-12 17:00:01","last_modified":"Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:00:01","article":"
''Enron is Whitewater in spades. This isn't just some rinky-dink land investment like the one dredged up by right-wing enemies to haunt the Clinton White House--but rather it has the makings of the greatest presidential scandal since the Teapot Dome.



The Bush administration has a long and intimate relationship with Enron, whose much-discredited chairman, Kenneth L. Lay, was a primary financial backer of George W. Bush's rise to the presidency.

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Bush should be called as a witness in the congressional hearings<\/b> scheduled to unravel this mess. One thing that should come up in the hearings is then-Gov. Bush's October 1997 telephone call on behalf of Lay to then-Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to help Enron crack into the tightly regulated Pennsylvania electricity market.

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\"I called George W. to kind of tell him what was going on,\" Lay told the New York Times about the 1997 phone call, \"and I said that it would be very helpful to Enron, which is obviously a large company in the state of Texas, if he could just call the governor [of Pennsylvania] and tell him [Enron] is a serious company, this is a professional company, a good company.\"

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That Lay was instrumental in Bush's rise to the presidency is indisputable. Since 1993, Lay and top Enron executives donated nearly $2 million to Bush. Lay also personally donated $326,000 in soft money to the Republican Party<\/b> in the three years prior to Bush's presidential bid, and he was one of the Republican \"pioneers\" who raised $100,000 in smaller contributions for Bush. Lay's wife donated $100,000 for inauguration festivities.''<\/p>

- Robert Scheer, LA Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>





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