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BUSH'S BIG LIE
Caught Red-Handed in Lie to American People!
Will the News Media Wake UP??!

Yesterday, in his press appearance about Enron, George W. Bush stated flatly that Kenneth Lay, CEO of the bankrupt Enron Corporation, supported his opponent, Ann Richards, in the 1994 Texas governor's race, and that he, Bush, only got to know Lay after that election.

But easily obtained reports and records directly contradict Bush's statements. The sources for this information are the Federal Election Commission, the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Responsive Politics, Newsweek, the Boston Globe, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the New Yorker, and the Nation.

These reports show that Dubya and Lay go back a very long time.
Lay contributed handsomely to Bush's 1978 congressional campaign: a full SIXTEEN YEARS before Bush told the press he got to know the man.

Enron and the families of its top executives donated at least $100,000 to Dubya's gubernatorial campaign in 1994 -- the year, Bush told the press, that Lay supposedly supported Ann Richards. Although Lay may have given money to Richards, he strongly supported Dubya.
Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, is an old friend and financial beneficiary of Kenneth Lay.

After the 1992 election left Secretary of State and Secretary of Commerce (and Bush pals) James Baker and Robert Mossbacher jobless, they signed as consultants for Enron.

An article by Seymour Hersh in 1993 disclosed that Neil Bush, another presidential son (hard to keep up with all the members of the Bush Crime Family: Neil is the one cited by federal regulators for conflict-of-interest violations regarding a failed savings and loan), had attempted to do business with Enron in Kuwait.

Yesterday, Bush sat in the White House and told the American people, in effect, "I had no relationship with that man, Mr. Lay before I became governor in 1995. He was a supporter of my opponent in 1994."
OK, news media: will you call Bush and Ari Fleischer on this outrageous lie? Or will you sweep it under the rug?

Yet more evidence of corruption in the Bush administration:

Abraham got thousands from nuke biz:

While it will be at least a decade -- if then -- before radioactive waste begins pouring into Nevada's Yucca Mountain, the Department of Energy's decision to recommend the site is a big victory for the nuclear power industry.

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Thursday he plans to formally recommend the Silver State site as a new federal repository for nuclear waste -- delighting plant operators and infuriating Nevada businesses, politicians and environmentalists. ...
But get this.

Abraham received thousands of dollars in contributions from the industry in his campaign for reelection to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 2000. In addition to NEI's $4,000, private nuclear-plant operators DTE Energy with $5,000, Exelon at $2,000, Constellation $2,000, and FirstEnergy also $2,000, ponied up for his failed bid.

Abraham also accepted at least $9,500 from energy-trading company Enron between February of 1999 and October 2000.

Although Attorney General John Ashcroft recently recused himself from involvement in the criminal probe of Enron because he had accepted over $50,000 of the company's money in the past, Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Department of Energy, insisted that Abraham has no such conflict. :hippie: