Enron E-Mail Has DeLay in Hot Water

[G_j]

BREAKING: Enron E-Mail Has DeLay in Hot Water
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/071904Y.shtml

Enron E-Mail a Window on Political Money
By Suzanne Gamboa
The Associated Press

Sunday 18 July 2004

Washington - In only a few e-mails, Enron employees laid bare the reality of politics: the money trail from companies seeking favors from lawmakers with the power to grant them.

The e-mails circulated among Enron officials in 2000 and 2001, before the collapse of the Houston energy company, are under review by the House ethics committee, which is considering whether to investigate the fund-raising activities of the No. 2 leader in the House, Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

Enron officials map out in the e-mail how to get the most for their financial contributions, while politicians compete for credit in securing large campaign donations from the company.

The e-mails "really do pull the curtain back and give you a view of how it's done," said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political contributions and spending.
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[Cha]

1. I'm always surprised when politicians don't get

rid of those incriminating "e-mails"!

This is wonderful news and I hope it does help get tom delay out of our government.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Task force?

>>Enron officials map out in the e-mail how to get the most for their financial contributions, while politicians compete for credit in securing large campaign donations from the company.<<


Get Cheney's energy papers.. subpoena them now. This might be a good time to justify the need... not that there wasn't a good reason before this flap.

[against all enemies]

3. Delay contolled Ethics Committee investigate Delay.

Can you say white wash?

[TahitiNut]

4. Did DeLay use a GOVERNMENT email account for partisan purposes?

Throw him in jail.

[proud patriot]

5. Oh goody

:evilgrin:

[G_j]

6. Tom DeLay's Tainted Ethics Panel

http://www.alternet.org/election04/19241 /

Tom DeLay's Tainted Ethics Panel

By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet. Posted July 15, 2004.


House Majority Leader Tom DeLay faces several charges before the House ethics committee – lucky for DeLay that four of its members have taken contributions from him.

It's not easy going head-to-head with Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the most powerful member in the House, but that's exactly what Houston Democratic Congressman Chris Bell is doing. According to the Associated Press, in mid-June, Rep. Bell "claimed DeLay illegally solicited campaign contributions in return for legislative favors and laundered illegal corporate contributions for use in Texas elections. Bell also alleged that DeLay improperly used his office to solicit help from federal agencies in searching for Democratic legislators who slipped out of Texas during last year's redistricting fight."

After Republicans - with support from DeLay - took control of the Texas legislature for the first time in well over 100 years, the Texas GOP redrew the state's congressional map - a plan aimed at costing at least five Democrats their House seats in November. Democrats in the state legislature left the state to avoid voting on DeLay's redistricting plan, but eventually returned and were unable to kill the remapping effort. While they were out of state, Rep. Bell charges that delay illegally used the Federal Aviation Administration to track down the legislators.


Rep. Bell's charges are slated to be taken up by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, also known as the House ethics committee. Will Rep. Bell get a fair hearing? It might be difficult seeing as how four of the five Republicans on the committee "have received campaign contributions from DeLay's political action committee," according to Sheila Krumholz, the research director for the nonpartisan government watchdog group, the Center for Responsive Politics. She told Alternet that the four ethics committee members received $27,004 in contributions from DeLay entities.

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