A letter to the editor
What is so negative about collecting special interest money to bring jobs and investment to the state from which you serve? Isn’t that what Senators are suppose to do. Isn’t that why we have a big dome in Washington called the Capital building?
What’s really strange is Bush’s attacks on Kerry’s so called special interest. Or did Karl Rove, Bush’s number one political adviser forget to check George Bush’s number one special interest donor? In fact, that donor has given more money to the Bush campaign alone than Kerry’s entire 32 years of special interest donations.
Well, it turns out that this number one Bush donor just happens to be, Enron. Enron represents the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history. Enron is also responsible for squandering away over 1 billion dollars, virtually all of it’s employee 401K retirement plans. Some 20,000 workers, many of whom never worked for Enron until their utility companies were bought out by Enron lost their life savings in the blink of an eye. One may argue that Bush’s political financing was provided by the retirement accounts of these unfortunate employees.
So… “When the Democrats try to tie Bush to Enron, his No. 1 campaign contributor (executives from that single company gave the president as much as Kerry has received from all lobbyists in his entire career)”, people have a hard time buying Bush’s whole John Kerry, the monster special interest, influenced politician. What the people see instead is Jeffrey Skilling, former CEO of Enron, “led away in handcuffs. In that context, Kerry's line about "Benedict Arnold CEOs" works just fine.”
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