JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, moving on, President Bush claiming, saying that Enron supported Ann Richards when they ran against each other for governor back in 1994.
ROBERT NOVAK, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: This is a wonderful little story. He said that. He said Ken Lay was a Richards man. Now, Democrats just got enraged. They said she never got any support from Ken Lay. Ken Lay was with Bush. It took a little checking.
What it turns out, guess what? Ken Lay supported them both in 1994. He gave $25,000 to George W. Bush and $12,500 to the Democrat, Governor Ann Richards, a typical Enron-Ken Lay thing. He's not a Republican. He's not an ideologue. He was an operator. But some people think that George Bush probably made a mistake in really tossing Ann Richards into the Enron lap when Enron was supporting both of them.
WOODRUFF: Well, gave more to Bush, but gave to both.
NOVAK: Gave to both. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/15/lt.29.htmlwhat Novak fails to mention is that his wife also gave $22,500 during that campaign, and that Enron's PAC, and executives gave another $99,000.
and here's the BEST part, in Lay's own words, via Frontline:
“When Governor Bush, now President Bush, decided to run for the governor’s spot,
a little difficult situation. I’d worked very closely with Ann Richards also, the four years she was governor. But I was very close to George W. and had a lot of respect for him, had watched him over the years, particularly with reference to dealing with his father when his father was in the White House and some of the things he did to work for his father, and so did support him.”
http://www.tpj.org/press_releases/enron.html
now that was HARD work
HARD!
took me all of five seconds to type the words "Lay supported Richards against Bush" and find those two sites on google
can I be a journalist some day?
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