PS, Bird...just to demonstrate how flawed your new attachment rules are, Ken Lay was never involved in anything illegal related to politics. His contributions to both parties have never been challenged as such. Your offering here libels the man. Secondly, he died before sentencing, thereby requiring the vacating of his conviction as if he had never been indicted, tried, or convicted. Those are automatic federal court rules.
Your error is in even mentioning Lay within the political scandal posts. This is one example of how skewed you are trying to make this.
Hi BigBrother
You're a tenatious cuss. It is so comical how some keep adding to and taking away from what was originally stated. First, I merely said I was always told that the republicans had scandaled 3-1 over Democrats. The pointed research I have been trying to complete proves only one thing. That I didn't know if that was a true statement and more importantly still, that I too would like to know if there really is such a large divide on either side. I admit,I am no expert and that I really didn't know IF what I was always told is true. So that aside, we still have to deal with the other fact that I simply said political scandal. Never once did I say that I heard that there were 3-1 criminals. Should scandals become crimes, well that's another matter and since it was either you or Old Fox that suggested that criminal aspect be for another time, I agreed. All I ever did was ask and didn't get an answer regarding the particulars, so then it was decide that as per the original claim of 3-1 in political scandals, that was fine. Now for Ken Lay. I really wish you had done your own research there. I thought we were only interested in scandal? So as I still stated, Ken Lay was involved heavily in political scandal and you should already know this. But since you'd rather I unload that knowledge here by your denial:::
August 15th, 2001 "Kenny Boy" Bush' pet name for long time oil buddy Lay, sent his lobbyist Pat Shortridge to meet with Bush' Economic Adviser Robert McNally, one day after Skilling' shocking announcement that he was stepping down, asking McNally to garner through the president, a massive bailout of Enron so 50,000 employees wouldn't be tossed out without a penny. Or that Bush used Lay's private jet to rally in Florida during the 2000 election fray. Or the one million dollars that Lay invested in Bush' campaign. Or that in 2002, Ann Womack pointed out that the white-house finally acknowledged Shortridge and McNally's secret meetings, in 1000's of documents finally released. Well after Bush refused to answer questions regarding what he knew and what contact he had with Lay over the eminent Enron collaps. Lindsay was paid 50,000.00 consultants fee in 2000 before Bush appointment. Or that on January 8, 2001 Lay recommended 7 candidates to be appointed to Bush' Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and that 2 of the 7 were appointed by Bush, Pat Wood and Nora Brown. Wood was appointed to Chairman of the FERC.::: Now if that doesn't stink to the highest reaches of heaven :::of political scandal::: sir, then there is no such thing. Oh yeah, With all due respect:::I didn't write the dictionary, and no matter what dictionary you look up scandal within, it's meaning is the same. I always said scandal, not arrests, indictments, trials, convictions, sentences nor prison terms, scandal. S-C-A-N-D-A-L. Check it yourself if you need to. It seems you are pushing the content of mallory's information into my quest. But soon, soon. Jeez now me eyes are sore again.
Lucy
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