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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2001
Enron Pays Dems, Hires Clinton Lawyer
Failed energy giant Enron Corp. has hired the attorney who represented Bill Clinton against sexual harassment victim Paula Jones, and a week before filing for bankruptcy protection the company gave $100,000 to the Democrats, the Associated Press reported today.
"Donations of this type reflect certain political realities which are followed by all major corporations," lawyer Robert Bennett huffed today in explaining Enron's $50,000 checks on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Republicans and Democrats alike have blasted Enron fat cats for living on cream while burning stockholders, tossing thousands of people out of work and trashing retirement accounts.
Bennett is shocked - shocked - that anyone might see a connection between congressional inquiries and the payments - oops, donations.
"It is very unfair to draw any improper motive based on these contributions," he bristled. "While the money was given in November, a large portion of it had been committed as far back as September."
And while the media have portrayed Enron as strictly a GOP outfit, much as crooked unions and anti-prosperity enviros are the Dems' property, since 1989 Enron has given more than a fourth of its $5.8 million in campaign contributions to Democrats, according to AP.
The Dems claim they won't keep the latest $100,000, but they're being vague about where it will go. Tovah Ravitz-Meehan, a mouthpiece for the Democrats' Senate fund-raising committee, said the head of the group, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., wants Enron's money to be given to a charity - so far not specified - helping canned Enron workers.
"It wasn't right to keep it, and it wasn't right to give it back to Enron, so we're looking for charitable options," Ravitz-Meehan insisted.
Seeing as how Bennett is involved, perhaps some of the money should go to a fund helping the many women who have been sexually assaulted by a certain morals-free ex-president.
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