Ken Lay Perp walk: Will media play Bush/Lay 12/02 Tape by Lester Holt

[papau]

1. htuttle's archives found this MSNBC tape -by Lester Holt - that I am sure NBC will show us tonight - yeah - like our media whores would ever tell the truth.

Bush/Enron Party Tape! (MSNBC clip from 12/2002) by Lester Holt about a 1997 going away party Enron held for 'a departing Enron president'. Enron employees and several Bush family members put together a video tape for the party. One good clip is Poppy Bush saying, "You have been fantastic to the Bush family. I don't think anybody did more than you did to support George..." Other highlights include Enron accounting personnel joking about 'Hypothetical Future Value' accounting.

http://www.piratevideo.tv/Real/EnronBushClip.rm
(RealPlayer, 2.1 MB, 50 seconds)

BTW, Lester notes that George W. Bush was also at the party. This 'departing former Enron President' -- wouldn't that have been Ken Lay? I notice that Lester doesn't say the person's name, but Skilling started in 1997, and didn't Skilling take over President/CEO after Ken Lay? Listening to Poppy, it sure SOUNDS like he's talking about Ken Lay...


2. Here's another Bush/Ken Lay clip from Henry Waxman's committee

Ken Lay discusses his political support of George W Bush at a 2003 Enron employee meeting.

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/video/mov_enron_clips.h...
(RealPlayer)

Direct link (about 5.4 MB)
http://www.house.gov:80/reform/min/video/mov_enron_lay_...

And some background material that will not make it into tonights 6 o'clock news!

Enron chief Ken Lay's own words and campaign contributions undercut President Bush's assertion this week that he merely inherited the energy executive's support from former Democratic Gov. Ann Richards.

Bush, seeking to distance himself from the troubled Houston energy company, said earlier this week that Lay had supported Richards against Bush in the 1994 gubernatorial race.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/business/1208785

One powerful name to keep an eye on during this energy crisis is Kenneth Lay, chairman and CEO of Texas-based Enron Corp., and a close buddy and contributor to President-elect George W. Bush.

Enron has been one of the prime movers behind California's energy deregulation and continues to be a significant player in the state as an energy marketer.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronic...

Name: Kenneth Lay
Occupation: Chair & CEO, Enron Corp.
Industry: Energy & Natural Resources
Home: Houston, Texas
1999 Salary & Perks: $42.4 Million

The $550,025 that the Enron Corp. gave Bush over the years makes it his No. 1 career patron, according to the Center for Public Integrity. “Virtually every … aspect of Enron’s operations is overseen by the federal government,” a ’96 Dallas Morning News story noted. Not surprisingly, this global natural gas giant and its top executive are big political contributors who keep revolving doors whirling. Lay hired President Bush’s cabinet members James Baker and Robert Mosbacher as they left office. After President Bush’s ’93 Gulf War victory tour of Kuwait, Baker and other members of his entourage stayed on to hustle Enron contracts. The Clinton administration also threatened to cut Mozambique’s aid in ’95 if the world’s poorest country awarded a pipeline contract to a different company. Enron got Bush to contact Texas’ congressional delegation in ’97 to promote a corporate welfare program in which U.S. taxpayers finance political risk insurance for the foreign operations of corporations such as Enron. Enron plants around Houston—which surpassed LA for the title to the nation’s worst air—are “grandfathered” air polluters that exploit a loophole in state law to avoid installing modern pollution-control technologies. Earlier this year the Houston Astros inaugurated their new Enron Field, which was financed with $180 million in public tax dollars and $100 million from Enron. In return, Enron landed tax breaks and a $200 million contract to power the stadium. Topping Enron’s political wish list in Texas was deregulation of the state’s electrical markets. Bush signed this dream into law in ’99.

http://www.tpj.org/pioneers/kenneth_lay.html

[papau]

1. Or will media play this tape from Waxman's Committee and Ken Lay

Here's another Bush/Ken Lay clip from Henry Waxman's committee

Ken Lay discusses his political support of George W Bush at a 2003 Enron employee meeting.

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/video/mov_enron_clips.h ...
(RealPlayer)

Direct link (about 5.4 MB)
http://www.house.gov:80/reform/min/video/mov_enron_lay_ ...

[htuttle]

3. Those links are truncated

Here's the complete URLs:
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/video/mov_enron_clips.htm
http://www.house.gov/reform/min/video/mov_enron_lay_bush.rm

[htuttle]

2. Sounds like a job for Keith Olbermann!

He should be able to get the whole Enron Party tape from the MSNBC archives.

Has anyone ever written to him?

[Cocoa]

4. Michael Moore will have to make another movie

give the media a little push, like with Pet Goat, AWOL, and Flight of the Saudis.