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Whatever Bush may have thought of Lay, there's no doubt that each was useful to the other. As a free-market conservative, Bush championed causes dear to Lay's heart: energy deregulation and tort reform. And Enron has been Bush's largest campaign donor. Lay hired James Baker and Robert Mosbacher, prominent members of the first Bush Administration, after they left office. During George W.'s run for the White House, the candidate's staff and family used Enron jets 14 times (though Bush himself never...
...Enron's markets. Pat Wood, whose name was on the list Lay gave the White House, is a respected former Texas regulator who has been backed by Enron since the early 1990s. The company first warmed to him because of his support for deregulation. Last week Lay's 1994 "Dear George" letter endorsing Wood was made public. After receiving the letter, Bush appointed Wood to the Texas Public Utility Commission. To Enron's delight, Wood spent much of his tenure deregulating electricity, though not always in the way the company wanted...
...Dear Ariel...
...He’s a dear boy and I know his family and his great-grandparents but he is not related to me,” Rev. Gomes said yesterday. “Not that that makes much difference to me, I care very much...
...know what the Beanpot is. So it’s up to the returners to make them realize that this is huge not only for our school, not for our team, but for the whole city. To be the Beanpot champs is definitely something you really want to hold dear to the team,” Hagerman said...