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...Karl Rove did land an Enron consulting job for Ralph Reed, one thing is certain: Reed didn't really need his help. Reed's choirboy looks notwithstanding, he was no neophyte trying to get into the business. By the time he stepped down as executive director of the Christian Coalition in April 1997, Reed, now 40, was considered such a shrewd political operator and grass-roots organizer that any number of FORTUNE 500 firms were knocking on his door...
...answer may have been to have Reed play an informal, behind-the-scenes role in the campaign while earning a tidy sum working for one of Bush's most dedicated supporters. Late last week the White House confirmed that Rove did indeed recommend Reed to officials at Enron in 1997. Both Reed and Rove, however, vehemently deny that this was part of any kind of deal to secure Reed's backing. Reed insists he was not even aware that Rove had put in a good word for him and claims that he had pledged his support to Bush...
...executive who left Enron last May, was found dead in his Mercedes-Benz in the median of a divided highway in the fancy Houston suburb of Sugar Land--an apparent suicide. That same day, as if on cue, the White House acknowledged that Bush's top political strategist, Karl Rove, had recommended that Enron hire a key G.O.P. consultant during the early days of Bush's presidential campaign five years...
...None of these plot twists brought the story into the West Wing until the New York Times reported last week that conservative strategist Ralph Reed had received a $10,000-a-month consulting contract from Enron in 1997 with a little push from Rove, who was political adviser to then Governor Bush. Like so much about Enron's business practices, it is unlikely that such an arrangement would have been illegal. But the timing of Reed's Enron work had people who know about the finances of fledgling presidential campaigns clucking. A powerful force among Christian conservatives in the late...
...Democrats termed the disclosure serious and promised to investigate. Reed, a political consultant in Georgia, points out that Enron tried to hire a Democrat, James Carville, for the same work in 1997--something Carville, no friend of Rove's, acknowledges. And Rove told Time that if he spoke to anyone at Enron about Reed, it might have been only after Reed was hired. An Enron official, meanwhile, who says he and two others made the decision themselves, told TIME they had no contact with Rove about the matter. But a veteran G.O.P. organizer who was in contact with Reed...