posted on February 17, 2002 05:49:08 AM new
From today's Washington Post:
"Just before the last presidential election, Bush campaign adviser Ralph Reed offered to help Enron Corp. deregulate the electricity industry by working his "good friends" in Washington and by mobilizing religious leaders and pro-family groups for the cause.
For a $380,000 fee, the conservative political strategist proposed a broad lobbying strategy that included using major campaign contributors, conservative talk shows and nonprofits to press Congress for favorable legislation. Reed said he could place letters from community leaders in the opinion pages of major newspapers, producing clips that Reed would "blast fax" to Capitol Hill."
posted on February 19, 2002 09:50:20 AM new
Speaking of slimy-slick, we have to include Pat Robertson, Reed's mentor.
Robinson used his tax exempt religious status to develope content to build a TV satelite network and sold it and now he and his family are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Reed's comment on the notion that the ideas that are heard are the ones that win is also an indictment of our free speech doctrines in the present debate over campaign contributions.
