03-03-2002, 11:42 PM
(From the New Yorker, 3/4/02)
"Which Enron-related whopper did George W. Bush tell?"
a) He claimed that Kenneth Lay "was a supporter of Ann Richards" in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race, although Lay gave a great deal more money to Bush and even endorsed him.
b) He implied that Lay was a Richards-administration holdover whom he first "got to know" after being elected governor, although the two had worked together on the 1992 Republican Convention.
c) He expressed outrage that his own mother-in-law brought eight thousand dollars' worth of Enron stock "last summer," when she actually purchased it in 1999.
"Which Enron-related whopper did George W. Bush tell?"
a) He claimed that Kenneth Lay "was a supporter of Ann Richards" in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race, although Lay gave a great deal more money to Bush and even endorsed him.
b) He implied that Lay was a Richards-administration holdover whom he first "got to know" after being elected governor, although the two had worked together on the 1992 Republican Convention.
c) He expressed outrage that his own mother-in-law brought eight thousand dollars' worth of Enron stock "last summer," when she actually purchased it in 1999.