Enron slipping off the top 100 campaign contributors of all time

Posted Jan 21st 2009 11:45AM by Zac Bissonnette
Filed under: Bad News, Scandals

While former CEOs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling decompose and pursue appeals respectively, Enron Corp. is sliding off the list of the top 100 campaign contributors of all-time. The 2008 numbers are tallied and Enron has slipped to number 98.

But here's what's pretty impressive: Enron has not given a nickel since the 2002 election cycle and has been in the top 100 campaign contributors since 1989, which is when the data started being collected. The company's influence peaked in the 2000 election where the company gave $1.8 million to Republicans and $0.7 million to Democrats.

Some other notables on the all-time list:

That National Association of Realtors is number 3. Does that make you question the policies that led to the surge in home prices in the first part of the decade? It should.
Citigroup (NYSE: C) recently received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer help: and is the 15th biggest contributor of all-time. Just saying. . . In case you're wondering, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is number 40 and General Motors (NYSE: GM) is number 73.
Amway -- whose business model is controversial -- is number 90.

I'm a little bit sad to see Enron fading out of the Hot 100. Maybe someone should resuscitate the name and send in some cash, just to keep it alive as a symbol of in the intersection of fraud and campaign finance.

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1-23-2009 @ 3:25PM

Kelley said...

Honestly, Peter do some research in regards to Lay and Skilling. Your convictions are appalling. Why don't you read Kurt Eichenwald's very detailed work with Enron and get a clue.