Ashcroft received illegal soft money from ENRON (big surprise, not)

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

according to OPENSECRETS.ORG Ashcroft recieved money from ENRON
via something called -

"Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal"

http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/asp/softcomp2.asp?txtName=Enron+Corp&txtUltOrg=y&txtCycle=2000&txtSort=name

" 11/1/2000 $10,000 Ashcroft Victory Cmte Non-Federal "


Common Cause brought this exact issue up during the Ashcroft Nomination in which Common Cause expressed the illegality of this
same "Ashcroft Victory Committee"

http://www.commoncause.org/publications/jan01/011601l.htm

excerpts -

His record also shows that he engaged in a major evasion of federal campaign finance laws in his Senate race last year by directly raising in his own name soft money contributions that were then channeled through national and state political party committees and spent to help his Senate campaign. This evasion resulted in the solicitation and receipt of soft money contributions from corporate interests and others with important case-specific matters pending in the Justice Department.

.....Ashcroft established for his last campaign the Ashcroft Victory Committee, a so-called joint fundraising committee with his party which was designed to raise and funnel federally illegal soft money into his 2000 Senate campaign.

The Committee raised money from sources that cannot legally support federal candidates, such as corporations, and in amounts in excess of the federal contribution limits. ......

[arcane1]

1. and he STILL lost to a dead man!

Ashcroft: LOSER!

:-)