Just for grins I typed Bill Clinton into a search engine on the Internet and asked it to find sites that include the word Enron. What a fascinating batch of stuff I found. Seems buying influence is a longstanding tradition at Enron. The Center for Public Integrity is a watchdog group the keeps track of the activities of public officials. Their site offered up the following: "Kenneth Lay, chairman and chief executive officer of Enron Corp., accompanied Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown on a trade mission to India in January 1995. "While in India, Enron signed a contract for a 2,000-megawatt power plant in Dahbol worth an estimated $400 million.Enron also won a contract to build a $920-million power plant on the west coast of India and a $1.1-billion contract for offshore gas and oil production. "Rodney L.Gray, chairman and chief executive officer of Enron International, accompanied Brown on a trade mission to Russia in March and April of 1994.
GARY GERARD, Times-Union Managing Editor- | July 28, 2016