Enroning Lamont

Daily Kos: Enron Lobbyist Corralling Senate Dem Support for Lieberman: "The Hill Newspaper reports that Enron lobbyist Michael Lewan, Joe Lieberman's former chief of staff, is 'work[ing] to quell Democratic discontent with Lieberman and to steer [Senators] away from campaigning against his former boss.' Lewan has simultaneously raised cash for Lieberman and for now-convicted Connecticut Republican Gov. John Rowland, telling the Hartford Courant at the time that 'they are two like-minded guys' and that his job for both men is to 'collect checks and pass them along.' Lewan also recently held a lobbyist-sponsored D.C. fundraiser for Lieberman, Lewan breathlessly begging his fellow influence peddlers to give more cash to Lieberman. 'The Washington lawyers and lobbyists in those rooms will come back for Joe Lieberman,' he said. 'Who knows what Lamont would be like?'

Lewan's loyalty is understandable - as the Washington Monthly reported, Lieberman obediently 'balked' at Democratic demands to use his committee chairmanship to intensify the Enron investigation. What is surprising and nauseating is that Lieberman's Enron lobbyist has any influence over other Democrats. . ."

Most interesting. . .