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The
Corporate Reform Weekly
Vol
V #23, June 5, 2006
In
This Issue…
Lobbying
and ethics reform
1.
Safavian trial continues
2.
Will lobbying reform die in committee?
Scandal
3.
Jury convicts one Enron Broadband executive, acquits another
4.
Enron’s law firm may finally get its comeuppance
Corporate
Social Responsibility
5.
Consumers want companies to treat workers better
Executive
Pay
6.
More evidence of executive pay not linked to performance
This
Week’s Action Item:
Keep
Pushing for Clean Elections
Lobbying
and ethics reform
1.
Safavian trial continues
The trial of
David Safavian, the former General Services Administration chief of staff
charged with repeatedly lying to investigators looking into the doings of his
friend Jack Abramoff, continued last week. Safavian, who went to Scotland on a
2002 golf trip sponsored by Abramoff, initially told investigators that
Abramoff had no business before the GSA.
As the White
House’s chief procurement officer, Safavian was in charge of the purchasing and
leasing of government property, and Abramoff was allegedly looking to buy some
government properties, one of which he wanted to use for a luxury hotel,
working with his tribal clients on the deal.
Last week,
prosecutors confronted Safavian about the now-famous Scotland golf trip that
Abramoff organized and which Safavian attended. Under questioning, Safavian
said “it never occurred to me” that the $3,100 he paid Abramoff only covered
about a fifth of the trip’s cost, even though everything was top of the line,
including private jet service. Safavian told jurors that he thought a round of
golf at St. Andres (the birthplace of golf) was “comparable” to the $135 a
round he paid in Maryland. When the prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg pointed out that
a typical caddie tip at St. Andrews was $100, Safavian said that Zeidenberg
made a “valid point.”
Safavian
insisted that he provided advice to Abramoff only out of friendship, but that
he never abused his powers as chief procurement officer because sales of
government properties were not under his bailiwick --"There was no action
I could have taken to help Mr. Abramoff," Safavian said. Safavian also
called Abramoff a "friend and, dare I say, mentor."
But
prosecutors noted that Safavian did arrange key meetings for Abramoff and GSA
officials right before the Scotland trip, and showed jurors e-mails documenting
Safavian helping Abramoff gather information about the properties in question.
Also last week
in court, GSA lawyer Eugenia Ellison testified that had she known Safavian was
advising Abramoff, she probably wouldn’t have okayed his golf vacation. In
general, individuals with business before administrative agencies are not
allowed to give gifts to agency officials.
For more, see:
“Safavian Defends Abramoff Dealings,”
By Jeffrey H.
Birnbaum, Washington Post
“Ex-White
House Aide Denies Lying About Ethics Issue
By PHILIP SHENON:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/washington/03safavian.html
“Safavian Said
Not Forthcoming on Lobbyist,” By PETE YOST, Associated Press:
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/05/31/national/w165523D01.DTL
2.
Will lobbying reform die in committee?
It has now
been more than a month since the House passed a weak lobbying reform, and the
House-Senate conference to reconcile the House and Senate lobbying reform bills
has not even gotten underway. Now, there is beginning to be some speculation in
Washington that lobbying reform may not even get enacted into law.
Jeffrey
Birnbaum of the Washington
Post reports that:
“Nearly six
months after Abramoff's guilty plea stirred a "crisis" that made a
lobbying bill a must, the House-Senate conference committee charged with
drafting the final compromise has not even met. That's how little Congress
cares about the issue.”
“The Senate
passed its ethics bill March 29. The House passed its weaker version May 3. The
Senate has named conferees, but the House left town for a 10-day break without
appointing negotiators, which means Congress will have a hard time passing any
lobbying law changes by the Fourth of July, if then.”
“Another piece
of evidence along these lines is the lack of genuine movement by the ethics
committees. The Senate's panel beat back a bipartisan effort to create an
independent Office of Public Integrity to police ethics rules on Capitol Hill
by arguing that the ethics panel is already doing an excellent job.”
“At the same
time, the committee is proudly ignoring the Senate's biggest ethical problem:
the federal probe into whether the Senate's top Republican, Bill Frist of
Tennessee, sold shares in his family's hospital company after receiving an
insider's tip. How can the panel stand down on that one? Its members say it
doesn't investigate accusations that federal agencies are already looking
into.”
Now is a great
time to let your members of Congress know that you are not satisfied with their
efforts to tackle lobbying reform and will not be satisfied until they enact
full public funding of elections. For more, see this week’s action item.
For the full
story, see: “Wave of Corruption Fails to Move Congress to Act on Ethics
Legislation,” By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800795.html
Scandal
3.
Jury convicts one Enron Broadband executive, acquits another
One week after
one federal jury in Houston convicted Enron founder Kenneth Lay and
former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, another federal jury in Houston convicted another
Enron executive, former Enron Broadband CFO Kevin A. Howard, of fraud,
conspiracy, and falsifying records.
But jurors did
acquit a second executive, former Enron Broadband accountant Michael W. Krautz,
on those same charges.
Prosecutors
had argued that that Enron Broadband pulled off a $111 million accounting fraud
that included a phony sale of part of a video-on-demand service that was
failing. The deal, known as “Braveheart,” allowed the division to meet earnings
targets
Defense
lawyers argued that Howard and Krautz were unaware of criminal activity and
that all the deals were blessed by outside lawyers and accountants.
For more, see:
“One Guilty and One Acquitted in Enron Broadband Trial,” By KATE MURPHY
“THE ENRON
BROADBAND TRIAL” By JOHN C. ROPER and TOM FOWLER of the Houston Chronicle
This article is:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/broadband/3919024.html
4.
Enron’s law firm may finally get its comeuppance
With Jeff
Skilling and Kenneth Lay convicted of their role in Enron’s massive fraud,
attention may now focus to the role of Enron’s outside law firm, Vinson &
Elkins, which so far has not been formally implicated, but is alleged to have
played a central advising role in the company’s massive fraud.
Business
Week reports that now
that Vinson & Elkins has reached a bankruptcy settlement with
Enron, “The legal filing will shed light on one of the last
remaining mysteries in the Enron drama: the role played by the company's main
outside law firm. Were V&E's lawyers co-conspirators? Or were they merely
scribes who unknowingly drafted documents that helped Enron fleece its
shareholders? These questions have been hard to answer because only a small
portion of V&E's handiwork has been made public. The firm insists it did
nothing wrong and has long maintained that its attorneys played no role in
helping Lay, Skilling & Co. perpetrate the most sweeping corporate fraud in
recent history.”
“But documents
and transcripts…indicate that V&E attorneys had doubts about the legitimacy
of Enron's business practices. Sometimes they even made light of the company's
aggressive accounting….V&E also played a critical role in helping the
energy company complete a series of complex transactions designed to generate
cash from the sale of otherwise illiquid assets.”
For more, see:
“Enron's Last Mystery: Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as
blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains?”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988056.htm
Corporate
Social Responsibility
5.
Consumers want companies to treat workers better
Companies that
want to be socially responsible should pay their workers more, according to
three-quarters of people surveyed recently by National Consumers League and
Fleishman-Hillard. And when asked to defined “corporate social responsibility”
in their own words, 27 percent of people in the survey said it meant a
commitment to the well-being of its employees. By contrast, only 3 percent said
that charitable contributions were a good indicator of corporate social
responsibility.
Two in three
people also said that they considered corporate social responsibility when
deciding which products to purchase. And 80 percent of people that it is
“extremely" or "very" important to work for a company that shares
their values.
Additionally,
the survey found that just 30 percent of people think that companies are doing
a better job with corporate social responsibility now than they were two or
three years ago. Additionally, almost half of the respondents say they use the
Internet to conduct their own research on companies. On a scale of 1 to 5 (1
being poor and 5 being excellent), just 21 percent of consumers gave companies
a 4 or 5, while 34 percent gave companies a 1 or a 2.
For more, see:
“Corporate Conscience Survey Says Workers Should Come First,”
By STEPHANIE
STROM of the New York Times:
“Want to be
seen as a responsible company? Then treat your workers well,”
http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=research&id=3271
Executive
Pay
6.
More evidence of executive pay not linked to performance
Gretchen
Morgenson of the New
York Times has found yet
more evidence of corporations finding ways to give executives out-of-control
pay packages even when companies fail to meet earnings targets or share price
goals.
Morgenson
reports that:
“As executive
pay packages have rocketed in recent years, their defenders have contended that
because most are tied to company performance, they are both earned and
deserved. But as the Las Vegas Sands example shows, investors who plow through
company filings often find that executive compensation exceeds the amounts
allowed under the performance targets set by the directors.”
“Executives of
companies as varied as Halliburton,
the military contractor and oil services concern; Assurant, an insurance
company; and Big Lots,
a discount retailer, all received bonuses and other pay outside the performance
parameters set by the boards of those companies. It is the equivalent of moving
the goalposts to shorten the field, compensation experts say. Some employment
agreements actually stipulate that they will provide bonuses even if company
performance declines.”
“While bonus
and other incentive pay figures are included in company filings, shareholders
hoping to calculate precisely what performance objectives executives must meet
to receive such pay can be confounded. Descriptions of bonus targets are
typically vague and often include a laundry list of measures that the board may
or may not consider. The board may factor in sales, earnings, stock price,
capital expenditures, cash flow, even inventory levels. Company officials often
explain the practice by saying that too-specific information on performance
hurdles can give away corporate secrets or invite rival organizations to lure
executives away by offering them contract terms that are easier to achieve.
Compensation experts counter that lists of vague hurdles may allow carefully
chosen measurements to be met in both fair weather and foul.”
For the full
story, see: “GILDED PAYCHECKS, REWARDS, GUARANTEED: Big Bonuses Still Flow,
Even if Bosses Miss Goals,” By GRETCHEN
MORGENSON of the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/business/01bonus.html
This
Week’s Action Item:
Keep
Pushing for Clean Elections
While
lobbying reform stalls in a conference committee, bribery and corrupt scandals
continue to dominate the headlines, ensuring there will be another opportunity
for Congress to revisit the issue. That’s why it’s important to keep pushing
for full public funding of elections so that when lobbying reform comes up
again, there will be real momentum for real campaign finance reform.
Already
seven states and two cities have passed Clean Election campaign reform. But if
we’re going to clean up Washington, we need for Congress to pass such a reform.
Let’s keep the pressure on.
As this week’s
Action Item, please either contact your members of Congress directly about the
importance of Clean Elections, or at least sign Public Campaign’s petition
demanding clean elections at: http://ga3.org/campaign/CleanElectionsA
Help
spread the word about The People's Business
We encourage
you to tell everyone you know about the Citizen Works book, The People's
Business and to distribute promotional flyers locally. Flyers are available
online, or if you would like to have some flyers mailed to you, please e-mail news@citizenworks.org.
The People's
Business, which is available in stores everywhere, examines the very nature of
corporate power, presenting a range of strategies to curtail it, explaining how
ordinary people can restore citizen control. Bringing together the recommendations
of the Citizen Works Corporate Reform Commission—a coalition of leading
authors, activists, scholars, and professionals—The People's Business is a
vital, clearheaded plan for strengthening individual rights, transforming
corporations into engines of public prosperity, and creating a sustainable,
life-respecting society where the people have the power.
Bolstered with
relevant history and examples, The People's Business is a lively book that will
appeal both to deeply-committed long-time activists looking for a coherent
approach in the struggle for corporate accountability as well as thoughtful
citizens everywhere who may be looking for immediate measures that serve as
effective means of corporate reform.
It is our hope
that The People's Business will serve as an important tool in educating people
about what they can do to challenge corporate power. But it will only be an
important tool if people actually read it. That's why we need your help in
spreading the word!
Why not pick
up your copy at a bookstore today if you haven't already?
MAKE YOUR
VOICE HEARD
* White House Comment Line: 202.456.1111
* White House Fax Line: 202.456.2461
* E-mail President George W. Bush
* E-mail Vice President Dick Cheney
* White House Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500
* US Capitol Switchboard: 202.224.3121
*
Contact your senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
· Contact your congressional
representative: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
To
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Questions,
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The
Corporate Reform Weekly
Vol V
#23, June 5, 2006
In
This Issue…
Lobbying and
ethics reform
1.
Safavian trial continues
2. Will
lobbying reform die in committee?
Scandal
3. Jury
convicts one Enron Broadband executive, acquits another
4. Enron’s law
firm may finally get its comeuppance
Corporate
Social Responsibility
5. Consumers
want companies to treat workers better
Executive Pay
6. More
evidence of executive pay not linked to performance
This
Week’s Action Item:
Keep Pushing
for Clean Elections
Lobbying and
ethics reform
1.
Safavian trial continues
The trial of
David Safavian, the former General Services Administration chief of staff
charged with repeatedly lying to investigators looking into the doings of his
friend Jack Abramoff, continued last week. Safavian, who went to Scotland on a
2002 golf trip sponsored by Abramoff, initially told investigators that
Abramoff had no business before the GSA.
As the White
House’s chief procurement officer, Safavian was in charge of the purchasing and
leasing of government property, and Abramoff was allegedly looking to buy some
government properties, one of which he wanted to use for a luxury hotel,
working with his tribal clients on the deal.
Last week,
prosecutors confronted Safavian about the now-famous Scotland golf trip that
Abramoff organized and which Safavian attended. Under questioning, Safavian
said “it never occurred to me” that the $3,100 he paid Abramoff only covered
about a fifth of the trip’s cost, even though everything was top of the line,
including private jet service. Safavian told jurors that he thought a round of
golf at St. Andres (the birthplace of golf) was “comparable” to the $135 a
round he paid in Maryland. When the prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg pointed out
that a typical caddie tip at St. Andrews was $100, Safavian said that Zeidenberg
made a “valid point.”
Safavian
insisted that he provided advice to Abramoff only out of friendship, but that
he never abused his powers as chief procurement officer because sales of
government properties were not under his bailiwick --"There was no action
I could have taken to help Mr. Abramoff," Safavian said. Safavian also
called Abramoff a "friend and, dare I say, mentor."
But
prosecutors noted that Safavian did arrange key meetings for Abramoff and GSA
officials right before the Scotland trip, and showed jurors e-mails documenting
Safavian helping Abramoff gather information about the properties in question.
Also last week
in court, GSA lawyer Eugenia Ellison testified that had she known Safavian was
advising Abramoff, she probably wouldn’t have okayed his golf vacation. In
general, individuals with business before administrative agencies are not
allowed to give gifts to agency officials.
For more, see:
“Safavian Defends Abramoff Dealings,”
By Jeffrey H.
Birnbaum, Washington Post
“Ex-White House
Aide Denies Lying About Ethics Issue
By PHILIP SHENON:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/washington/03safavian.html
“Safavian Said
Not Forthcoming on Lobbyist,” By PETE YOST, Associated Press:
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/05/31/national/w165523D01.DTL
2.
Will lobbying reform die in committee?
It has now
been more than a month since the House passed a weak lobbying reform, and the
House-Senate conference to reconcile the House and Senate lobbying reform bills
has not even gotten underway. Now, there is beginning to be some speculation in
Washington that lobbying reform may not even get enacted into law.
Jeffrey
Birnbaum of the Washington
Post reports that:
“Nearly six
months after Abramoff's guilty plea stirred a "crisis" that made a
lobbying bill a must, the House-Senate conference committee charged with
drafting the final compromise has not even met. That's how little Congress
cares about the issue.”
“The Senate
passed its ethics bill March 29. The House passed its weaker version May 3. The
Senate has named conferees, but the House left town for a 10-day break without
appointing negotiators, which means Congress will have a hard time passing any
lobbying law changes by the Fourth of July, if then.”
“Another piece
of evidence along these lines is the lack of genuine movement by the ethics
committees. The Senate's panel beat back a bipartisan effort to create an
independent Office of Public Integrity to police ethics rules on Capitol Hill by
arguing that the ethics panel is already doing an excellent job.”
“At the same
time, the committee is proudly ignoring the Senate's biggest ethical problem:
the federal probe into whether the Senate's top Republican, Bill Frist of
Tennessee, sold shares in his family's hospital company after receiving an
insider's tip. How can the panel stand down on that one? Its members say it
doesn't investigate accusations that federal agencies are already looking
into.”
Now is a great
time to let your members of Congress know that you are not satisfied with their
efforts to tackle lobbying reform and will not be satisfied until they enact
full public funding of elections. For more, see this week’s action item.
For the full
story, see: “Wave of Corruption Fails to Move Congress to Act on Ethics
Legislation,” By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/28/AR2006052800795.html
Scandal
3.
Jury convicts one Enron Broadband executive, acquits another
One week after
one federal jury in Houston convicted Enron founder Kenneth Lay and
former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, another federal jury in Houston convicted another
Enron executive, former Enron Broadband CFO Kevin A. Howard, of fraud,
conspiracy, and falsifying records.
But jurors did
acquit a second executive, former Enron Broadband accountant Michael W. Krautz,
on those same charges.
Prosecutors
had argued that that Enron Broadband pulled off a $111 million accounting fraud
that included a phony sale of part of a video-on-demand service that was
failing. The deal, known as “Braveheart,” allowed the division to meet earnings
targets
Defense
lawyers argued that Howard and Krautz were unaware of criminal activity and
that all the deals were blessed by outside lawyers and accountants.
For more, see:
“One Guilty and One Acquitted in Enron Broadband Trial,” By KATE MURPHY
“THE ENRON
BROADBAND TRIAL” By JOHN C. ROPER and TOM FOWLER of the Houston Chronicle
This article is:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/enron/broadband/3919024.html
4.
Enron’s law firm may finally get its comeuppance
With Jeff
Skilling and Kenneth Lay convicted of their role in Enron’s massive fraud,
attention may now focus to the role of Enron’s outside law firm, Vinson &
Elkins, which so far has not been formally implicated, but is alleged to have
played a central advising role in the company’s massive fraud.
Business
Week reports that now
that Vinson & Elkins has reached a bankruptcy settlement with
Enron, “The legal filing will shed light on one of the last
remaining mysteries in the Enron drama: the role played by the company's main
outside law firm. Were V&E's lawyers co-conspirators? Or were they merely
scribes who unknowingly drafted documents that helped Enron fleece its
shareholders? These questions have been hard to answer because only a small
portion of V&E's handiwork has been made public. The firm insists it did
nothing wrong and has long maintained that its attorneys played no role in
helping Lay, Skilling & Co. perpetrate the most sweeping corporate fraud in
recent history.”
“But documents
and transcripts…indicate that V&E attorneys had doubts about the legitimacy
of Enron's business practices. Sometimes they even made light of the company's
aggressive accounting….V&E also played a critical role in helping the
energy company complete a series of complex transactions designed to generate
cash from the sale of otherwise illiquid assets.”
For more, see:
“Enron's Last Mystery: Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as
blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains?”
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988056.htm
Corporate
Social Responsibility
5.
Consumers want companies to treat workers better
Companies that
want to be socially responsible should pay their workers more, according to
three-quarters of people surveyed recently by National Consumers League and
Fleishman-Hillard. And when asked to defined “corporate social responsibility”
in their own words, 27 percent of people in the survey said it meant a
commitment to the well-being of its employees. By contrast, only 3 percent said
that charitable contributions were a good indicator of corporate social
responsibility.
Two in three
people also said that they considered corporate social responsibility when
deciding which products to purchase. And 80 percent of people that it is
“extremely" or "very" important to work for a company that
shares their values.
Additionally,
the survey found that just 30 percent of people think that companies are doing
a better job with corporate social responsibility now than they were two or
three years ago. Additionally, almost half of the respondents say they use the
Internet to conduct their own research on companies. On a scale of 1 to 5 (1
being poor and 5 being excellent), just 21 percent of consumers gave companies
a 4 or 5, while 34 percent gave companies a 1 or a 2.
For more, see:
“Corporate Conscience Survey Says Workers Should Come First,”
By STEPHANIE
STROM of the New York Times:
“Want to be
seen as a responsible company? Then treat your workers well,”
http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=research&id=3271
Executive Pay
6.
More evidence of executive pay not linked to performance
Gretchen
Morgenson of the New
York Times has found yet
more evidence of corporations finding ways to give executives out-of-control
pay packages even when companies fail to meet earnings targets or share price
goals.
Morgenson
reports that:
“As executive
pay packages have rocketed in recent years, their defenders have contended that
because most are tied to company performance, they are both earned and
deserved. But as the Las Vegas Sands example shows, investors who plow through
company filings often find that executive compensation exceeds the amounts
allowed under the performance targets set by the directors.”
“Executives of
companies as varied as Halliburton,
the military contractor and oil services concern; Assurant, an insurance
company; and Big Lots,
a discount retailer, all received bonuses and other pay outside the performance
parameters set by the boards of those companies. It is the equivalent of moving
the goalposts to shorten the field, compensation experts say. Some employment
agreements actually stipulate that they will provide bonuses even if company
performance declines.”
“While bonus
and other incentive pay figures are included in company filings, shareholders
hoping to calculate precisely what performance objectives executives must meet
to receive such pay can be confounded. Descriptions of bonus targets are
typically vague and often include a laundry list of measures that the board may
or may not consider. The board may factor in sales, earnings, stock price,
capital expenditures, cash flow, even inventory levels. Company officials often
explain the practice by saying that too-specific information on performance
hurdles can give away corporate secrets or invite rival organizations to lure
executives away by offering them contract terms that are easier to achieve.
Compensation experts counter that lists of vague hurdles may allow carefully
chosen measurements to be met in both fair weather and foul.”
For the full
story, see: “GILDED PAYCHECKS, REWARDS, GUARANTEED: Big Bonuses Still Flow,
Even if Bosses Miss Goals,” By GRETCHEN
MORGENSON of the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/business/01bonus.html
This
Week’s Action Item:
Keep
Pushing for Clean Elections
While
lobbying reform stalls in a conference committee, bribery and corrupt scandals
continue to dominate the headlines, ensuring there will be another opportunity
for Congress to revisit the issue. That’s why it’s important to keep pushing
for full public funding of elections so that when lobbying reform comes up
again, there will be real momentum for real campaign finance reform.
Already
seven states and two cities have passed Clean Election campaign reform. But if
we’re going to clean up Washington, we need for Congress to pass such a reform.
Let’s keep the pressure on.
As this week’s
Action Item, please either contact your members of Congress directly about the
importance of Clean Elections, or at least sign Public Campaign’s petition
demanding clean elections at: http://ga3.org/campaign/CleanElectionsA
Help
spread the word about The People's Business
We encourage
you to tell everyone you know about the Citizen Works book, The People's
Business and to distribute promotional flyers locally. Flyers are available
online, or if you would like to have some flyers mailed to you, please e-mail news@citizenworks.org.
The People's
Business, which is available in stores everywhere, examines the very nature of
corporate power, presenting a range of strategies to curtail it, explaining how
ordinary people can restore citizen control. Bringing together the
recommendations of the Citizen Works Corporate Reform Commission—a coalition of
leading authors, activists, scholars, and professionals—The People's Business
is a vital, clearheaded plan for strengthening individual rights, transforming
corporations into engines of public prosperity, and creating a sustainable,
life-respecting society where the people have the power.
Bolstered with
relevant history and examples, The People's Business is a lively book that will
appeal both to deeply-committed long-time activists looking for a coherent
approach in the struggle for corporate accountability as well as thoughtful
citizens everywhere who may be looking for immediate measures that serve as
effective means of corporate reform.
It is our hope
that The People's Business will serve as an important tool in educating people
about what they can do to challenge corporate power. But it will only be an
important tool if people actually read it. That's why we need your help in spreading
the word!
Why not pick
up your copy at a bookstore today if you haven't already?
MAKE YOUR
VOICE HEARD
* White House Comment Line: 202.456.1111
* White House Fax Line: 202.456.2461
* E-mail President George W. Bush
* E-mail Vice President Dick Cheney
* White House Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500
* US Capitol Switchboard: 202.224.3121
*
Contact your senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
* Contact
your congressional representative: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
To
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