Message-ID: <20624297.1075855419332.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:06:00 -0700 (PDT) From: ralph@censtrat.com To: mpalmer@enron.com, skean@enron.com Subject: Lehane/Fabiani Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Ralph Reed X-To: Mark Palmer (E-mail) , Steven Kean (E-mail) X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Steven_Kean_Jan2002\Kean, Steven J.\Caliornia - investigations X-Origin: Kean-S X-FileName: skean (Non-Privileged).pst Tuesday, June 19, 2001 California Stiffs Gore's Hatchet Men California's state controller, Democrat Kathleen Connell, says she won't sign any checks for those $30,000-a-month Gore hatchet men hired by bumbling Gov. Gray Davis to try to blame others for the state's energy fiasco. "I would like assurance that their work is directly related to solving California's energy crisis and not the political strategy that [Mark] Fabiani and [Chris] Lehane have built a reputation for through their work at the White House," Connell said, Fox News reported today. Connell says she supports a lawsuit filed Monday in Sacramento by Lewis Uhler, president of National Tax Limitation Committee, to block "consultant" fees to the two former advisers to failed presidential candidate Al Gore. "They have a conflict of interest that may be terminal to their employment," Uhler said. "These are clearly not electricity experts. Their background suggests they have been hired to be damage control folks for a beleaguered governor."