Braley Attacked by Enron Lobbyist

By Rapid Reponse

A well connected Enron lobbyist has entered the First District Congressional race funding negative campaign ads against Bruce Braley.  Sue Walden, a former lobbyist for Enron, is listed in IRS documents as the contact person for the 527 smear group, “Americans for Honesty in Issues”.    She was also a Bush Pioneer for 2000 and 2004 and a Bush Ranger for 2004. 
 
 http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/contributorsandpaybacks/pioneer_search.cfm
 
Americans for Honesty on Issues (EIN: 134341094) is a 527 committee running attack ads against nine Democrat candidates in the 2006 mid-term elections, the New York Times reported (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/us/politics/11donate.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=print) October 11, 2006. It states that its purpose is “to engage in political issue communications in compliance with Federal and state laws.”
 
Although the new political action committee incorporates the word “honesty” in its name, little honesty has been employed by the organization regarding information about itself.
 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Honesty_on_Issues