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Hi,
Good work Jeff. Dunn would think twice after receiving it. The following are some general comments about the letter, which makes some excellent points. First, I think the letter should go to all Senators individually, by name. Perhaps a more productive approach may be to point out to them that they should clearly understand the ramifications of what they are voting on when they vote on the contempt order (rather than point out to Dunn the error of his ways). Rather than focus on Dunn's committee, maybe we lay out the facts of the negotiation that led us to court and urge them to consider them before they take this historic vote. We can still say we weren't part of the original 1890 problem and we're only an infintesimal part of the current problem. But from there we should ask them to stand up for due process and civil rights and use the arguments in the letter to support why they ought to reject the contempt order. Using liberal arguments to a democrat audience makes some sense in this regard, but we might need help from Sanders on the civil libertarian arguments that sell best. An interesting opening might be: Several politicians in California have confided to Enron representatives over the course of the last several months that politics is a "blame game", and unfortunately Enron makes an excellent target. While we at Enron understand the need to blame outsiders when things go wrong, we believe that you will be going much further than blaming if you vote to place Enron in contempt of the Senate Select Committee to Investigate Price Manipulation of the Wholesale Energy Market. You will, in fact, be eroding the basic protections afforded citizens bla, bla,, bla. Its late in the day and I'm leaving for a short break tomorrow so I'm rambling. But you get my idea. Ignore at will. I won't be checking e-mail until Aug. 13th but my cell phone may be working at the farm in North Dakota (and I may want to connect with civilization, so don't hesitate to call).
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