Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites »
“I don’t support the death penalty, but if I did, Kenny Boy would have been first in line,” she writes. “Ken Lay did far more harm than the average murderer, or even the average terrorist. He left thousands of people destitute, including workers whose pensions evaporated and students whose college savings disappeared. How many people will die in poverty because of Lay? How many students lost the opportunity to go to college because of the Enron swindle? How many lives were shortened because the innocent employees of Enron and Arthur Andersen lost their jobs and health benefits?
“On the larger scale, Lay’s crimes also undermined trust in the stock market. His influence peddling damaged the integrity of American government. Enron money helped the Republicans take the White House. It’s not for nothing that Kenny Boy got to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom.
