ANOTHER GRAY DAVIS SCANDAL seems to be brewing, this one over “A company that won approval of a $453 million contract in 2000 to help California manage welfare cases [that] gave $50,000 to Gov. Gray Davis’ campaign within a day of hiring one of the governor’s top fund-raisers as a lobbyist.” The company is Accenture, formerly known as Andersen Consulting.

Interestingly, I noticed that Accenture’s website has absolutely no mention of its history as part of the Andersen empire. I wondered if this was Enron-related, but I called Roxanne Taylor in their media office and she told me that the arbitration decision that severed the relationship between Andersen’s accounting and consulting arms required Accenture to remove all references to Andersen. Still, it’s an interesting historical connection under the circumstances.