By 2004 the support for SLD in the polls had dropped from about 30% to just below 10%, and several high-ranking party members had been accused of taking part in high profile political scandals by the mainstream press (most notably the Rywin affair: Rywin-gate).
Lew Wallace | Lew Grade | Lew Ayres | Lew Tabackin | Lew Irwin | Lew Hoad | Lew Brown | Jack Lew | Lew Stone | Lew Pollack | Lew Christensen | Lew Burdette | Richard Beebe in the original line-up of '''Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap''' (left to right): John Gilliland | Lew Perkins | LEW Hennigsdorf | Lew Hayman | Lew Dockstader | Lew Cody | Elizabeth Van Lew | Rywin affair | River Lew | Peter Lew | Michael Lew | Lucky Lew | Lew Worsham | Lew Stringer | Lew Sapieha | Lew Rywin | Lew Lewis | Lew Leslie |
On 22 July 2002, Lew Rywin called in at the office of Adam Michnik, editor of Poland's largest daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.