House panel to consider complaint against DeLay

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Thu, Jul. 22, 2004





House panel to consider complaint against DeLay

By Maria Recio

Star-Telegram Washington Bureau


WASHINGTON - The House Ethics Committee meets today for the first time to review a complaint against Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, as the GOP chairman rejected calls by watchdog groups to appoint an outside counsel.

"The so-called good government groups always want us to do an outside counsel," said committee Chairman Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo. "I have never supported doing an outside counsel.

"This is an internal police mechanism for the House of Representatives," Hefley said.

The committee is considering a complaint lodged by Rep. Chris Bell, D-Houston, that DeLay helped direct illegal corporate contributions to influence Texas legislative races in 2002; sought a corporate contribution from a Kansas company in return for legislative favors; and improperly called on federal resources to search for missing state legislators during congressional redistricting.
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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. About time they flushed this cockroach from his lair!

he gives all pest control operators a bad name (the pest control company I work for is 100% Democratic, btw). Nail him--forgive the pun--without DeLay.

[0007]

4. I hope Tom Craddick frys with DeLay

Tom DeLay's fundraising activities are getting mega press attention these days. A Washington Post article over the past weekend revealed that DeLay had solicited "$100,000 in donations to his political action committee from Enron's top lobbyists in May 2001 so he could help bankroll the redistricting" effort. Amy Goodman, the host of Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now!" show reported that the $100,000 was in addition "to the $250,000 the company had already pledged to the Republican Party that year."

The author of the forthcoming political biography, The Hammer: Tom Delay, God, Money and the United States Congress, commented on the latest allegations against DeLay: Dubose described a relationship between DeLay and Enron that went back to 1994, when Enron donated $250,000 to DeLay just as his ARMPAC was getting off the ground.

junior, Kennth Lay, and Tom DeLay are cock-a-roaches with the same mommy.

[Jane Austin]

10. You know, the way DeLay is always being associated with piety

just flabbergasts me.

Where are the reporters who remember his nickname from his Texas Legislature days, Hot Tub Tom?

The story goes that when one of the other legislators who lived in his same apartment complex told DeLay he ought to be more discreet about the hot tub babes he surrounded himself with, DeLay answered that the other fellow did it, too.

The other legislator had to remind him that he was single, whereas DeLay was married.

What a nauseating person.

[acmavm]

2. Yeah, but even with the Enron e-mails the republicans will say that there

either isn't enough proof, or that no ethical or legal laws were broken. I'm not a mind reader, but I can see this one coming.

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"The so-called good government groups always want us to do an outside counsel," said committee Chairman Rep. Joel Hefley, R-Colo. "I have never supported doing an outside counsel.

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Yeah, right. Was this clown around during the Clinton years?

[maddezmom]

3. likely to be extended???

<After accepting the complaint in June, the committee has 45 days -- until Aug. 6 -- to review the issue. Hefley said that deadline is likely to be extended another 45 days.

Hefley also said the panel will have to decide whether the House has jurisdiction over the controversial Texas contributions, which are being examined by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle.

DeLay maintains that he is not a target of the Texas investigation. In recent days, Democracy 21, Common Cause and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics have urged the committee to name an outside counsel, as was done in the investigations of former House speakers Jim Wright, D-Fort Worth, and Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.>

[Scooter24]

5. They are trying to find a way out

of it. But I'm sure they will "investigate" Berger the same way they did Clinton and politicize it as much as possible to reflect poorly on Kerry. DeLay will get off with a slap on the wrist.

:puke:

[maddezmom]

6. one can only hope that increased pressure with force them to

investigate.

[shraby]

7. Delay donated money to

4 of the panel members campaigns just recently.

[maddezmom]

8. how convenient?

:eyes:

[tom_paine]

9. The Imperial House WILL NEVER censure Bushevik DeLay

Any more than the Nazi Reichstag would have investigated Himmler.

Simply put, to expect even a semblence of justice is in fact a LITERAL IMPOSSIBILITY.

At least in Totalitarian Nations like Imperial Amerika.

[hatrack]

11. Berger - "Hearings NOW!!" DeLay - They'll "consider" it!

Sanctimonious hypocritical sacks of shit.