..."one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States. ..."

[donsu]

http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7

Tom DeLay's Amoral Code

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But if these self-appointed morality police were truly committed to upholding ethics and promoting values in government, they would begin challenging the House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who is hands down one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States.

"The Hammer"--DeLay got that nickname because he runs the US House of Representatives with an iron fist--has allegedly bribed his GOP colleagues to win their votes for legislation that he desperately wanted to pass in the House. He's engaged in quid pro quos with corporations seeking legislative favors, and violated campaign finance laws in Texas during the 2002 state house election contests. Now, after a seven-year truce in the US House that discouraged members from filing ethics charges against one another, Rep. Chris Bell has gone to the ethics committee and filed a 187-page bombshell charging that DeLay engaged in extortion, money-laundering and other abuses of power.

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Tom DeLay has never understood these things. He is committed to his take-no-prisoners agenda, and he sees ethics, morality and rules as nuisances that must be flouted, disdained and ignored. DeLay has racked up a record that demands investigation and action in the ethics committee and the courts of law. His scurrilous misdeeds demonstrate the yawning gap between a former President's private indiscretions and DeLay's dangerous violations of the public trust.
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may he rot in prison

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. He makes Mark "Dollar" Hanna look like a boy scout

[starroute]

2. The left has to reclaim the "morality" debate

And focus it on important things like honesty and integrity, rather than on peripheral matters like sex.

By reducing morality to being about nothing but sex and cusswords, the right has accomplished three things. It has claimed the issue for its own. It has been able to portray the left as moral relativists (because they believe private behavior should be a private matter.) And it has done a good job at keeping the corruption of business and government out of the spotlight

The left needs to make a sharp distinction between public morality and private morality and get very insistant about the need to upgrade the level of public accountability. Perhaps we should have slogans like "Private morality is between you and your conscience. But public morality affects everyone. X (supply candidate name here) believes in old-fashioned standards of integrity and trust."

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. You said it. Gotta remind people there is more than sex to get hot under

the collar about.

[LiberalTexan]

4. We don't want DeLay back in Texas BUT

I'd rather have him here than in Washington!

Help us kick his ass OUT!!!

http://www.richardmorrisonfordistrict22.com/

Contribute to his very worthy opponent (Repubs are running SCARED on this one!! Morrison has a real chance).