Reviewers of DeLay's Ethics Got His Money

[reprehensor]

(The irony. As if Republicans have any ethics. -r.)

Reviewers of DeLay's ethics got his money

AUSTIN -- Four of the five Republicans investigating an ethics complaint against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay have received campaign contributions from DeLay's political action committee, records show.

The contributions -- $28,504 split among the four during the past seven years -- were all delivered before the ethics committee received the DeLay complaint June 15. But it is an example of awkward situations spawned by the U.S. House's decision to police itself on ethics.

"I think all the members hate" serving on the committee, said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan government watchdog.

"You're put in the position of either doing nothing -- which is what they generally do -- in which case you are fairly criticized for not taking your job seriously. On the other hand, you can try to enforce the rules and get all the other members angry at you," Noble told today's Austin American-Statesman.

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[amber dog democrat]

1. This calls for a recusal

How can they be objective?

[reprehensor]

2. I guess they have to ask Scalia.

He has pretty much set the standard for pure unbiased-ness.

[amber dog democrat]

3. I am waiting for the Franklin Mint Scalia figurene

I am making a model of a kangaroo court, ( wonder what the etomology of that term is ), and he will go nicley with my Torquemada figurene.

All the same to the legislators who are infected with the Bug Man's money....
for shame, for shame for shame, as Gomer Pyle would say.

[sonias]

4. More dirt on DeLay

DeLay is the money man, so everyone in his party is beholden to him, he makes sure of that. It's protection money, in reverse. He pays the politicians with corporate money to protect his corruption.

This new article has a very good summary of where where money trail leads. You know most of the TRMPAC and TAB scandal stuff that Ronnie Earl is investigating, but this adds another level just for the Enron connection.
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DeLay's Corporate Fundraising Investigated
Money Was Directed to Texas GOP to Help State Redistricting Effort
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43219-2004Jul11.html
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Cristen D. Feldman, the Texas lawyer who filed the suit, said in response, "I guess DeLay and his team forgot they were from Texas . . . the prohibition against clandestine corporate cash is 100 years old."
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Sonia