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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 02:48 AM
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Tom DeLay foster home project opens outside Houston
Tom DeLay foster home project opens outside Houston

By Michael Graczyk
ASSOCIATED PRESS

2:52 p.m. August 8, 2005

RICHMOND, Texas – House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Monday opened a privately financed project touted as an innovative way of giving abused and neglected children a stable foster home environment.
"There is no other place in the entire country that does what we're trying to do," the Republican said of the project. "And we hope to take this as a model around the country because the foster care system in every state has problems that need to be dealt with."

The project also has drawn attention because the first phase includes homes constructed by Houston-based builder Perry Homes. The company is owned by Bob Perry, a Republican Party financial donor who gained notoriety last year as the chief financial backer of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, whose ads criticized the war record of John Kerry.

DeLay said the homes are being built by Perry Homes at cost, and he dismissed suggestions that his charitable activities provide a way for donors to gain political access.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050808-1452-delay-fosterhomes.html


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ArbustoBuster Donating Member (956 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 02:51 AM
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1. Argh.
"Built at cost" is industry slang for "we're going to buy all our new equipment on this project and pay our slack-time workers at the same time instead of pissing them off by laying them off!"

I used to work construction. I guarantee, every single worker on that project will have new tools and such, paid for by DeLay's "charity."
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 02:53 AM
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2. Amazing how brazen SLEAZE and Corruption has come front and center
This shit is now brazenly paraded in public

AND THE SHEEP SLEEP, content that gay men will not be allowed to have a significant other.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 02:56 AM
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3. Shameless
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 03:02 AM
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4. I shudder to think what the true purpose might be for a foster home...
..headed up by Tom DeLay. Boystown and the Franklin cover-up leaps to mind.
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anitar1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 03:48 AM
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5. Probably gets some "Faith Based" money out of this. n/t
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bigbrother05 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 03:49 AM
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6. It's the NEW AMERICA
They will raise little republican Nazi's.
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