Judge says DeLay 'withdrew'

June 27, 2006, 2:23AM
Judge says DeLay 'withdrew'
Statement may spell trouble for GOP, but 22nd District issue still awaits ruling

By JANET ELLIOTT
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN - A federal judge hearing a ballot dispute Monday involving former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay said he thinks that DeLay withdrew from the November election, indicating potential trouble for Republicans who want to name a replacement candidate.

"He is not going to participate in the election and he withdrew," said U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who did not issue an official ruling after a daylong trial regarding DeLay's status as the GOP nominee for the 22nd Congressional District.

Jim Bopp, a lawyer for the Republican Party of Texas, disagreed, telling Sparks "there's been no withdrawal." Bopp said that instead, DeLay moved to Virginia, making him ineligible and triggering a state law that allows the party to select a new nominee.

Sparks also said that if political parties are allowed to replace primary election winners with more popular candidates, "the abuse would be incredible."
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http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4004711.html

He should have never run in the primary to begin with. He knew he was in trouble going in, now he's trying to change election law after the fact. Glad to see the judge sees through his crap.

outside of Houston either. (CBS)

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way to the bitter end and you'll understand what he did and why he did it. He was just running a scam to collect funds for his legal expenses.

Got to get that "librul" judge's ruling overturned.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/04/delay.election/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Embattled Rep. Tom DeLay said Tuesday he's dropping his bid for re-election, while insisting he's never acted improperly.

"I've never done anything while I've been in elective office for my personal gain," he told CNN's "The Situation Room."

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Dropping out of the race allows Delay to use his left over campaign contributions to help bankroll his legal defense, said Ken Gross, a Washington lawyer who specializes in campaign finance. DeLay had $1.3 million in his coffers in mid-February, according to federal campaign-finance records.

DeLay was obliged to step aside as House majority leader after the indictment, and Democrats labeled him the poster boy for a "culture of corruption" embraced by GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.

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Why do we have to take out TX's trash as well. "Frick"! Allen, Warner, Falwell, Robertson, and now frickin' Delay.??? Is God pissed at VA for some reason?

Robert E. Lee :)

"Lee, Jackson, King Day" in VA.

That would be, Stonewell Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Martin Luther King. Only in VA could the politicians think those three men were "peas in a pod".

The world would be better off.

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Link:
http://www.kaiju.com/bios.htm

The TX legal system is so.....cute. We KNOW he knows that the gops are in the wrong, but the decision could be otherwise. :eyes:

This is not the Texas judicial system. The repugs removed the case to federal court. Sparks is a federal judge appointed by G.H.W. Bush.

Under Texas law, if you withdraw after the primary, then the party can not replace you for the general election. This means that the GOP has to either (a) call a special election (which they do not want to do), (b) have delay run in November or (c) run a write in campaign.

Soon after the primary The Bug announced he was withdrawing from the race and resigning from Congress.

It wasn't until several days later (almost a week if I recall) The Bug announced he was moving to Virginia. His official Virginia residency wouldn't have occurred until sometime after that.

The Bug is going to get squashed.

April 4, 2006, 9:55 am
DeLay Withdraws From House Race
Tom DeLay made it official this morning: He will quit his seat in the House of Representatives before the end of June. Addressing his Texas constituents, the former House Majority Leader said, “Because I care so deeply about this district and the people in it, I refuse to allow liberal Democrats an opportunity to steal this seat with a negative, personal campaign.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/04/04/

accounts and any other archive of what happened that day to rewrite history so they can place another thug in Congress.

I said then and I said now, I don't think voters should be punished for the actions of incompetent politicians.

i have no sympathy for any voters that would elect someone like delay (or toricelli, for that matter) anyway.

I thought our courageous Republicans didn't engage in that sort of behavior.

Judge Sparks can make one of three rulings: (1) DeLay moved to another state, becoming ineligible to run, and the GOP can replace him on the November ballot, (2) DeLay's move was a sham, so he must stay on the ballot, or (3) DeLay's move was a sham and DeLay withdrew his name from the ballot so there will be no Republican name on the November ballot.

The Republicans want (1). The Democrats want (2). It appears that Judge Sparks may be leaning to (3).

It is so much fun watching the Republicans with their surreptitious rough-draft letters, their secret plans withheld from the public since last January, their sneaky fundraising, and their judge shopping that wasted even more time ---- and then see them blame the Democrats.

Lots more here: www.brazosriver.com/