Fundraising focus earns DeLay greater influence - The Cockroach

In early 2001, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was driving around Austin with his top political aide, Jim Ellis, brainstorming about how to create more Republican-leaning U.S. House districts in Texas. State legislators were redrawing congressional borders to reflect the latest Census figures, and the Democrats who controlled the state House were preventing GOP senators and the governor from approving a plan that would give Republicans maximum advantage.
 
 THE TWO MEN devised a bold idea: create a political action committee whose sole purpose was to give Republicans control of the state House in the 2002 elections. Then, they surmised, the legislature could draw the districts again in 2003, this time ensuring more GOP seats in Congress.
       DeLay’s gambit — building a political money operation in Austin to increase his clout in Washington — is typical of the innovative and aggressive techniques that have helped make him the House’s second-ranking leader, and a politician with extraordinary reach into the worlds of lobbying, federal elections and state politics.
       Details of DeLay’s fundraising efforts have been reported before. For the first time, however, a public interest group — Washington-based Democracy 21 — has assembled a comprehensive picture of his far-flung, interlocking system of committees, which raised a combined $12.6 million in 2000-2002.
       The picture that emerges shows that DeLay has gone far beyond...

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