NYT: Inquiry Focuses on Group DeLay Created

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

Published: February 16, 2004


AUSTIN, Tex. — A political action committee created by Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, enjoyed tremendous success here in 2002: all but 3 of 21 Republican candidates the committee backed for state representative won their races, helping the party take control of the Texas House.

Last year, the Republicans used that clout to carve Texas into new Congressional districts under a plan that political analysts say will bring them at least five new seats in Congressional elections this year.

But local prosecutors and a grand jury here have been investigating the committee, Texans for a Republican Majority, including its use of corporate donations in the election, lawyers close to the case said.

Investigators are also examining whether there were violations of a law intended to curb the ability of outside groups to influence the race for House speaker, the lawyers said. The investigation follows a complaint filed with prosecutors last year by Texans for Public Justice, a campaign watchdog group.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/16/politics/16DELA.html?pagewanted=all&position=

Let's go get those Bush Bastards!

Hope they nail Delay..........

That reprile DeLay needs a long stretch in stir; he is a damned bad man.

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

...I would SO enjoy seeing the extortionist bastard hoisted on this particular petard.

:D

as the asscroft/abortion thread depresses me. Whew! I'll be so glad when this craptacular admin is GONE!!!

All of these PACs are intertwined and as Ronnie Earle says it's "an effort to unravel a tangled web of secret money". This tangled web of illegal corporate contributions has just gone completely overboard. In Texas we're very close to being a Fascist state where government and corporations act in a unified front against the needs of the common people.

On a related note there is a relatively new web site dedicated to keeping up with these campaign finance scandals. The site is Clean Up Texas Politcs at http://CleanUpTexasPolitics.org. The group putting this site up is not new, Campaigns for People is often quoted along with Texans for Public Justice when it comes to anything involving finance reform in Texas. Give them a look over and help them out if you can.

Only you can prevent the further erosion of our rights! Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Sonia

and placing the article in its larger context. I've saved near my desk an American Heritage Dictionary definition of fascism someone posted a while back: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

I hope they investigate his so-called children's charities as well...the one that gathers money in exchange for "access" at the NY convention. There just isn't a place hot enough in hell...

scandals hanging around the bugman. He really is such an unlikable and evil creature, one of them has got to bring him down sooner or later.