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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:20 PM
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Tom DeLay will be on the ballot (MSNBC)
Just heard it on MSNBC.
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:23 PM
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1. Ahhh, the final humiliation
:popcorn: :beer:
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:25 PM
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4. My sentiments exactly !
The appeals court just ruled that he can't withdraw his name and he must stay on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:24 PM
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2. Ole tom must be really getting pissed
at all this honesty and justice shit in his life. And to think, he tried to say fuck you residents of the district I represented, I don't want to live with you fucks anymore. But, maybe katerhine harris can loan him some campaign workers.
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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:24 PM
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3. Ahhhhhhh poor widdle GOP!
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:27 PM
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5. Soooo, "IF" he wins, under Tx law, he CANNOT be their Rep!
He doesn't live in Tx. anymore! How's THAT work?

Not to mention he RESIGNED from the House. Would the Pubs actually LET him back????
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Reciprocity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:32 PM
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6. Link
Appeals court refuses to let GOP replace DeLay on Texas ballot
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - A federal appeals court refused Thursday to let Texas Republicans replace Tom DeLay on the November congressional ballot.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks, who said in July that DeLay's name had to stay on the ballot even though he quit Congress and moved to Virginia.

DeLay won a March primary before resigning from Congress on June 9. He is awaiting trial in Texas state court on money laundering and conspiracy charges alleging that illegal corporate cash helped pay for legislative campaigns in 2002.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/15190381.htm
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:37 PM
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7. And don't ya just know
that there will be some idiots that vote for him.
:eyes:
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Czolgosz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-03-06 01:57 PM
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8. (k & r) Occasionally, just occasionally, justice prevails. The opinion is

clear and correct:

"Benkiser could not constitutionally find that DeLay was ineligible on June 7, the date she made her decision. Therefore, her application of the ineligibility statute to DeLay was unconstitutional."


"There is evidence that Benkiser did not act reasonably and with political neutrality when she declared DeLay ineligible. Indeed, the district court’s description of the events surrounding the letter sent by DeLay imply, at the very least, a lack of neutrality."


"we fail to see how removing DeLay from the ballot would protect the voters, inasmuch as it was the voters themselves who selected DeLay as the Republican candidate for the general election."
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