Seaman asked to get rid of dirty Delay money

Cross posted on the The Red State and Burnt Orange Report

Lt. Cmdr. Juan Garcia, candidate for HD 32, asked for Republican Gene Seaman to return all the dirty Delay money he has received (see full press release here). Garcia suggests that this money should be to donate a local children's health clinic. Seaman's vote on CHIP removed hundreds of thousand of working family's children off the health insurance program in 2003.

State representative candidate Juan Garcia today called on his opponent to give nearly $50,000 he took from Tom DeLay and others linked to the ongoing corruption scandals surrounding the disgraced congressman to a local children's health clinic.

"This campaign should be about our community's future, not my opponent's past," Garcia said. "I encourage him to put this behind him so that we can spend the rest of this campaign talking about how to fix our public schools, keep our kids healthy, and make our neighborhoods stronger."

Incumbent Gene Seaman reported accepting $48,710 in 2002 from two discredited political action committees founded by DeLay, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) and its parent organization, Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC), as well as from the Texas Association of Business (TAB). TRMPAC and TAB have since been indicted as part of a continuing criminal grand jury investigation in Travis County.


DeLay announced this week that he will resign his office as the biggestpolitical corruption scandal in a generation continues to embroil theleadership in Washington, D.C. and Austin.

Delay resignation effects all of Texas because his corrupting influence permeated all of Texas. Will Seaman donate the dirty money? Probably not. He probably thinks he did nothing wrong money by taking tainted money. We shall see.

$50K Wow, that Seaman sure has a lot of dirty DeLay money. He should absolutely give it to a local charity. It's the right thing to do.

Sonia

It's mighty hard to separate a republiCon from their cash. My goodness, when they pay their taxes, they think the Government (the People) is "stealing" from them!

If he had given the money back prior to be asked, he would have been okay. Now, if he gives it back, we the opposition win and if he doesn't, we the opposition win -

What a beautiful and well earhed scenario!

It's great to be on the win-win side on this one.

I just have to post this picture again. Just because I like it.


Photo credit: Alfred Stanley. Juan Garcia at a fundraiser for him at Gary Muauro's house this week.

Sonia