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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 11:58 AM
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DeLay invokes Martin Luther King in retirement announcement
Hill newsletter: DeLay invokes Martin Luther King in retirement announcement

RAW STORY
Published: Friday April 7, 2006

The following ran in The Hill's e-newsletter this morning. Hat tip to Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo who caught it first.

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DeLay will pay lawyers with campaign money

Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said Thursday that money in his campaign account is headed toward his defense.

“We'll pay lawyers,” he said when asked whether he would turn his war chest over to the National Republican Congressional Committee.

DeLay, the former House majority leader, announced earlier this week that he would resign before his term expires. DeLay has been indicted in a Texas campaign-finance case and two of his former aides have pleaded guilty in a federal corruption probe.

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DeLay said Thursday that announcing his resignation has been liberating.

Quoting Martin Luther King. Jr., DeLay said, “Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, I’m free at last.”

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Hill_newsletter_DeLay_invokes_Martin_Luther_0407.html
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:00 PM
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1. That is so disgusting I don't even know what to say
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:01 PM
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2. Free from what Tom?
You wanted to be in congress, whipping your cowling republicans into shape. Free from what tom? Your lies and treachery and treason? Free from what tom? Honesty? Not yet bitch, you are going to trial. Not free from the truth tom!
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:02 PM
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3. Amen! n/t
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:05 PM
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4. MLK is turning over in his grave
OMG! WTH? A known racist bastard like Delay invoking MLK in order to make others feel sorry for him ?!:wtf:

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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:07 PM
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5. What a schmuck! This little thieving lying chicken fucker is only
only dressed like a human, there is no way this idiot, Tom DeLay is a man.

But let's leave him twisting in the wind. Two months from now the right nuts won't even have anything to do with him.


Suck our balls Chicken Falls
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 12:16 PM
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6. Given that he's been indicted and his cronies are turning on him...
it might be more appropriate for him to say, “Free for a while, free for a while. Until my corrupt ass is convicted, I’m free for a while.”
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