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April 13, 2005
Still No Time For Delay
In today's excite poll, 56% of the responses from approximately 10k people (at the time of this entry) believe Delay should resign his Congressional Seat. Another 18% think he should step down in his leadership roll in Congress. He was reprimanded three times last year. In yet another display of Congress' attempts of creating laws (or rescinding them) to benefit one person, last year the House of Representives attempted to rescind the rule keeping Representatives from holding a leadership post if they have been indicted by state grand juries. Currently, Texas DA Ronnie Earl is investigating a Political Action committee associtated with Delay and he has already indicted three of Delay's political associates. (FYI, Republicans and Delay backed down from changing the Indictment rule due to public pressure.)
So what did Delay do? Well, it mostly has to do with this political action committee and how they receive and encourage donations. Essentially, Delay's vote and influence was allegedly for sale. If you live in Texas and ever wondered why you might be in one district for State Representative, your neighbor might be in another and still the guy across the street might be in another? Well, that is largely due to the Redistricting push bought by contributors of this political action committee. This Great Gerrymander resulted in 6 additional Republican seats. Delay was a huge proponent of this recent redistricting push and even pressured the FAA to find errant Democrats in the Great Walkout now known as "Texas-Gate" last year. Delay, at least on some level (this is what might get him indicted depending on his degree of involvement), also supported and raised funds for this political action committee. The question is whether or not he sold his vote.
There's a great article in last month's Texas Monthly about Texas DA Ronnie Earl which details some of the Delay allegations.
Posted by mermu at April 13, 2005 11:50 AM
Comments
Delay and cronies say it's all political maneuvering by Ronnie Earl, but if you look at Ronnie Earl's record, he's also investigated and indicted numerous Democrats over time. Delay's public facade versus his actions are at opposite ends of the spectrum.
Posted by: Cynthia at April 14, 2005 08:29 AM
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