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Post by DT1 on Sept 29, 2005 1:05:40 GMT 4
Excuse me while i pick my jaw up off the floor: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050928/ap_on_go_co/delay_investigationTHE HAMMER JUST GOT NAILED!!! Senate Majority Leader And Neocon crony Tom Delay(R,Texas)has just been indicted,and has "temporarily"stepped down. This is a long anticipated victory for the Progressive movement,and to the American taxpayer who does not equate knocking a golf-ball around a five star resort with "factfinding"... Details are scarce at this point. The implosion of the corrupt extremist faction of the Republican party is well under way. House Majority Leader Roy Blunt is currently at the helm,as the Neocon rout continues. More indictments are soon to follow.In an upward direction,,it is to be hoped.The charge:Conspiracy involving a PAC illegaly influencing the Texas legislature. This is HUGE.More on this as details emerge...
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Post by michelle on Sept 29, 2005 3:20:45 GMT 4
A defiant DeLay said he had done nothing wrong and denounced the Democratic prosecutor who pursued the case as a "partisan fanatic." He said, "This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham."
Let's watch and see if he squirms out of this one. I truly hope not. Michelle
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Post by jay paulson on Sept 29, 2005 6:16:19 GMT 4
It’s 7pm in Vancouver, just checked Google and their two top links for “tom delay indictment” led to stories that tell us 1) Indictment of Republican Tom DeLay a serious blow for Bush agenda and 2) Republicans adopted the indictment rule in 1993, when they were trying to end.... (something or other).
This should tell us 1) don’t count your chickens till they’re hatched and 2 ) if wishes were horses beggars would ride.
Vancouver is the home of Gail Davidson, a lawyer who has been working with international law bodies to secure the prosecution of Bush and company for war crimes. I’m very proud of that fact.
We should note, however, that so far the only successful prosecution and conviction of war criminals was that accomplished by a victorious group of nations against a defeated Germany.
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Post by DT1 on Sept 29, 2005 7:18:25 GMT 4
Pack a lunch,guys:
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 893,000 for: " list of tom delay scandals" The above is for real.I aint even playin.seriously...
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 29, 2005 8:02:42 GMT 4
Karl Rove, Bill Frist, Tom Delay. What a crminal bunch of thugs ruling the roost in this administration. Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, this cabal stinks to high heaven.
Seems to me, short circuiting the law of the land is what these guys spend most of their energies on 24/7.
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 29, 2005 9:59:53 GMT 4
For there is good reason to suspect that the Cheney / Bush Administration is less a government than it is a crime syndicate, which, thanks to a compliant Congress and Justice Department, has to date done its dirty work without fear of investigation or prosecution:
Ernest Partridge,
The Crisis Papers
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 29, 2005 13:36:06 GMT 4
House GOP Shaken Up After Delay Indictment Yahoo News More scoundrels surfacing. Snip: Even as DeLay professed his innocence and his lawyers said they hoped to avoid having him handcuffed, fingerprinted and photographed, potential for fresh controversy surfaced. Records on file with the Federal Election Commission show that Blunt's political action committee has paid roughly $88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant facing indictment in Texas in the same case as DeLay. source : news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050929/ap_on_go_co/delay
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Post by gizmo on Sept 29, 2005 19:37:00 GMT 4
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Post by jay paulson on Sept 30, 2005 6:16:00 GMT 4
Maybe some of you will want to read a little article at www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=30061a GUEST COLUMN by a college freshman (believe it or not) Published Thursday, September 29, 2005 entitled: Indictment a win for Dems, not democracy. He makes some interesting points. ............. I know I keep singing the same old song over and over again--but it may be worth repeating: It's not Bush, it's not Cheney, it's none of the expendable puppets. The agenda is to bankrupt the US, impoverish its citizens and rule the world. They used to sing "where have all the flowers gone?" Now it's "where have all of our jobs gone?" Read the financial pages when you get a minute. Incidentally just what are the charges against Delay? It seems that he and 2 associates tried to use corporate donations to aid Texas legislative candidates in violation of state law in the 2002 state elections. It’s not about the 2000 or 2004 elections, not about 9/11, not about helping to lie about WMDs in Iraq, not about torture, violating Geneva conventions,, nor New Orleans embezzlement and murder....it’s about a $190 000 check. ( Not the billions disappearing daily.) The new Chief Justice Roberts (Note Bene) could say : Tom, you have to pay that money back. And repent.
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Post by DT1 on Sept 30, 2005 7:23:41 GMT 4
Very interesting points,indeed.Thanks for the link,Jay. At times,it seems the corruption and cronyism will never end. I may have fell victim to unwarranted exuberence... But in these dark days of the United States of Bushworld,I'll take what I can get in the(downsized) good news department.
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Post by jay paulson on Sept 30, 2005 18:51:05 GMT 4
you're right dt--no point in becoming morosely serious--we're all in the same boat, and it ain't no noah's ark! no captain, heavy seas, no safe haven in sight. we'll just have to grin and bear it.
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Post by michelle on Oct 4, 2005 3:04:41 GMT 4
HEE HEE!
The War Against Tom DeLay
NYTimes.com By ANNE E. KORNBLUT Published: October 2, 2005
WASHINGTON TO hear Tom DeLay tell it, his indictment last week by a Texas grand jury resulted from a vast left-wing conspiracy - the culmination of years of relentless pursuit by Democrats who, in Mr. DeLay's words, "drug my name through the mud."
Democrats, of course, brushed the accusation aside, saying Mr. Delay, a Texas Republican, had only himself to blame for the conspiracy charge that forced him to step aside as the House majority leader.
But in fact an extensive network of forces has been aligned against Mr. DeLay - a kaleidoscope of activists and liberals, clean-government advocates and legal experts, even a smattering of resentful conservatives and Republican moderates, all bound by their desire to see him stopped.
Some have launched daily blogs devoted to the House leader, rented billboard ads denouncing him and mobilized phone banks to spread the word. Others have staged protests and written opinion pieces. A few have invoked his name to recruit Democratic candidates - one, predictably, in his Texas district, but many more in other parts of the country, where the DeLay name has slowly become Democratic code for Republican corruption after many months of a public relations campaign with that very goal in mind.
Whether the roaring anti-DeLay machine deserves even partial credit - or blame - for his tumble last week is up for debate. Mr. DeLay has painted the veteran Democratic prosecutor in the case, Ronnie Earle, as a partisan fanatic, while Mr. Earle's defenders claim he is an evenhanded seeker of justice. The grand jury Mr. Earle convened brought a count of conspiracy against Mr. DeLay alleging that he funneled illegal corporate contributions to Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature in 2002.
Regardless of how the criminal case unfolds, it is clear that Mr. Delay's persona has produced a cottage industry of forces that trace his every step and draw negative public attention to it.
"I think it's entirely his own undoing, but the good-government groups definitely decided to focus on him," said Tom Matzzie, the Washington director of the liberal organization MoveOn, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars running advertisements against Mr. DeLay and for his current Democratic opponent.
Or from a different perspective: "The anti-DeLay groups are sore losers - or 'Soros losers' as we call them," said Barbara Comstock, a former spokeswoman at the Justice Department under President Bush who has been active in Mr. Delay's defense, referring to the billionaire George Soros, who contributes heavily to Democratic causes, including MoveOn.
Exactly how much money has been spent by partisan donors to drive Mr. DeLay from power is difficult to determine. Even the Republican National Committee and prominent Republican opposition researchers do not put a precise figure on it, although House Republicans did launch a drive earlier this year to link anti-DeLay groups to prominent Democratic donors.
According to the Washington newspaper The Hill, the Republican National Committee issued talking points in March that accused four independent watchdog groups, including Democracy 21 and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW, of having "close ties to left-wing leaders like George Soros."
Proving the extent of collaboration among Democrats, watchdog groups and their intermediaries is no simple task: Nonprofit groups have fewer campaign-finance disclosure requirements, making it harder to connect the dots, if any.
At the same time, the line between genuinely nonpartisan advocacy groups, which monitor the fund-raising of Democrats and Republicans, and partisan entities, which seek to unravel the Republicans' success, has grown blurry. Their strategies have overlapped - much the way those of Newt Gingrich and the watchdog group Common Cause did in 1988 when they highlighted ethics violations by Speaker Jim Wright, a Democrat.
Perhaps the most famously zealous Ahab in pursuit of Mr. DeLay's resignation is David Donnelly, the national campaign director for the Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonprofit organization with an adjoining political committee that has devoted its efforts to tracking the House leader. Its heavily trafficked Web log, the "Daily DeLay" compiles negative articles about Mr. DeLay's activities. It spent some $200,000 in his district in the 2004 campaign, according to Mr. Donnelly, and has circulated an online petition demanding that Mr. DeLay quit.
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Post by michelle on Oct 4, 2005 4:59:31 GMT 4
He's back for more. Hasn't some of the news become more fun lately? My Poll: Who thinks Tom DeLay would look good in stripes?Oct 3, 8:00 PM EDT Grand Jury Re-Indicts DeLay on New Charge By APRIL CASTRO Associated Press Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas grand jury on Monday re-indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to launder money and money laundering after the former majority leader attacked last week's indictment on technical grounds. The new indictment, handed up by a grand jury seated Monday, contains two counts: conspiring to launder money and money laundering. The latter charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison. Last week, DeLay was charged with conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws. Read the rest: tinyurl.com/bdwcq
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Post by michelle on Oct 20, 2005 0:14:39 GMT 4
Texas Court Issues Warrant for DeLayBy SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writer Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:14 PDT A Texas court issued a warrant Wednesday for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to appear for booking, where he is likely to face the fingerprinting and photo mug shot he had hoped to avoid. Bail was initially set at $10,000 as a routine step before his first court appearance on conspiracy and money laundering charges. Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County jail for booking. The warrant was "a matter of routine and bond will be posted," DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin said. The lawyer declined to say when DeLay would surrender to authorities but said the lawmaker would make his first court appearance Friday morning. The charges against the Texas Republican stem from allegations that a DeLay-founded Texas political committee funneled corporate money into state GOP legislative races through the National Republican Party. Texas law prohibits use of corporate money to elect state candidates. DeLay is charged with conspiracy to violate state election laws and money laundering, felony counts that triggered House Republican rules that forced him to step aside as majority leader. Two separate indictments charge that DeLay and two political associates had the money distributed to state legislative candidates in a roundabout way — sending it from the political action committee in Texas to the Republican National Committee in Washington and finally back to candidates' campaigns. DeLay has denied wrongdoing. The effort had major political consequences, first by helping Republicans take control of the Texas Legislature in the 2002 elections. The Legislature then redrew congressional boundaries according to a DeLay-inspired plan, took command of the state's U.S. House delegation and helped the GOP retain its U.S. House majority. tinyurl.com/9y9ht
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Post by DT1 on Oct 20, 2005 5:08:21 GMT 4
There is no way he is going down Alone... Let's hope he betrays his corporate pimps as he has his constituents. The more 'good ol boy network types' the better. I suspect if the right buttons are pushed he could bring down half of this hopelessly corrupt government to save his skin...I am rather certain that this goes straight to the top. The Bushes and the Delays have done business for a very long time Perhaps an independent counsel without an off-switch could do some 'fact-finding' It would be the last nudge for this disgusting administration which is already wobbling on the edge of the abyss...
Updated Oct 23rd,as the Delay implosion continues... DeLay Booked in Houston on Charges By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer Thu Oct 20, 7:28 PM ET
HOUSTON - Rep. Tom DeLay turned himself in Thursday at the sheriff's office and was fingerprinted, photographed and released on $10,000 bail on conspiracy and money-laundering charges.
ADVERTISEMENT Accompanied by his attorney, Dick DeGuerin, the former House majority leader showed up about midday, appeared before a judge and was gone in less than 30 minutes, sheriff's Lt. John Martin said.
"Now Ronnie Earle has the mugshot he wanted," DeGuerin said, referring to the Travis County district attorney who brought the charges. DeLay and his lawyer have accused the district attorney of trying to make headlines for himself.
The Texas Republican is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Friday in Austin. The charges forced DeLay to give up his House leadership post.
The defense later Thursday asked Judge Bob Perkins to step aside and for the trial to be moved out of Travis County. Perkins has donated to causes and people opposed to DeLay, and his impartiality might be questioned, the motion said.
The motion listed 34 contributions from Perkins, which included donations to John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004; MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group; and national, state and local Democratic committees.
Earle said he would oppose the motion to move the trial, and criticized the request that the judge step aside.
"The logic behind the defendant's motion to recuse Judge Perkins would mean that no criminal defendant could be tried in a court presided over by a judge who did not belong to the defendant's poltical party," Earle said in a statement.
The change-of-venue motion cited media attention and noted that Austin, widely perceived as a liberal town, is "one of the last enclaves of the Democratic Party in Texas."
DeLay had been expected to turn himself in in his home county outside Houston, Fort Bend, where a horde of reporters awaited. But under Texas law, he could check in anywhere in the state.
DeGuerin said he and DeLay went to the sheriff's office in Houston because it was convenient and because "I wanted to avoid the circus."
"That's what Ronnie (Earle) wanted. He wanted a perp walk and we did not want to do it," the defense attorney said.
DeLay and two political associates are charged in an alleged scheme to funnel corporate donations to candidates for the Texas Legislature. State law prohibits donations of corporate money for direct campaign purposes.
With DeLay's help, the GOP won control of the Texas House, and the Legislature then pushed through a congressional redistricting plan that sent more Republicans to Washington.
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