DeLay: ‘I Cannot Run For Office’ In Texas, ‘I’m Ineligible’
DeLay: ‘I Cannot Run For Office’ In Texas, ‘I’m Ineligible’
Earlier this month, a federal district court ruled that former Rep. Tom DeLay’s name must stay on the ballot in Texas even though he withdrew from the race and moved to Virginia. Recently, the media has reported that DeLay is planning an “aggressive campaign to retake the House seat†should the ruling be upheld on appeal.
Today on Fox, DeLay was asked by Neil Cavuto if he still had a chance to win the election. DeLay said, “I cannot run for office [in Texas]” because “I’m ineligible.†Watch it:
DeLay also trashed the federal district court decision as “a policy statement instead of a ruling” and expressed confidence that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals would “turn it around.” Election Law blog explains that the ruling is on soild constitutional ground and argues that “there is good chance this opinion is upheld on appeal.â€
Transcript:
CAVUTO: I’ve noticed now a judge has ruled you’re still on the ballot, so you could conceivably still win this thing. What’s the deal?
DELAY: Well, we had a Democrat federal judge make a policy statement instead of a ruling. I think the Fifth Circuit will look at the law, look at the constitution and understand that the voters of the 22nd district need a choice. I’m a resident of Virginia. I live in Virginia. I’m working in Virginia and Washington, DC. I’ve established a legal defense fund, a speakers bureau. I’m even working on a book and working with conservative groups. I’m making my living in Washington, DC, so by the Constitution, I cannot run for office and I’m ineligible. So I don’t know what this judge is doing, but I think the Fifth Circuit will turn it around.
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July 12th, 2006 at 5:50 pmBoo f***ing hoo. Criminal.
July 12th, 2006 at 5:51 pmHa. He doesn’t want to run of the seat. He wants to fund-raise full time.
But the TX court is going to FORCE him on the ballot. And he’s gonna win.
July 12th, 2006 at 5:56 pmI’m sure the Bush Republicans are working night and day to find a way to change the law before election day so that DeLay can do whatever he wants, free from the law. I mean, they did it before and I’m sure they’ll do it again.
Personal politics above country, that’s the Bush Republican way.
July 12th, 2006 at 5:58 pmChase, don’t you even read what Delay says. He’s ineligible and even he sources the constitution. Pick your battles better. The Texas court is just abiding by the law. what a concept huh?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:01 pmThat Democrat federal judge was appointed by George H.W. Bush back in 1991 and DeLay removed the case from state court to prevent the Democrats from having the case decided by “the liberal state court of their choice.”
Hilarious.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:02 pmI, for one, look forward to the day when this criminal no longer appears on national television. I’m sick of his botoxed mug.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:06 pmTom looks like he came out of a fight with vini pass. And, i\’m sure OK – here\’s the deal. You may or may not need a sub floor to lay tile or stone there. Not a big deal, just something to bear in mind. So this is a very ballpark figure which includes materials, installation and sub floor using the same limestone tiles that Spa Docs have in their waiting room. Again, this is just for the purpose of deciding whether or not this is a possibility, $5500 – $6000. If we did it in ceramic tile, it would probably be $4500-$5000. Considerably more than carpet but you never have to replace it. You could probably do it for even less if you got a really cheap ceramic tile but we both know he, you nor I are ever going to like the looks of the blue light specials, not to mention the really cheap ones crack and chip and don\’t always stand up well, especially in that setting. Be in touch – Ann
July 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pmI’m not really clear why Delay cannot withdraw his name from the ballot. He doesn’t even live in Texas anymore, and I know he was unsure of victory in his district. What is the basis the judge used for ruling he had to stay on the ticket?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:08 pmWhen you steal an election does the “winner” have to be on
July 12th, 2006 at 6:09 pmthe ballot?
Seems like a minor quibble, really.
#9 ummmm… because the Texas constitution is too liberal?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:12 pmMaybe Tom Delay can go on and have a great career foing celebrity endorsements. He would be the perfect spokesman for Massengil Douchebags.
Tom, don’t miss your calling.
-GSD
July 12th, 2006 at 6:15 pmI’m even working on a book
WIth Ann Coulter shockingly absolved of plagarism, the moral beacon of integrity himself must be penning, I mean copying and pasting, his own version of the Bible… Except that there are only eight commandments and The Gospel of Delay will replace the entire ‘Book of Job’.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:21 pmSeriously though, don’t you think that if someone decides they don’t want to run for office, they should have the right to quit the race?
Thinking about it, I guess you could trojan horse a poor candidate into office this way. Put an acceptable candidate to win the primary, then have them jump ship and put some weirdo in. the best time for Delay would have been before the primary. Not using the primay to decide if he could win.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:23 pmUnbelievable,
I used to work for Kinko’s, and we used to have this crazy guy would would come in, and was literally cutting and pasting his own bible together. Creepy man too, he would mumble to himself in corner, and get mad at people and stuff. We finally kicked him out and told him not too come back.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:29 pmeverything is liberal judges.
Next, the repugs are going to tell us that Ken Lay was innocent, and that Abramoff is innocent, and that the problem lies in the activist judges and liberal prosecutors.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:39 pmTom is forced to play by the rules and is ticked off.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pmLiberalism has nothing to do with this, its called the rule
of law, you know, what democracy is based on. You know democracy
dont you, republicans wish to spread it all over the world.
But gee do we have to practice it here at home?
#5 –
Do you not understand what’s going on here?
DeLay doesn’t want to be on the ballot. He resigned. He resigned so that another Republican could be on the ballot.
The Texas Democratic Party sued to keep his name on, and thus far, has won in court. So in essence, the Court is requiring him to run, against his will.
He is appealing. I hope he stays on the ballot. That will be the topper on Nov 8th.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pmWhy no talk in the MSM or most blogs of Israel’s invasion of Gaza under false pretenses or their invasion of Lebanon? When they finally suck Syria in by attacking them, the U.S. will have their reason to attack both Syria and Iran in (false)defense of Isreal. It looks like it starting to take shape right now.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:56 pmChase the mental case, what a dope
July 12th, 2006 at 6:58 pm#19
I second that
July 12th, 2006 at 6:58 pmActually no one is making him run. He ran in the primary for the seat, he then withdrew his name. Thats all well and good, but he did run for the primary and won, thus his name goes on the ballot. Actually if he is ineligible the days after the primary, he was ineligible before the primary. In other words he should brough up on charges of voter fraud.
July 12th, 2006 at 6:58 pmHe would be the perfect spokesman for Massengil Douchebags.
-GSD
Ooooo, what flavor? Fire ant…?
July 12th, 2006 at 6:59 pm#20 – Thanks!
#22 – He ran for the primary before he decided to move to Virginia and resign. At the time of the primary, he still held his primary residence in TX.
Because of TX law, there is a deadline that must be met if another candidate is going to be on the ballot for the GOP.
DeLay doesn’t want to be on the ballot. He considers himself ineligible to run for that office. A federal district court did not agree, saying he was eligible and must remain on the ballot.
At least get the story right.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:03 pmAhhh… TP… I hate to break this to you… but… since when does “solid constitutional ground” amount to anything???
Al Gore’s recount of Florida was on “solid constitutional ground”… and we all know how that turned out!
The Courts are about as biased (to the Republican side) as Congress and the White House are!!
July 12th, 2006 at 7:04 pmWe finally kicked him out and told him not too come back.
Comment by Krazny — July 12, 2006 @ 6:29 pm
Funny the people Ronald Reagan is responsible for putting on the streets, huh? Sounds like the poor guy could have used some serious medical attention. There were a group of them in Boise who would hang out in the library. Odd how many mentally disabled people are overly religious…
Too bad Tom doesn’t wet himself in public yet… The neocons might kick him out and tell him not to come back as well.
I just remember someone calling Tom Delay Jesus-like. His own version of the Bible, since Jerry Falwell is working on his, seemed approriate… :)
July 12th, 2006 at 7:04 pmHe’s ineligible for human being as well, but that doesn’t seem to stop him….
July 12th, 2006 at 7:15 pmA federal district court did not agree, saying he was eligible and must remain on the ballot, Good, if he can run, I hope he does.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:21 pm#28 – I hope you a Republican.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:23 pmSomeone should print toilet paper with Tom Delay’s face on it. I want to poop on him.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:26 pmGod himself is relieved that this Texas demon isn’t running for anything.
dog catcher, even.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:38 pmDelay ran in the primary to spite a couple of the contenders in his own party, as they weren’t conservative enough. I don’t know if he planned on stepping down before or after, but I’m sure that he thought they would be able to hand pick his successor. Since he still has a house in Sugarland, I believe the Judge considers him a Texas resident. Maybe he can produce a VA drivers license? I find it funny he uses the term “liberal judges” in Texas as well whenever he loses a court case. He gerrymandered the state, where judges are elected, and still loses. I’m glad I live in district 11 and not 22!
July 12th, 2006 at 7:39 pmDelay ran a primary campaign for one reason and that was to raise money which, incidentally, was used to pay some of his legal fees. Why don’t we hear from Sugarland Republicans regarding how THEY feel about being swindled by Delay? We get the opnions of pundits, political operatives, and anyone else with a working keyboard. Where are the voices of Sugarland? Is there not one person outraged at being ripped off by Delay?
July 12th, 2006 at 7:40 pmHope he runs.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:41 pmIn addition, Rove owns a house in DC and Kerrville, Texas, but votes in Texas as a resident. He had to pay back taxes in DC bexause he was claiming both. So just owning a house out of state doesn’t remove your residency.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:42 pm#32 – Being a Texan, you obviously know the judge who decided this case was a federal judge, appointed to the court (not elected as you say).
He was, in fact, a Democrat nominated by GHW Bush.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:42 pm#35 – In addition, he is now registered to vote in Virginia and is employed in Virginia (where he plans to live full-time after the election, so that he can raise a chingo de lana for the GOP).
July 12th, 2006 at 7:45 pm#36 – what is your point?
July 12th, 2006 at 7:46 pmCaption Contest:
”Dude,don’t bogart that doobie.”
July 12th, 2006 at 7:48 pm#38 – Just pointing you that when you say this:
you’re wrong.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:53 pm# 19. Jason:
If that’s the case,then we’ll just have get our ass kicked by Iran and Syria,like Iraq already has.
July 12th, 2006 at 7:57 pm#37 Is that kind of like Santorum living in VA? Or don’t you have a problem with that?
July 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pmAren’t we ever going to be free of him?
July 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pmGood riddance, Tom, and don’t let the door hitcha where the good lord splitcha.
In an election held today, even Mel Carnahan could beat Tom DeLay.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:09 pm#42 – I have no idea about Sen Santorum’s living arrangements. If he lives in VA, he shouldn’t be representing PA.
I think come Nov 9th, that question will be moot.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:10 pmDelay ran in the district primary where only 6-7% of the Republican voters came out to vote. He received 50+% of that 6-7%. Where I come from (CT) that’s a pretty poor showing.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:10 pm#40 So you are saying that judges aren’t elected in Texas? Chase, I’ve read enough of your posts to realize that you post solely for the sake of derailing the thread. Either compose a debateable point that is on topic (besides “your wrong”), and maybe someone else will take your bait. Delay gerrymandered the state, Texas judges are elected, Delay calls judges liberals, and tried to have his case moved from Travis county because of liberal judges. Moving on….
July 12th, 2006 at 8:11 pm#47 – You were wrong, my friend.
The federal judge who decided this case (the one the thread is about, by the way) was not elected.
State judges are. They didn’t play a role in this case.
Now his upcoming trial, yeah, that’s in Travis Co. That judge is elected.
But then again, that’s not the topic of the thread. So who’s thread-jacking now?
July 12th, 2006 at 8:16 pmhase is correct on the state vs. federal judge issue in Texas. That’s a first!
July 12th, 2006 at 8:52 pmChase is correct on the state vs. federal judge issue in Texas. That’s a first! – sorry for the mistake in post #49.
July 12th, 2006 at 8:54 pm$# 45 No, the point is not moot. Yes, Santorum is history, but do you think it is ok for someone who is not living in the state he is elected in to run in said state? A little background, he has a house in PA…he does not live there.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:29 pm#51 –
I thought I was clear on this: no I don’t think it’s all right at all.
It’s one thing to have a house in VA, it’s another to have a primary residence there.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:33 pmYou got what you wanted. DeLay is gone. Now leave him alone and let him live his life. You people are no better than Stalin’s thought police. You would gas the right if you weren’t such a bunch of cowards.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:34 pm#52 No, you didn’t make it clear. You made it seem as though because you know he will lose that it doesn’t matter anyway. He should not be on the ballot.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:39 pm#53 That is pathetic. This asshole is the reason there is still a slave trade in the Marianas. He is the reason there are still FORCED ABORTIONS there. Are you pro-forced abortion?
July 12th, 2006 at 9:40 pm#53 I didn’t get what I wanted, yet…I want to see the son of a bitch in jail with bubba begging for more K-Y. DeLay is a sorry excuse for even the GOP. Let he and that man witch Ann Coulter claw each other’s eyes out…if this is the GOP the democrats should advertise them as their opponents…the party of Neo-Fascist pigs.
July 12th, 2006 at 9:55 pmStop the Witch Hunt: When you have to visit a left-leaning blog to defend a shithead like DeLay it’s time for a hobby. It must pain you to think DeLay or any GOP stooge wouldn’t spend 10 seconds defending you for anything. All they want from you is your vote–they have sold “conservatives” down the river for the failed neocon policies of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rove. How does it feel to be part of Bush’s “new conservatism?” with all the big government, free spending, budget busting, intruding on privacy, spying on Americans, and enough corruption to make Nixon blush?
July 12th, 2006 at 10:18 pmYous can always run for office somewheres else.
July 12th, 2006 at 11:11 pmYou got what you wanted. DeLay is gone. Now leave him alone and let him live his life. You people are no better than Stalin’s thought police. You would gas the right if you weren’t such a bunch of cowards.
Comment by Stop the Witch Hunt
July 12th, 2006 at 11:23 pm==================
It’s called projection.
DeLay needs to go back to work spraying for termites in Texas > lol. Tom is a 100% jerk!
July 12th, 2006 at 11:34 pmon soild constitutional ground
theres that soild gottdarn piece of paper again =]
July 13th, 2006 at 12:16 amWhy no talk in the MSM or most blogs of Israel’s invasion of Gaza under false pretenses or their invasion of Lebanon? When they finally suck Syria in by attacking them, the U.S. will have their reason to attack both Syria and Iran in (false)defense of Isreal. It looks like it starting to take shape right now.
Comment by Jason — July 12, 2006 @ 6:56 pm
Errr… do ya think it has anything to do with the fact that 90% of the MSM is owned by Zionists?
Naaaahhhh…
July 13th, 2006 at 2:48 pmwhen it was 1st announced – nothing but cheering from the libs – they all thought they had figured out a way to win an election. fast forward – Delay is still on the ticket, now libs crying like babies again. pretty funny
July 13th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI wonder why the Dhimicrats lobbied so hard to not have a Republican on te ballot? Oh that’s right if they don’t have a Republican on the ballot maybe (just maybe) they will win. It will be funny when a Republican wins this seat as an indy or a write in!
July 13th, 2006 at 3:00 pmDidn’t DeLay’s attorney read the judge’s ruling to him? Where he says he lives now is irrelevant. It’s where he lives on election day that matters, so says our constitution. But I guess that answers the question of whether he intends to run against Lampson. GO NICK
July 13th, 2006 at 3:07 pmwhen it was 1st announced – nothing but cheering from the libs – they all thought they had figured out a way to win an election. fast forward – Delay is still on the ticket, now libs crying like babies again. pretty funny
Comment by Big John — July 13, 2006 @ 2:51 pm
Odd. Perhaps I’m mistaken, but didn’t notice that any Liberals were crying that he was on the ballot. I was under the impression that the Democratic party actually preferred to have him on the ballot because all his corruption charges will insure a loss for the GOP.
Seems like a fitting strategic maneuver after all of DeLay’s gerrymandering of the state. Republican’s don’t seem to mind his redistricting of the state… that’s for sure.
Ultimately both parties are playing dirty. What do you want? This is the current sad state of affairs that we find ourselves in… in what has in effect become just another banana republic as far as politic corruption is concerned.
The only solution is to wipe both parties off of the political map and start over again. It’s beyond repair. The sooner you guys realize that, the better off we’ll all be.
July 13th, 2006 at 3:09 pmTom,
Go blow Jack & Ralph.
You’ve got time now, (& more coming), and
you certainly owe them both a good bj.
Tom, you’re a chickenshit chickenhawk that
whines like a little baby. Jesus like? I DON’T
THINK SO!! Jesus kept his composure with
spikes through his appendages. You whine like
the little SOB you are if just one thing doesn’t
go your way. Policy, indeed. Well, if that judge’s
‘policy’ means no more of your ugly face & whining
then that’s a policy I support.
Good riddance, you sniveling little boob.
P.S: I just talked to Jesus last night. He says he
July 13th, 2006 at 3:24 pmhasn’t heard from you since you moved to Virginia.
Oh wait! He doesn’t take calls from K Street.
DeLay doesn’t need to be on the ballot. He can withdraw his name. What Republicans in his district can’t do is add a different name to the ballot. No one’s forcing Tom DeLay to run for anything.
Right?
July 13th, 2006 at 5:29 pmTexas Democrats Go To Court To Keep DeLay On Ballot
July 13th, 2006 at 9:56 pmby georgia10
Fri Jun 09, 2006 at 08:04:07 AM PDT
And things get even more interesting in TX-22:
In a surprise twist to the Tom DeLay saga, the Texas Democratic Party filed suit Thursday in an attempt to keep the resigning Republican Congressman’s name on the November ballot.
The suit, filed in Travis County 126th District Court, seeks to undo an hours-old declaration by Republican Party Chair Tina Benkiser that DeLay is ineligible to run in the general election.
If DeLay doesn’t serve as the party’s candidate for Congressional District 22, then according to the Texas Election Code, no other candidate is allowed to replace him, the suit says.
Lawyers for Houston’s Riddle & Brazil law firm, which filed the action, obtained a temporary restraining order at about 5:10 p.m. from Judge Darlene Byrne. Sources familiar with the case said the order prevents Benkiser from calling a meeting of the so-called District Executive Committee or taking other measures to replace DeLay as the Republican Party nominee for CD-22.
You can read the filing here (PDF) (h/t TPM) At issue is whether the public record “conclusively” proves that DeLay is a resident of Virginia–and therefore ineligible to remain on the ballot. If it’s “conclusive” that he is a Virginia resident, the state GOP can remove his name from the ballot and add another. If it’s not “conclusive” (or if the Texas Dems win on their constitutional argument), then DeLay’s name must remain on the ballot–even though he has officially resigned from Congress today.
As for the evidence presented:
The Republican Party’s lawyers provided copies of DeLay’s driver’s license, voter registration and application for state tax withholding — all issued in Virginia since his announcement in April. Dunn countered with DeLay’s homestead exemption for his Sugar Land residence plus his affidavit when he filed for re-election that he would be eligible to serve in Congress.
Dunn said the public record is not conclusive. At best, Dunn argued, the records show DeLay has two residences and he could be eligible to serve if he lived in Texas “when elected” in November. Republican Party lawyers argued that DeLay’s intent is the deciding factor.
The temporary restraining order is in effect for 14 days. A hearing on a temporary injunction will be held on June 22nd.
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Lessons from Tom DeLay – How to Rig A Texas Election
Chapter 1: Avoiding a Special Election and Hand Picking Your Candidate
Situation
You are a powerful but controversial incumbent politician who is embroiled in a bribery scandal and under indictment for money laundering. You must resign your seat to avoid an embarrassing defeat at the polls and to use your campaign funds to pay legal fees. However, you want to retain influence in order to hand pick a successor beholden to you. Follow the simple steps below.
Step 1
Remain a candidate until after your party primary has passed. If necessary, make bold statements declaring that you will win the race. This will protect your tough guy image and most importantly keeps campaign contributors on the hook and giving as long as possible.
“I plan to run a very vigorous campaign, and I plan to win it,” he [DeLay] said. (Source: The Associated Press – March 4, 2006).
Step 2
Soon after the primary, announce that you are not going to run after all. This is tricky. You need to announce quickly following the primary, so you can protect as much campaign cash as possible for your legal bills. Don’t announce too soon though, because you don’t want to trigger a special election on May 13, a statutory election day in Texas. (Source: Texas Election Code § 41.001) An announcement during the first week of April is just about right.
Step 3
Exploit a loophole in the Texas election law that allows you to be replaced on the ballot if you revoke your Texas residence and agree to move out of state. Be prepared to take some criticism.
Good Lord, are we Texans ever fortunate that Tom DeLay wasn’t at the Alamo. If he had been, when Col. William B. Travis drew that line in the sand, Tom would have said, “Are you crazy? I’m moving to Northern Virginia.” (Source: John Kelso – Austin American Statesman Friday, April 07, 2006)
Step 4
Direct the Governor to not use his authority under the Texas Election Code Section 41.0011 to call an emergency special election, even if it means voters will be without a Member of Congress for over four months while key votes on congressional appropriations will be taken.
(Tip for first-timers: This step goes smoother if you have a highly partisan, but very weak, Governor whom you have successfully bullied in the past).
Step 5
Now, pre-empt the Governor and announce that there will be no special election. It’s important to make your announcement first. That way everyone knows who’s really in charge. Ideally, make the announcement in a safe, far right wing venue so you won’t get any tough questions. It is ok to ignore the widely reported provision that allows the Governor to call an emergency special election on non-uniform election days. (Source: Texas Election Code Section 41.0011, The Houston Chronicle April 7, 2006)
RUSH: But you are going to retire or resign in enough time for there to be a special election so that —
CONGRESSMAN DeLAY: No, there won’t be a special election. Texas has a law that there’s only two dates that you can have a special election, November and May, and this weekend the deadline for the May special election will have passed.
RUSH: So it’s going to be an open seat election in November?
CONGRESSMAN DeLAY: Yes.
(Source: Rush Limbaugh Show, April 5, 2006)
Step 6
Finally, don’t go soft or lose your edge. Keep your “dirty tricks team†in the district working and scheming. If your old opponent stages a news conference, send a team in to wreck it. You’ll need them sharp when your hand picked candidate is ready to go.
“Let’s give Lampson a parting shot that wrecks his press conference,” read a mass e-mail to supporters by DeLay campaign manager Chris Homan. (Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, April 7, 2006) Watch the Video
Step 7 – Only for use by those under indictment
A State Legislature can be a useful tool to threaten a State prosecutor. You bought the legislature, use it. Here is how it’s done:
Transcript from Fox News Radio’s Tony Snow Show:
SNOW: Okay, so at this point, you know — are you willing to let bygones be bygones?
DELAY: Absolutely not. Texas should not allow a district attorney from Travis County have this kind of power. And they can take his power away from him because there was the Texas legislature that gave him this power. And I think that will happen in the next session of the Texas legislature.
SNOW: Oh, really?
DELAY: Yes.
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This website is dedicated to ground zero for Tom DeLay. It’s mostly about local politics. Nevertheless, you folks from foreign states can better understand what kind of people go the polls and make a concerted effort to put a pencil mark beside Tom’s name every other November. Trust me; it ain’t pretty.
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April 6 – BREAKING! Some pictures now.
I also have a news report partially showing Marsha getting “wrecked.” It’s at 21 seconds. It’s short. It also shows a Republican woman telling a very Christian lie. When asked, “Who sent you” by a reporter, she lies.
I will soon post photographs of a “demonstration” (read: violent disruption) of Nick Lampson’s news conference this morning in Sugar Land. Tom DeLay’s campaign and a member of the State Republican Executive Committee called for volunteers to meet on the first floor of the parking garage and “wreck” Lampson’s press conference.
One elderly Democratic woman was slightly injured when she was assaulted by a DeLay protester. The male DeLay supporter first hit her in the face with a sign and then grabbed her hat and tried to pull it down over her eyes. Think about this: Your Congressman asked his supporters to go out and assault old women. Okay, “wreck” them. But, that’s all right because one of the Democrats shoved the DeLay protestor away from the elderly woman. We ain’t doing non-violent protests when it comes to protecting our elderly.
But that’s all right. It’s all right. They’re just helping prove what a stone-cold hypocrite DeLay and his supporters are. One day DeLay laments the “polarization” in the district and how horrible it is. The next day, he calls a hit.
I’m at my computer now. Bob Dunn will probably have pictures before I do because he’s better at this internet stuff than I am.
A direct quote from an email Chris Homan sent out –
We would meet tomorrow morning at 9:45 am on the first floor of the parking garage attached to the Marriott. Please get folks to call our campaign office 281.343.1333 and let us know they can do it – or e-mail Leonard Cash (in the cc field above) so that we can get some head count. Let’s give Lampson a parting shot that wrecks his press conference.
(Emphasis mine)
This is a statement from Marsha Rovai, the 70 year old retired CPS caseworker I spoke about above,
“I can’t believe my Congressman, Tom DeLay, would organize this type of assault,†Rovai said. “I was assaulted by two different people. One of the men hit me and another shoved his sign into my face, and then when I pushed his sign away he violently pulled my hat down over my eyes and pushed me. I’m considering filing an assault charge. This is just very upsetting and I’m so disappointed in Tom Delay for organizing this attack.â€
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April 5 – Okay, I know you’ve been seeing some crazy scary stuff coming out of District 22 lately, but Tom’s so-called “resignation†only fueled the fires of insanity.
The Fort Bend County Republican party chairman (who doesn’t even live in the county anymore), a major candidate in the run-off for a new party chair (Gary Gillen) , and one of the hopeful candidates to replace Delay (Harris County Judge Bob Eckels) announced ….. (kinda try to prepare yourself for this) ……. that they didn’t see any need to have a special election because not having a Congressman between June and January “wouldn’t hurt the district.†There reasoning is that Congress wouldn’t be in session much of the time anyway.
No, I’m not kidding. Look at this. All they can talk about is what is best for the Republican party. They don’t give a big bear’s butt about the district or its citizens.
Okay, Dumb Guys, what if there’s a hurricane this summer? Don’t we need a Congressvarmint to help with FEMA and do some hollering? What if we go to war or Baghdad falls to the insurgents? We don’t have anyone representing us? What if a national emergency happens?
Most importantly, what about constituent services? Who is going to help the poor widow lady who has problems with her pension? Will we get no appointments to West Point or the Naval Academy? Who do we call with our opinion about bills? Who will help our veterans with problems with the VA? Who will attend the funerals of our war dead?
Dammit. Dammit. Dammit. If these idiots get their way, I’m holding a tea party at the Brazos River. I’m not kidding. I’ve got some Lipton Tea Bags and I’ll meet you there. They want taxation without representation. Over. My. Dead. Body. It ain’t happenin’. I have earned the right to have my voice heard in Congress and I’ll be a monkey’s uncle before I let some cheap local political hacks take that away from me.
Be sure to note the part of the article where the perhaps-future county chair says that a special election would be a “circus†because anybody can run. Yeah, like Democrats and Libertarians and Independents and folks you have no control over. You know, like real democratic elections. Oh, hide the children!
On the other hand, my Libertarian friend says it’s not a bad idea to be without a Congressman. We could use these six months to try it out and if it works, we could do it everywhere else and just get rid of Congress. He thinks they’re as worthless as a four card flush anyway.
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April 5 – There’s one thing I know sure as a Grandmother’s love: the Republicans are violating the law by putting a candidate up to fill DeLay’s spot in the November election. They can spin this until all their psychedelic colors blend into a purple haze, but Texas law does not allow you to replace a candidate because he sees that he’s going to lose.
They are violating the law and making a mockery of the electoral process. What scares me is that they’ve had so much practice that they are getting darned good at it.
Let me give you an idea of how truly wicked and arrogant their youngsters have become. Another local blogger pointed me to a perfectly serious statement a couple of local young Republican bloggers think is a dandy idea. I’m quoting directly from their blogs.
If there is any ambiguity over whether the GOP can replace DeLay on the ballot in November, won’t the state legislature simply rewrite/clarify the election code in the upcoming special session in a few weeks?
It’s pretty likely that this will be litigated, and equally likely that the GOP will be allowed to replace DeLay on the ballot. So perhaps the legislature will attempt to change the code.
So, if they law isn’t in your favor, change the law? This is the arrogance and win-at-all-costs morality that they teach their children. Even aside from that, isn’t having the State Lege act like a bunch of Republican bullies what got us into this mess in the first place?
Meanwhile, the Republican Party Chairman in Fort Bend County does not want a special election because he’s afraid that Democrat Nick Lampson will win it. Instead of letting the voters decide who will be the GOP nominee, he wants to decide it behind closed doors with some other fluffy white boy friends of his.
The intellectual dishonesty of local Republicans is what made me a straight ticket Democrat this year.
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April 4 – The email bag is overflowing. I posted a few so enjoy and I’ll post some more tomorrow.
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April 4 – How you know it’s really, really over.
Some neighbors of mine, who live around the corner, kept their DeLay sign up long after the primary election. The man of the household (and I use both of those terms loosely) said he did it because he knew I had to drive by it every day and he wanted to hack me off. Sounds a little passive-aggressive to me, so I didn’t let the sign bother me, figuring it was a mental health issue and I don’t screw around with crazy people.
This morning as I drove by, I couldn’t help but notice ….. well, a picture is worth a thousand words and I only know about 457 of them so I’ll let you take it from there.
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April 4 – Okay, I’ve hauled my giddy butt outta bed this morning. Best line I heard all night came in the form of an email from an admired friend who was watching the news reports on teevee,
I just wish the press would stop referring to DeLay as a Texan. It’s makin’ the rattlesnakes feel poorly.
Lucky Pierre
(Cletus’ former roommate)
My prediction is that Tom will continue in his present life-calling and become a teevee evangelist. It’s just like being a Congressman: the hours are good, you can have girlfriends on the side as long as you don’t get caught, you can get stoopid people to give you lotsa money, it helps if your wife cries a lot and can make “Jesus” a three-syllable word, and you get to wear fancy clothes. He’ll hardly know the difference.
In all seriousness, I ain’t playing the “what will happen next” game today because nobody really knows. I hear there’s some question if DeLay can even be replaced on the ballot because there’s a residency quirk in Texas law where you don’t have to live in a district to run for it.
Meanwhile, however, local Republicans are eating each other alive. David Wallace, the pretty Mayor of pretty Sugar Land, has been trying to wear Tom’s shoes while Tom was still in them, and seems to think that he and Bob Perry should be Congressvarmints. Republican political consultants are running all over town trying to get any sucker to run so they can make money off of them. The leaches are thick here, Honey.
It’s my theory that DeLay knew was going to resign before the primary election, which would explain his bizarre behavior of returning to DeeCee on election night for a lobbyist fundraiser. However, instead of letting the voters decide who should replace him, he acted as he always acts — he wants things to be decided in a closed backroom by the good ole boys, not by the voters.
It was simply the last underhanded, mean, and anti-democracy thing he could do to us before he left. Thanks again, Tom.
In answer to a couple of emails this morning, no, I am not shutting down the beauty shop right now. At least not until we insure that another DeLay clone isn’t on the way. (Besides, it’ll be so much fun covering the GOPper infighting over who gets to be the next DeLay.) However, I have accepted a highly lucrative writing position for the upcoming blog kissmybigblueass.org It’s southern women writing about southern politics. It’ll hurt ya, Honey. Once that gets started, I’ll close the shop and leave a forwarding address.
—-more to come —-
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April 3 – 9:10 p.m. – Chris Matthews just announced on MSNBC that he has spoken to Tom DeLay and DeLay is withdrawing from the race tomorrow.
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April 3 – You know that things aren’t lookin’ good when your Congressman starts being referred to as “Representative #2″ by federal prosecutors. Especially when Bob Ney is #1.
In a lead story in Roll Call (sorry, subscription only) today, it appears that federal prosecutors were very careful to insure that Tom DeLay can’t hide behind the same “legal technicality” (their phrase, not mine) that his good buddy Ralph Reed did.
By using conspiracy statutes against Abramoff and the two ex-DeLay aides, prosecutors have been able to use an umbrella approach to any crime committed by the trio without fear of being curbed by a statute of limitations.
and later in the same article …
Another potentially critical element to the Abramoff and Rudy pleas, as related to DeLay, is that their criminal conspiracies begin in 1997 — just as DeLay and Abramoff’s professional relationship went global.
It appears that no one else caught this little nuance by the Feds.
Now DeLay is trying to claim he really wasn’t all that close to Tony Rudy either. DeLay is starting to resemble the Madam of a Whorehouse claiming that she had no idea what was going on upstairs, and she’s just shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that the girls were involved in hanky panky. As far as she knows, the girls just go upstairs and bring back money. Hummmm …. just like things in Tom’s congressional office.
And if you want to laugh a hearty laugh, please check The House that Jack Built in the New York Times.
This is DeLay,
Who built the machine
That redrew the districts
And raised the green,
That decided the races
That claimed the new seats,
That made the new friends
That owned luxury suites,
That held big galas
That brought the donations ……..
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March 31 – Uh oh, Tony Rudy is pleading guilty.
WASHINGTON – A former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the widening federal investigation of lobbyist fraud, a law enforcement official said Friday
Golly, now I understand why the Texas Department of Public Safety doesn’t want Tom DeLay to have a handgun.
Also, today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription only) has a front page story about “The DeLay Family” (Tom’s words for all his former staff). It focuses on Emily Miller, Michael Scanlon, and Tony Rudy. It’s hard to decide which one of these people is the scummiest. Honey, the folks down at Dirt Janochek’s trailer park have far more class than these people do.
Check out this paragraph from the story about Scanlon and Rudy:
The two shared a pit-bull political style and pushed Mr. DeLay to lead the charge in 1998 for the impeachment of President Clinton. “This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is B.S.,” Mr. Scanlon once wrote to Mr. Rudy in an email published in “The Breach,” a book by Peter Baker about the impeachment. “Not only do you kick him — you kick him until he passes out — then beat him over the head with a baseball bat — then roll him up in an old rug — and throw him off a cliff into the pound surf below!!!!!”
And Tom DeLay doesn’t even choke when he talks about “the politics of personal destruction.”
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March 31 – In my never-ending quest to make public records available to the ….. oh, dunno, the public? …. Here are GOP party chair candidate Gary Gillen’s non-computerized filings with the Texas Ethics Commission.
By the way, if Mr. Gillen can’t afford a computer, he can go to the public library and use one for free to file his reports. If he can’t understand how to use a computer, he can get a third grader to help him.
Gillen filing 12/05
Gillen filing 1/06
Gillen filing 2/06
I’ll try like the dickens to get Gillen’s 8 days before election day filings, but I ain’t making no promises. This took a lot of my time and is just darned silly on his part. It’s probably just a little trick he learned from his predecessor.
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March 30 – Tom DeLay is to religion what professional wrestlers are to sports.
It ain’t real, Darlin’.
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March 29 – So, I broke the story of Make My Day DeLay and his handgun permit right here 5 days ago.
The next day, internet bloggers picked it up.
On day 2, some internet news sites picked it up and ran with it. Keith Obermann and Jon Stewert picked it up. Harvey Kronberg picked it up from http://www.fortbendnow.com
On day 3, the national media, including the Houston Chronicle, ran the story.
On day 4, the Fort Texas Herald Coaster Bend Cougar Mellancamp ran the story from the Associated Press without even driving 2 miles to the courthouse to get actual papers.
And today, Jack Cafferty pitched it.
Chutzpah. It means you got some nerve. The disgraced former house majority leader Congressman Tom DeLay has Chutzpah to spare.
He’s under criminal indictment. He’s facing felony charges that could put him in prison. DeLay, nevertheless, thinks he should be allowed to carry a gun. His permit to carry a concealed handgun was suspended in January. This happens when you are indicted. But DeLay doesn’t think the rules should apply to him.
He’s appealing the suspension and he wants a new hearing. A mouth piece for DeLay wouldn’t say if he needs a handgun permit. She said, as for whether or not he carries it, that’s the point of having a concealed handgun license in Texas. Potential criminals should assume everyone is. Does being under indictment make Tom DeLay a potential criminal? That’s not the question.
Here’s the question. Should Tom DeLay be allowed to carry a concealed handgun? Email us your thoughts at caffertyfile@cnn.com or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile.
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March 29 – Senator John Cornyn either has a drinking problem or a talking problem, but whatever it is, he needs to find a cure. Do they have a 12-Step program for stoopid?
BASH: But like anything in politics, there are shades of gray. Senator John Cornyn is a Texas Republican searching for a middle ground. He says illegal immigrants should be able to work in the U.S. legally, but only if they return to their country of origin first.
(on camera): How worried are you about the deep divide within your own party over this issue?
SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R), TEXAS: I really am not worried about it. I think it’s actually healthy.
BASH: You think it’s healthy? In an election year it’s healthy?
CORNYN: Well, you know, that’s the problem in America, we’re always having elections.
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March 29 – Headline: DELAY SAYS CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER ATTACK
Question: How would he know?
Invoking the “glory of God,” former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay urged religious conservatives Tuesday to stand against an American culture he described as hostile to Christianity.
No, Tom, we’re not hostile to Christianity. We’re hostile to cigar-smokin’, gun-totin’, charity-siphonin’, money-greedin’, insider-tradin’, blasted hypocrites whose middle name should be Elmer Gantry. You, Mr. DeLay, are the hostile one among us.
Tom, you’ve wrapped yourself in the flag, the Bible, little children, and hot-shot criminal defense lawyers …. what is left for you to hide behind?
Son, you done honked me off this morning. First thing. Don’t do that again.
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March 29 – Let’s all shout AMEN at Rick Casey.
Here’s my proposal for improving the ethical climate in Texas politics.
Close down the Texas Ethics Commission.
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March 29 – Well heck, we’re back to Tom’s townhouse again, something I’ve been interested in for six years. Well, it seems there’s more hanky-panky involved.
Yesterday we reported that the U.S. Family Network, a sham nonprofit controlled by former DeLay Chief of Staff Ed Buckham and funded by Jack Abramoff’s lobbying clients, sold a Capitol Hill townhouse to Rep. Jim Ryun (R-KS) at a $19,000 loss. Given the hot real estate market in Washington, D.C. at that time, the low sale price raiseed the question of whether transaction was a de facto gift to Rep. Ryun.
Some people suspect they were using the townhouse for floozie sparkin’. I don’t. Those guys don’t like women enough to consort with them. Plus, that wouldn’t hurt enough other people to make it fun. I think they were using it insider day trading.
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March 27- Local Republican politics are getting hotter than a Cadillac bumper on a Del Rio parking lot in July. Most of the hollerin’ and spittin’ is over the GOP county chair race. They aren’t particularly worried about who’s gonna be county attorney or county court judge — you know, jobs that affect us all. No siree, they’re worried about themselves. They are forming a circle and locking and loading.
As I habitually do, I went to the Texas Ethics Commission to check the filings of the two GOP party chair candidates to see who’s donating to them.
Linda Howell filed her forms electronically and even bothered to correct a small mistake. She’s not hiding squat from you.
Gary Gillen, like the current GOP chair, files his by paper. That means you gotta call the Texas Ethics Commission and sweet talk them into mailing you copies of Gillen’s reports. Or drive to Austin and pick them up. Your choice. Okay, I mean my choice. You know I’m gonna do it. I always do.
Certainly Gillen is within the law to file his reports on paper. The law states:
Most individuals or entities filing a campaign finance report with the Texas Ethics Commission are required to file reports electronically unless the individual or entity is eligible to claim a statutory exemption. The legislature changed the allowable exemptions for reports due on or after September 1, 2003. Under the new law, a filer may claim an exemption from electronic filing only if the filer does not use a computer to keep current records of contributions, expenditures, or donors AND if the filer does not exceed $20,000 in political contributions or expenditures in a calendar year. A filer must include an exemption affidavit with each report filed on paper. (Emphasis mine.)
Here’s what the exemption affidavit says;
I further swear or affirm that I do not use computer equipment to keep current records of political contributions, political expenditures, or persons making political contributions to me.
I further swear or affirm that no person acting as my agent or consultant, and no person with whom I contract, uses computer equipment to keep current records of political contributions, political expenditures, or persons making political contributions to me.
Hey, you gotta admire a political candidate in this day and age who uses index cards and a #2 pencil to keep track of things.
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March 27 – It’s our Semi-Monthly “Do As I Say Religious Right Day” here at the beauty shop. Feel free to join in the fun.
First off, there’s Ralph Reed, who lays down with dogs and then seems amazed that he gets up with fleas. On something the Republicans like to call “a legal technicality” Reed escaped time in a Texas pokey.
Texas Travis County Attorney David Escamilla has just released a statement saying that he will not pursue a formal criminal investigation into Ralph Reed’s lobbying activities in Texas. Not because Reed didn’t break any laws – actually he says quite the opposite – but because there is a two-year statute of limitations for prosecuting misdemeanors in Texas. So Reed gets off the hook.
And then, pretending to be Dick Cheney with laryngitis, Justice Antonin Scalia leaves church and wonders what hand gesture Jesus would make.
BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by flipping a middle finger to his critics.
A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state.
“You know what I say to those people?” Scalia replied, making the obscene gesture and explaining “That’s Sicilian.”
No, Your Honor, that’s not Sicilian, that’s just rude, crude, and socially unacceptable. Good Heavens, what would John Marshall say?
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March 26 – Tom DeLay and his religious right brethren are caught with their fingers in the charity cookie jar again.
A top adviser to former House Whip Tom DeLay received more than a third of all the money collected by the U.S. Family Network, a nonprofit organization the adviser created to promote a pro-family political agenda in Congress, according to the group’s accounting records.
DeLay’s former chief of staff, Edwin A. Buckham, who helped create the group while still in DeLay’s employ, and his wife, Wendy, were the principal beneficiaries of the group’s $3.02 million in revenue, collecting payments totaling $1,022,729 during a five-year period ending in 2001, public and private records show.
My almost favorite line in the story is this one —-
It was at this dinner (in the Marianas) DeLay gave the speech in which he called Abramoff “one of my closest and dearest friends,” according to a copy. DeLay also reminded Tan and his colleagues of his earlier promise that no wage and immigration legislation would be passed.
“Stand firm,” DeLay said in his closing. “Resist evil. Remember that all truth and blessings emanate from our Creator.” He then departed with Tan to see a cockfight, according to a written account by one of the trip participants.
Cockfight? Cockfight? Well, I hope they gave Tom’s cock a proper Christian burial.
The half dozen or so of my friends who have followed my writing remember an article I wrote for a local newspaper about US Family Network several years ago. They wouldn’t tell where they got one million dollars for a skybox, a townhouse, and a GMC pickup truck. At the time, I wondered …
Why is Tom so ashamed of who gave him One Million Dollars cash money that he has to keep it a secret? Was it Osama Bin Laden? Buddhist nuns? Proponents of light rail? Phillip Morris?
I then sarcastically suggested that Tom got the money from a local drug dealer who was hiding money in the walls of his house. Turns out that it’s worse than that. Tom DeLay is a secret Commie. He’s a spy for the Soviet Union and the Commies “paid” his “charity” One Million Dollars. Okay, so I’m just supposing about the spy stuff, but why else would they give him One Million Dollars Plus Some More After a Lunch in Houston?
Last year the Washington Post reported that in 1997 Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff went on a lavish golfing junket to Russia that was paid for by NAFTASib, an Abramoff client with “tight connections to the Russian security establishment.”
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But it turns out the junket is the least of the story, because after the trip NAFTASib also gave money to the U.S. Family Network, an advocacy group closely associated with DeLay. Lots of money. A million dollars, in fact. And just what did the Russian security establishment want from DeLay? Did they really spend a million bucks via NAFTASib just to influence DeLay’s vote on an IMF bailout — as one of DeLay’s associates admitted to the Post? Who knows.
But whatever it was for, Peter Stone has a new piece in the National Journal today informing us that even more money was involved than we thought. Through a front company, NAFTASib also donated $250,000 to the U.S. Family Network before DeLay’s trip to Moscow. That payment came shortly after a lunch meeting in Houston, and Stone reports that “the meeting has attracted the attention of federal investigators.”
Then the next thing we know, it turns out that Tom’s Commie friends were feeding information to Saddam in Iraq.
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia had a military intelligence unit operating in Iraq up through the 2003 U.S. invasion and fall of Baghdad, a Russian analyst said Friday as the Pentagon reported Moscow fed Saddam Hussein’s government with intelligence on the American military.
So, while he’s turning in his handgun, why doesn’t he just go ahead and turn in his resignation?
Look, I’m not saying that Tom DeLay is a dirty, rotten, thieving, hypocritical, Cuban-cigar smokin’, Benedict Arnold, Philistine, lyin’, son of motherless goat, but …… no, wait. That’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m saying let’s give him his handgun back and drop his flightsuit-wearin’ butt into downtown Baghdad.
Do I hear an Amen?
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March 24 – UPDATED BREAKING NEWS: Oh my goodness gracious, Dirty Harry DeLay is nosed-up against a roadblock. It seems the Republican controlled Texas Legislature passed a law that if you’re indicted for a felony, you can’t be carrying a concealed handgun, even if you have a license.
Oops.
At the request of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Republican Justice of the Peace Jim Richards signed an order suspending Thomas Dale DeLay’s license to carry a handgun in the State of Texas.
Pistol Packin’ Tom is gonna have to borrow Dick Cheney’s shotgun now.
Click on image to see it life-size.
I just wanted you to be the first to begin wondering why Tom has to pack heat.
I dunno, the more I think about this, the more this seems like a bad idea. Maybe we should just let Tom have the darned handgun. It might be safer.
Here’s the document showing that the Texas Department of Public Safety wants Tom to quit carrying a concealed handgun.
And here’s some papers from one of Tom’s high faluting Austin lawyers saying that he’s gonna appeal this sucker, and take up valuable court time, hoping a judge will legislate from the bench and overrule legislative laws. Ain’t it amazing how some people’s “values” take an abrupt turn when it’s them on the business end of the gavel?
Okay, let me be honest with you. I’m a Democrat. I believe in the Constitution. I believe that you are innocent until proven guilty. I don’t think there should be any punishment for merely being indicted. An indictment is no proof of guilt.
However, Tom DeLay and “his†Texas Legislature – after all, TRMPAC money elected that bunch of clowns we have in Austin – don’t feel that way. They enacted this law to keep handguns away from suspected felons like Tom DeLay.
You made your bed, Tom, now sleep in it.
I believe that good and honest judges gave us civil rights, a 40-hour work week, child labor laws, and keeps us from being a police state. Tom DeLay, however, does not agree.
You ran your bath water, Tom, now start scrubbing.
By the way, Tom’s appeal will be heard by a Republican judge in Fort Bend. I sure hope he follows the law, because Tom has threatened to impeach judges who don’t.
(A salute to Deb for helping me find pictures.)
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March 23 – Well, I guess this picture pretty much explains why Tom DeLay avoided the military draft.
I guess they didn’t have a flight suit in size “Beergut,” so he had to settle for size Dinkydo.
I just want this to serve as a warning to politicians who spend too much time at 5-star hotels, prissy French restaurants, and lounging on corporate jets that this, too, could happen to you. You do not want to look like a penguin in flight suit.
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March 23 – How come every time lobbying money is used for a party, Tom DeLay’s name is involved? I mean, does he hold the franchise on partying with other people’s money? If you have a party, do you have to send him $100?
In case you folks from outta town missed it, Tom is wanting to build a great wall down from Brownsville to the Pacific Ocean. I’m not saying who he’s planning to hire to build this enormous wall, but it might be the same people who were serving his dinner at the country club and building the flower beds out of his children’s home. And I wonder if he’s thought about this? Next hurricane to hit South Texas, that wall is just gonna hold water in like a levee. We Texas good ole boys will be huddled up against that wall sitting in inner tubes clawing at bricks.
I have a better idea, let’s do what we did in 1836. Let’s invade Mexico and take the border to the Panama Canal. Problem solved. No more Republicans elected in Texas.
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March 21 – The bad news? Your Congressvarmint isn’t going to work to earn his salary. The good news? Oh, pretty much the same.
Look, it’s simple: The reason government doesn’t work is because Congress doesn’t.
The House of Representatives is on track this year to be in session for fewer days than the Congress Harry Truman labeled as “do-nothing†during his 1948 re-election campaign.
They are taking 2 weeks off in April, one week in May and July, and all of August. They also took a week off for Saint Patrick’s Day — that must have been some doozy of a hangover, huh Tom?
I dunno — they can’t win a war, get New Orleans or Mississippi rebuilt, control gas prices, finance education, have an understandable drug program for seniors, prepare for emergencies, bring down spending or the national debt, provide armor for our military ….. BUT, they can go on vacation!
However, the worse news of all is that Tom DeLay may be spending August here. As if heat, drought, and fire ants ain’t enough, we have to put up with Tom telling us how to live our lives. Maybe we should go on vacation in August.
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March 20 – Okay, there oughtta be a law and now there is.
Here’s how this is gonna work:
1. You are required by recently enacted law to bring your made-in-China silly little Support Our Troops magnetic car ribbon — which some of you put sideways to look like a fish and really make me wanna come knock on your driver’s side window, calmly wait until you roll it down, and then frighteningly upchuck all over said driver while screaming, “Jesus doesn’t approve of you cutting me off in traffic. It says so right there in the Bible somewhere.†– to the Beauty Shop. If we’re not here, you are required by law to drop it into the night slot.
2. You will then go home and write a letter to your Congressman, your Senators, and your President (if we still have one; it’s kinda hard to tell nowadays). This letter will state in clear concise language that you oppose any more cuts to veteran’s benefits, including education, medical care, and disability. You will put exclamation points in this letter and make a couple of threats about election time.
3. You will sign these letters and bring them to the beauty shop. When you hand me these letter ready to mail, I will smile and kindly return your silly ribbon even though it does no good whatsoever and demeans the American soldier.
4. I do not trust you to get these letters to the mailbox. If somebody can sell you a piece of plastic and make you think that helps the troops, then you can’t be trusted with grown-up things like mailboxes.
The reason I enacted this law is because of a picture a friend sent me from Portland, Oregon, this morning. I need a sign like that!
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March 20 – All you free marketers can kiss my rosy red knee caps.
AUSTIN – Under electricity deregulation, Texans have paid some of the highest rates in the nation — a reversal of at least a decade of relatively cheap electricity under the state’s old regulated system.
That’s the conclusion of a national utility expert, who also reports that those in deregulated states typically have had larger rate increases than customers in states still under regulation. Separate academic reports likewise show, after making adjustments for inflation and other factors, that electricity prices in Texas have gone up since 1996, while those in regulated states have gone down; and that in general terms, electricity prices in the United States have not fallen under competition.
Deregulation: brought to you by the same friendly folks who brought you the idea that we don’t need a law against war profiteering.
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March 19 – I have voted Democratic all my life, and when I die I want to be buried in Duval County where I can continue to vote Democratic.
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March 17 – Where was our courageous budget-cutting Congressvarmint when we really needed him? Was he vote-dodging again?
The Senate voted 52-48 to increase the legal limit on federal borrowing to $8.97 trillion, up from $8.18 trillion. The House avoided an election-year vote on raising the debt limit by automatically sending the bill to the Senate when it passed a budget last year.
It’s official. Conservative Republican has officially become an oxymoron.
Each and every one of us, even your tiny little baby, is $30,000 in debt and we still have no Homeland Security, a won war, emergency preparedness or an answer as to why Ann Coulter has an Adam’s apple.
George Bush and the Republican controlled Congress has borrowed more money from foreign governments than all the past Presidents combined. If Tom DeLay doesn’t have the moral courage to vote against this, I have a well-booted foot and can reach his butt without even working up a sweat.
Remember when DeLay said out of the other side of his mouth …
Let me tell you what we are doing here tonight. You are ordering beefsteak, and you have already ordered it. And you have eaten it, and you have given them your credit card. And then you found out that you are over your credit limit. But because you do not have a constitutional amendment that says you have got to live within your credit limit, you are just going to raise it arbitrarily so that you can continue your spending habits.â€
- Majority Leader Tom DeLay, TX [Cong. Record, 4/1/93]
So he has a new nickname in my book, “Beefsteak.” Pass it on.
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March 16 – Tom DeLay just couldn’t resist being a sore winner on election night. He’s just a nasty little man and that’s all there is to it. If there ever was a gracious bone in his body, it died of atrophy.
It’s not only mean and petty to vilify your opponents on election night, it’s stoopid politics. After claiming this his Republican opponents were valueless, DeLay went on to call them names and even suggested that a couple of them have yet to fully explain where they were on November 22, 1963. Or something close to it.
Pat Baig responded to Delay’s personal attack,
“I believe Tom DeLay embodies the malignancy that is destroying the integrity, credibility and historical cornerstones of the Republican Party. That is why I ran against him. I cannot vote for corruption; therefore, as in ’04, he will not have my vote in ’06.â€
Phew! That Pat knows how to respond, don’t she?
Look, it’s time we face it: Tom DeLay hates everybody, even his own mother. He dropped 15 percentage points in Fort Bend County since the last GOP primary and that’s because he’s mean, insufferable, cocky, and … well, heck, it’s only March and I know a whole mess of adjectives. Drop by around October and see what I really, really think of him.
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March 14 – Paul Kiel happened on another problem for Tom. It seems that the FEC is interested in DeLay buying ARMPAC’s mailing list for pennies on the dollar.
It seems that the FEC had its curiosity piqued when it came across a disclosure for the sale of ARMPAC’s (DeLay’s political action committee) mailing list to DeLay’s Congressional Committee. The disclosure said that the list was worth $3,138.87. That seemed fishy to the FEC; and outside observers agree that it sounds way low. DeLay’s committee responded Friday to their inquiry by saying that the list was “valued by several vendors.” We’ll see if that satisfies the FEC.
Mr. Kiel wonders if Tom has the money to pay a fine, considering that his cash flow is currently tied up in lottery voodoo practitioners and writ twits.
Gary Bauer’s committees got hit with a $46,000 fine last year for a similar problem. $46,000…that’s at least two weeks’ worth of lawyering, no?
Playing cute with the FEC ain’t real bright.
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March 14 – Just when you recover from Tom DeLay talking like an uneducated snake-handling backwoods hick who thinks the rooster really does make the sun rise, along comes Tom’s best buddy, State Representative Charlie Howard. The following was published in a statewide magazine.
No, really. I’m fryin’ if I’m lyin’. Charlie Howard thinks that way.
Short dose of reality for Charlie: The Pythagorean theory is also a theory, but dagnabbit, if you’re going to compute the hypotenuse of a right triangle, there’s not much else that works as good.
Gravity is a theory. I can almost promise you that things don’t fall to the ground because of some magic mojo voodoo thing that Delilah said to Goliath. Gravity is just a theory, but I wouldn’t pick a fight with it if I were you because it’s got better than even odds that it’s gonna win.
This is what happens when we let political scientists mess with real science. They think it’s magic.
Polite suggestions for politicians: If you don’t understand science, shuddup about it because you look like an idiot. Impolite suggestion for politicians: Quit making God look like a tiny little freak with a personality disorder. God is bigger than your head, and that, you twit, is no theory.
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March 13 – Our friend Don from outta town sent us this. He got it secondhand so we don’t know who to thank for the laugh:
The Washington Nationals baseball team is moving to bar lobbyists from holding season’s tickets and box seats….
Seems every time the Indians or the Braves came to town, Jack Abramoff tried to shake them down for a hundred thousand dollars.
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March 13 – We’ve got some breaking news here, Folks. Okay, this is funny if you live here and know the parties involved. It’s even a tad funny if you don’t.
You all recall that Republican County Commissioner Andy “Mr. Politics†Meyers asked for a study about the county’s compliance with HIPAA. The whole purpose of the study was to attempt to embarrass County Clerk Dianne Wilson, who The Boys hate. No, I’m serious, some Republican boys have formed the We Hate Dianne Wilson Club. Most of them are a little prissy and probably hate the fact that she dresses well. We simply call them The Boys’ Club. Best we can figure, Andy Meyers is Vice President.
The responsibility for the study was promptly given to a company owned by retired Sugar Land city councilman Brian Gaston. Gaston is Commish Meyer’s fellow Christian Coalition Poster Boy. The two of them are tighter than petite panty hose on a fat lady. It takes the Jaws of Life to separate them. Neither of them have ever done anything in their 50ish years on this planet without a political motive. I could swear to that on a Bible in a court of law.
It never made sense to me that Gaston would then outsource this work, all $4,000 of it, to a lawyer with a telephone number from Virginia. I mean, why would a lawyer do the work for a whole report for merely $4,000? And with Gaston taking his cut before passing it along, that’s barely worth showing up for. That’s civil lawyer chump change when hired by Fort Bend County. Unless, of course, there was something else in it for the lawyer.
The Boys kept hollering that the need for this report was NOT political and the whole thing was on the up and up.
You know, I’d believe that if it were true. But it ain’t. Come to find out – and you heard it here first — Peter MacKoul, the outsourced lawyer, is living with Brian Gaston in his Sugar Land bachelor pad. How do I know they are roommates? Well, they are both registered to vote at Brian’s house in Sugar Land, 22 Crestwood Circle. Oh my goodness, ain’t that just too cozy!
Additionally, on this website right here, MacKoul list Gaston’s personal home phone number as his business number. Hey Boys, if you’re going to dip in the cookie jar, don’t wear fingerprint dust when you’re doing it.
Well, the $4,000 report didn’t get finished before the primary election in time to embarrass Dianne. So, the Boys decided to try to release an incomplete report. The acting county attorney put her foot down, thank goodness, and stopped the We Hate Dianne Wilson Club in their tracks. Fairness never stands in the way of The Club, so they did what they do best – whined.
By the way, MacKoul is not licensed to practice law in Texas.
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March 13 – Okay, I have stayed out of Fort Bend ISD politics lately for three reasons.
(1) Been there; done that. Ole Doc Raj is now at Phoenix Union High School District and as far as I’m concerned, that’s about 1,000 miles too close to me. I hope he ain’t ripping them off and getting an interest free loan from their school board, but I wouldn’t bet a dime on it. So, after all my hard work getting rid of The Raj, the district gets another Superintendent who’s a jerk and plays loose with tax dollars, too, so … splat on ‘um, I lost interest.
(2) 46% of the county (I counted) figures that this is just another Republican spat, and since it’s the Republican way or the highway around here, there’s not diddle squat we can do about it anyway. Cripes, the school board fight traveled to the New Territory fight and then made a right turn at the “I’m not going to vote for her because she’s friends with her†primary election fight. Good Lord. When the Republican Party chairman gets involved with a supposedly non-partisan school board fight and there’s no Democrats involved at all, that’s a pretty clear indication that this sucker is out of control.
(3) Three-fourths of the county figures that anybody who would elect David Wallace and Allen Owen as mayor pretty much deserves whatever they get. I’m serious. That’s what the rest of us think. The SugarLandcentric folks need to get out more often.
And then there’s the real reason: grown women screeching at each other in public gets on my nerves something fierce and that’s what this has degenerated into. And then to put a cherry on top, Hal Jay is re-running for the school board. Hal Jay. Have mercy on us all. When things get so bad that Hal Jay thinks he can be re-elected, we’re in the handbasket drinking kool-aide.
This is a political website and the worst thing that can happen to a school board is for it to become a political breeding ground for nasty Republican infighting. As tasty as this fight would be for a political humorist, I ain’t biting. This plays right into the hands of the anti-public school capitalists.
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March 10 – Something kinda noteworthy and interesting has happened under the main stream media radar. Not that that shocks anybody anymore.
Barbara Bonfiglio has quit her job at the “mega-lobbying firm” Williams & Jensen.
[Barbara] Bonfiglio was a lobbyist until 2001 and is an authority on election law. She has managed 31 separate political action committees, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Federal records show Bonfiglio was also treasurer for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s leadership PAC.
Why is this important? Bonfiglio was the treasurer of ARMPAC and the secretary of the DeLay Foundation. She knows where all the bodies are buried and could put DeLay away for decades. So Tom either got her fired so he could start the process of discrediting her – or she’s flipped. The IRS takes a very dim view of tax fraud – especially if you are a lawyer or accountant who facilitates it. No law firm could keep a lawyer who testified against her client.
Thanks to Alfredo and Deb for the tip.
And the beat goes on ….
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March 9 – For you folks from foreign states, here’s Tom’s biggest supporters in Fort Bend County, the voting location of Sugar Creek Country Club.
That’s the gauntlet you have to run to vote. Campbell won the sign war, but DeLay won the vote.
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March 9 – The Congressional Quarterly moves the DeLay / Lampson race from “Leans Republican” to “a toss up” after reviewing the GOP primary election returns from Tuesday.
Tom DeLay and his partisans are hailing his primary victory Tuesday as a landslide and vindication from his constituents that the Texas Republican’s legal and ethical problems are behind him.
But the primary result in Texas’ 22nd District — 62 percent for DeLay, 38 percent combined for his three little-known GOP challengers — should give him and his supporters pause. DeLay, who has been very popular in his home base in and near Houston through most of his 12-term career, lost nearly two-fifths of the partisan Republican vote: Tom Campbell, a lawyer who had never run for office before, pulled down 30 percent alone. (County-by-county results)
There’s also another interesting number to come out of the GOP primary voting. DeLay won Brazoria County with 67% of the vote, Galveston County by 69%, Harris County by 73%, but Fort Bend by only 56%. This proves what I’ve always said, “Those who know Tom best like him least.” Here’s a little Ross Perot chart thingy.
Brazoria 67%
Galveston 69%
Harris 73%
Fort Bend 56%
Honey, if these numbers don’t highly suggest Tom-fatigue, I don’t know what does.
However, a few of my friends suggest it was the robo-calls from County Judge Bob Hebert saying what a perfectly wonderful example of the human species Tom DeLay is that was like roping an anchor on Tom and dropping him off the Brazos River Bridge. It was fun to see that the lobbyist-owned cronies stick together flies and roadkill when the votes are down, Honey.
And before the members of the Republican 101st Fighting Keyboard Brigade, who majored in political science in college rather than real science, get their typing fingers going faster than their brains and say, “Yeah, but a whole bunch more people voted in the GOP primary than the Democratic primary, stop. No, I’m serious. Stop. You are embarrassing yourself. In my 25 years in this county, I have never seen so many crossover votes. Never.
And then I know some Democrats who sat at home so they could sign Strayhorn’s petition. Tee hee hee.
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March 8 – Vanity Fair has such a delightful picture this month!
And according to the Drudge Report, Jack says of his friend Tom,
Abramoff has “admired Tom DeLay and his family from the first meeting with him,” he tells Margolick. “We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk about golf,” Abramoff recalls. “I mean, we talked about philosophy and politics.”
Well, obviously all that Bible talk was about ecleastical loopholes. Lemme see, the Bible and philosophy … hummm … Machiavelli and Judas? Or maybe 10 pieces of silver and the social contract? Look, you guys talked about backswings, wild wimmen, and how to rip off Indians. We ain’t buying that opera crapola either.
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March 8 – In a stunning move of political courage in the 21st Century reflecting our growth as a community, Fort Bend Republicans got together last night and elected an entire ticket of …. prepare yourselves for a shocker …. white male candidates. We’re so proud of them for this courageous act in a community they like to say “celebrates diversity.†We suspect that celebration even includes Margaritas on Cinco de Mayo and an occasional trip to Thai Cottage for some of that there spicy stuff. Going further than that with this whole “diversity†thing seems a bit overboard to them.
The only females who won were in races where only females ran, or where females were removed from the ballot. Whoop te Stinkin’-I-Am-Woman-Hear-Me-Roar doo.
In all honesty, there are some females in the run-offs, however all three of them came in second place. I’ve got a perfectly good ten dollar bill American legal tender money that says none of the three of them will win the run off.
Roy Cordes and Bud Childers, both Crony-Good-Ole-Boy Hall of Famers, will go up against Carolyn McDaniel and Nina Schaefer. It don’t take a degree in meteorology to figure out which way the wind is blowing in those races. Linda Howell won’t win the GOP party chairman race because Eric Thode will pull out all stops to keep his chubby little finger in Fort Bend politics.
Now I know the Republican will respond with pride that they have Annie Rebecca Elliott on the ticket, who used to be Annie Morales and then Annie Jalamo before she became Annie Elliott and a Republican. Her primary campaign signs or literature never mentioned her “other†names. And, least we not forget, her incumbent opponent was kicked off the ballot. I mean, think about it – it takes a court order to get a minority on the local Republican ticket.
Run-off is April 11th. I know this is courageous on my part, but I’m predicting an all fluffy white male Republican ticket!
I’ll have some pictures from yesterday to put online when I find my camera, so check back to see if I got one of you.
And, I just need to say one thing to the Boys at the Herald Texas Coaster Fort Bend Strayhorn Cougar Mellencamp Newspaper — snicker, snicker, tee hee, snicker. Check Dianne Wilson’s numbers, Boys, she led the ticket, again. You need to surrender. You’ve been fighting her for 15 years and she’s whooped you so bad that your grandchildren will be born shaking.
Oh yeah, before I forget, I got a call late last night saying that Hegar beat Gates because I was so successful at distracting Gates’ paid political consultant. I think they’re gonna send me $10 or something for my help. Not necessary; proud to do it.
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March 7 – There’s an election eve tradition of going to all the polls late at night and putting up signs for your favorite candidate. It’s probably a waste of time, effort, trees, and metal wire, but if your opponent does it, you have to, too. Also, it’s become a social event in Fort Bend. You see some of the same people every election and swap election stories.
Here’s a shot from the George Library last night about 10:00 of both Democrats and Republicans putting up signs –
And a shot of Bob Wilson taking a break –
And then there’s always the candidate who breaks the unwritten rule of never putting your sign in front of someone else’s sign –
Roy, I knew you didn’t want people to think that you simply got meaner when you turned Republican, or that your manners got left in Sugar Land, so – in front of witnesses – I personally removed your sign at the County Annex in Rosenberg and took it home to my garage for safekeeping until you can come pick it up. You’re very welcome.
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March 7 – You can spent tonight watching election returns with Tom Campbell, Nick Lampson, Mike Fjeltand, or Pat Baig for free. You DeLay voters will have to cough-up at $500 and a plane ticket to DeeCee — that’s IF you got an invitation, of course.
DeLay’s toughest primary challenger, attorney Tom Campbell, criticized the congressman’s election night plans.
“I think it’s amazingly ironic and callous he would be spending election night with a group of lobbyists,” Campbell said. “I don’t think he understands how unhappy constituents are with what appears to be a trade of principle for power.”
Entry to the fundraiser costs $1,000, $2,500 and $5,000 for political action committees and $500, $1,000 and $2,100 for individuals, according to an event invitation.
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March 6 – They’re gonna put me in the movies; they’re gonna make a big star out of me. Thanks to Deb for the heads-up and new Tom DeLay theme song!
The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress. Coming to a living room near you.
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March 6 – Guys – in a break from normal, I will not be posting election results here on election night as I have done for the past …. oh, I dunno, century or so.
Bob Dunn will have results on his website. It’ll be a lot fancier, but most importantly it will allow me to attend parties on election night.
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March 6 – The Dallas Morning News has better coverage of the DeLay GOP primary today than the Chronicle does.
I agree with Dr. Richard Murray – DeLay will win the primary, but if he wins with less than 60%, he’s hurtin’ and that’s why he’s hidin’ out on election night. Bob Dunn predicts 57% (and has some fun with local politicos).
I got a mailout from DeLay saying that Democrats were voting in the Republican primary for his opponent. That ain’t happening. Crossover Democrats are voting for DeLay. Reason? Well, when Republicans want to raise money, they holler, “Abortion!” or “Flag burning!” or “Consenting adults are doing nasty things in their bedrooms and won’t let you watch!” When Democrats want to raise money, they simply say, “Tom DeLay.” They don’t even have to holler.
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March 5 – The newspaper all over the country are filled with Tom DeLay stories. Here’s some of my favorites.
The Dallas Morning News has a dilly. Oops, caught again fibbing about the lobbyists.
DeLay spokeswoman Shannon Flaherty said Mr. DeLay won’t campaign publicly this weekend. For election night, “he’s going to be in D.C.; he’s got votes.”
It turns out Ms. Flaherty wasn’t telling the whole story. Mr. DeLay will be with high-dollar donors, at a fundraiser hosted by lobbyists Susan Molinari and Bill Paxon, spouses who met as fellow House members. The Wall Street Journal first caught wind of the event, which suggests that Mr. DeLay views campaign cash as a more urgent necessity than excitement.
The Seattle Times isn’t any kinder.
“I expect him to make it through the primary fairly handily, but my sense of this is that DeLay is in trouble over the course of this election cycle,” said Cal Jillson, a political-science professor at Southern Methodist University.
The Winston-Salem Journal even headlined the story using the words “tough time,” and quoting more of DeLay’s opponent than DeLay. That’s gotta get under DeLay craw.
“Mr. DeLay is unelectable and Republicans in our district have a choice. They can either elect a conservative that doesn’t carry the baggage Mr. DeLay carries or one that Nick Lampson has the ability to beat,” Campbell said.
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March 4 – You know, you gotta be some kind of ungrateful jerk not to spend election night with the people who elected you. Oh wait, we’re talking about Tom DeLay….
He [DeLay] will spend Tuesday evening at a fundraiser hosted by husband and wife Bill Paxon and Susan Molinari, who served together in Congress before becoming lobbyists.
I guess the citizens of Fort Bend County should get ourselves a lobbyist so maybe we could get Tom to visit us.
Also from the ABC article:
Non-partisan political analyst Stu Rothenberg tells ABC News that it’s “not impossible” that DeLay will be forced into a run-off against Republican Tom Campbell, his strongest rival. Texas law mandates a runoff if no candidate gets 50 percent plus one. If necessary, the runoff would be held April 11.
A Primary Win Won’t Be End to DeLay’s Troubles
Assuming DeLay gets through the primary, Rothenberg thinks DeLay is in “huge trouble” come November. The Rothenberg Political Report rates DeLay as one of the 10 most vulnerable House incumbents in the country. The Democratic nominee will be Nick Lampson, a well-financed former member of Congress.
Kinda makes you wonder if Tom is hiding out in DeeCee for the hot tubs and champagne, or if he’s just hiding out.
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March 3 – I have always had a problem with “endorsement†lists. Let’s say you have three people on your endorsement list. One of them is going to say you didn’t have permission to use his name, another of them is somebody who has hacked-off the entire youth baseball league and you didn’t know about that, and the third is …. oops, a convicted felon on probation?
State Senate Candidate Gary Gates, a man who has more baggage than the average bus station, sent out a double-sided four-page fold-out mail-out listing about 2,000 people who he claims support him in his district. The Fort Bend County section of those names include several very liberal Democrats (with no one else in the county registered with the same name) and one rather shocking endorsement … a man currently serving a ten year probated sentence for assault on a police officer, after having been to The Big House.
Yeah, it’s the same guy. There’s only one Curtis Ray Lucas registered to vote in the county, and he’s the Mental Health Poster Child for Richmond. It was in all the papers. Honey, we had to hire another village idiot while Rev. Curtis was in the pokey.
… The Rev. Curtis Lucas of Richmond’s Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church was released from custody as well after reading his own letter of apology. He was sentenced Aug. 25 to two years in prison for biting the finger of Richmond Police Officer David Evans during a scuffle Lucas instigated on Sept. 17, 2003. After Lucas served 40 days of his sentence, Culver released him, but placed him on 10 years’ probation.
Lucas’s wife, Mary, also endorses Gates. Hey, at least she can vote for him. Rev. Curtis has his voter registration temporarily …. uh, on hold.
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March 3 – Finally, some real investigative reporting about campaign finance ….
July 13th, 2006 at 10:01 pmIf you contribute to a candidate, how do you know if the money was spent to get that candidate elected? Investigative reporter Nanci Wilson found out.
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Investigates found they spent thousands of
#70-Cheryl, good post, thank you very much!
And if those Republican lawyers are correct about DeLay’s ‘intent’ being the ‘deciding factor’, GREAT!! His intent was clear when he ran in the primary election. And everything he has done since then has made his intentions glaringly obvious. He is a master at manipulating the ‘rules’ to suit his own agenda, he has done so all of his political life. It’s just finally catching up to him. Throw your ‘hissy’, Tom, you were the ‘decider’ on this one, and you are NOT a Congressman anymore.
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