Court forces DeLay to stay on ballot.
By on Aug 3rd, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Court forces DeLay to stay on ballot.
The Lone Star Project reports, “The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Texas Democrats a short time ago. As a result, Tom DeLay remains eligible for the 2006 general election as the Republican nominee for the 22nd Congressional District of Texas.”
UPDATE: AP has more.
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I forget, is this what Democrats wanted or not? Some want him around to whoop up on, and others don’t want to give him another chance to be an effective congressman.
I guess, since he was doing such a good job as a K street consultant, Dems probably want him back in congress.
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:33 pmDeLay seems these days less an ogre than a historical figure, an old bull behind a high fence, more to be gawked at than feared.
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:35 pm#1
Democrats want DeLay on the ballot because he will lose to the Democratic nominee Nick Lampson in TX-22. Do you really think DeLay could be reelected?
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:38 pmI think it is great to have one of the most corrupt politicians in American history on the ballot to kick around for a few more months.
This is the man who said of the US budget, it has “been trimmed of all fat” under Republican leadership. Delusional, dastardly and dishonest. That’s Delay.
-GSD
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:47 pmDeLay is the face of GOP corruption and a constant reminder of Jack Abramoff’s influence on GOP politics. Just ask Ralph Reed. DeLay won’t debate, campaign, or make any public appearances where there may be any chance of him having to answer any questions about his corrupt practices–save ass-kissing sessions on FOX and Hardball. Recall that DeLay stepped down in shame from his seat in congress because he knows he is wrong–not because he didn’t want to “drag his family through another campaign.”
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:48 pmjason,
bill clinton did it.
democrats are evil.
you are a genius.
there; you can relax now.
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:56 pmSo what happens to all the campaign contibutions ol’ Tom thought he was going to get to keep for his own personal use?
Will he be forced to use them for campaigning now?
August 3rd, 2006 at 2:59 pmLooking forward to another CA-50 outcome ….
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:03 pmI am going to as Lampsons campaign to mention abramoff, Delay and all his buddies as much as possible. JD Hayworth (AZ) is at the top of my shit list!
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:05 pmthe whole reason Delay removed himself from the run, is he did not feel he could win re-election. He barely sqeeked through in his primary against a republican opponent. He knows that it is not a sure win for the republicans, even in his hand drawn district.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:06 pmEven if(big if) he wins, he will be brought up on his charges soon and he might go to jail. That would be a nice sight to see, another Repuglican Congressman sent to the pokey. To me this election in Texas is a win-win. Priceless.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 pmDelay will win re-election, Swarzneggar will be elected in California, The Republicans will pick up seats in both the House and Senate, and Jeb Bush will be sworn in in January 2009, Diebold baby, Diebold. Man is sure sucks being an anti-republican.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:10 pmExcept for or Demcorats in congress, for them it is great.
DeLay will have a hell of a time explaining to his “people” in Texas why he, as an indicted sitting congressman, did a “cut and run” to settle in Washington DC to lobby on behalf of GOP causes. DeLay is a disgrace and he resigned in shame.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:11 pmAfter Delay wins he will find a way to get off the hook and it will be business as usual
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:11 pmThere you are Jason, I thought you’d be on the other threads defending Rumsfeld. As for DeLay, it’s a win win for anybody other than the necons. If he gets off the ballot then he’s off. If he stays on then his criminal investigations stay in the limelight and even if he wins the election his having to step down a 2nd time would be even more fun to watch.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:18 pmDeLay can still appeal. That should eat up at least another three or four weeks. That doesn’t leave much time for Tom or his replacement to get anything going, though. What a shame.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:25 pmI guess Delay will have to go back to Washtington then. Liberal Lampson will never beat him in Sugarland.
Harry Reid took almost $60k worth of Abramoff related money. And he refuses to give it back. Patrick Kennedy is driving around drunk going for votes at 2am, and Cynthia McKinney is slugging police officers with cell phones. William Jefferson has $80k stashed in his freezer.
Somebody should remind the liberal party that those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The Democrats have a culture of corruption.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:49 pmAs my grandpappy used to say. “If you dig a hole deep enough. It becomes a grave.”
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:50 pm#17 I’ll remind you to clean your own house before criticizing mine.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:55 pmthe difference is Mr. Big the dems clean up their corruption. The republicans delight in it.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:56 pmAs long as ‘ol Rep. Tom “Culture of Corruption” DeLay remains on the ballot, he will successfully remind the voters of his serious lack of ethical standards that the elected Republicans have allowed to permeate their party. Of course, many of the citizens of his district are blinded to this. Never underestimate the ability of people to lie to themselves!
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:59 pm#8 – You mean you want there to be irregularities in the vote that will be challenged (and possibly overturned) in court later? And here I thought you were all for elections in which there are no irregularities. Go figure. . . .
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm#17
Harry Reid took almost $60k worth of Abramoff related money. And he refuses to give it back. Patrick Kennedy is driving around drunk going for votes at 2am, and Cynthia McKinney is slugging police officers with cell phones. William Jefferson has $80k stashed in his freezer.
“Abramoff related money”? You mean one of Abramoff’s clients gave him money. That’s not the same thing as Abramoff’s money or Abramoff-directed contributions. In fact, of the four, you only got the last one right, except the dollar amount is a little off.
You can wish that there was as much Democratic corruption as Republican, but it ain’t even close. Trust me, you don’t want to go there.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:10 pmThe fools! They ARE going to appeal it:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/DeLay_to_appeal_to_Supreme_Court_0803.html
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:12 pm#17
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:16 pmReid did not take money from Abramhoff. It was from his constituents. They were also clients of Jack. Imagine people playing both parties. The Cyntia think while stupid and idiotic pales in comparison. Kennedy while again stupid and idiotic, hurt no one, admitted his mistakes and is seeking help. More than can be said for Repugs in trouble. So there is Jefferson. Stupid, greedy, idiotic and illegal. I say get try him and if guilty lock him up. One really bad apple so far. How many Repugs are in jail or on their way? How many Repugs were found guilty during Reagan’s era and were pardoned and still have power in the party. Republicans are led by crooks and felons and it trickled down through the party.
I guess Delay will have to go back to Washtington then. Liberal Lampson will never beat him in Sugarland.
Except DeLay redrew his district to include some liberal areas, so the folks in Sugarland may find themselves outvoted.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:27 pm#12 you are right about Diebold BUT that only allows them to cheat selectively…. when its a 52/48 split its easy to cheat and swap the numbers.. but if things go so badly for them that the exit polling discrepancy is too big to “explainify” away, thats where the dems could win… so yes,,, it is possible to beat them, but only if they are beaten badly, which is still up in the air..
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:30 pm#10 - He barely sqeeked through in his primary against a republican opponent.
Actually, he garnered 62% of the vote, compared to his closest challenger Tom Campbell, who fell just short of 30%. I hardly think a 2 to 1 vote can be characterized as “barely squeaking” by.
He knows that it is not a sure win for the republicans, even in his hand drawn district.
I would dispute the facts of this as well. When the districts were redrawn in 2003, DeLay actually made his seat less secure in order to make a neighboring district more Republican.
Let’s be honest – TX-22 is a solidly Republican district, voting for Bush in the 2004 election 64% to 35%. Even had the Republican candidate’s name not appeared on the ballot, Larry Sabato still favored a Republican victory.
There’s no doubt this is a toss-up race now, but in the end, it would be hard to defeat a Republican dog in TX-22, and DeLay can’t be considered much worse.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:40 pmDelay claimed he couldn’t run again because he had moved to Virginia and didn’t live in Texas any more. How will THAT look to the folks in Sugarland? He’s not just a crook and a maniacal power-grubber but a traitor to his homeland.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:53 pmI only want to see Delay in one seat and it is in the basement in Huntsville. And for all those watching I was just joking.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:54 pm#29 – All DeLay has to say is “activist liberal judges are forcing me back into this race” and “do you want a Democrat to represent you in Congress?” at the same time he mobilizes his amazing GOTV campaign and the race is over.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:00 pmKrazny said, “the difference is Mr. Big the dems clean up their corruption. The republicans delight in it.”
Last I saw, McKinney, Jefferson, Reid, and Kennedy all refused to resign from office. The Democrats really haven’t cleaned up their corruption.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:17 pm#31 – Not necessarily. All his opponents have to do is say “Rep. Delay decided to cut & run after you, the voters of District 22, selected him as your Republican candidate. In fact, he fought a court battle to NOT be your candidate, spending more of your political donations to NOT be on the ballot. Do you want a man who’s going to lie about representing you and then using your re-election donations to fight a legal battle to get out of having to serve the Republican party?”
Then again, we are talking about partisan Republican citizens, so they’ll forget all about the lack of ethics and illegal behavior once they are told to do so.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:19 pm#33 – Then again, we are talking about partisan Republican citizens, so they’ll forget all about the lack of ethics and illegal behavior once they are told to do so.
And there’s no such thing as partisan Democrat voters?
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:21 pmSurprise! Surprise! Which is what I won’t be if the idiots in Sugarland re-elect DeLay. These folks don’t care what you do as a crook just as long as you know the “codes” that say, I don’t like minorities, I do not have progressive religious beliefs, I want women to stay in their place (which is where ever I say it is.) and we have a right to be corrupt WASP if we wannabe. They might just re-elect Tom and continue supporting the war in Iraq and thnking Repugs are great! Against their own best intrest. God help us!
TexasJuice.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:24 pmLets see Mckinney apologized, Kennedy got help and aplogized, I could be wrong but jefferson will soon be up on charges, and was forced to resign from the committees he chaired. the thing about reid turns out was untrue. anyother crap you would like to sling?
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:24 pmKrazny, it’s not crap what those Democrats did. It’s such a problem for Pelosi that she seemed to have dropped the culture of corruption theme she was running on, according to Roll Call.
Don’t forget there is Allan Mollohan, and John Conyers who are also involved in alleged ethical problems as well. Face it, the Culture of Corruption thing could be applied to the Democrat party too, my friend.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:28 pmRachel said, “He’s not just a crook and a maniacal power-grubber but a traitor to his homeland.”
lol, ok?
I have to disagree with you there. He’s just an elected official, or was anyway. Just doing his job trying to keep his party in power, just as the Democrats are trying to do. And he will probably go back to Washington because he knows how to win.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:32 pmLet the Virginian stay in the race. It keeps his sorrid charges in the limlight. Really Mr. Big, this administration is far from clean. Frist, Ney, Boner (I know but …), Rove, Libby and the list goes on. They’ve had 5 years now and what do we have to show for it? Bin Laden, nope. Secure Borders? not even close. How about a Free and Democratic Iraq? right….. Face it, they had the power and these lofty ideals and they blew it. Lied to all of us after they got the key to the bathroom. Good thing the pendulum swings. Hopefully lessons can truly be learned.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:35 pmJustanaboserver said, “Really Mr. Big, this administration is far from clean. Frist, Ney, Boner (I know but …), Rove, Libby and the list goes on.”
And of course I can bring up Jefferson, Kennedy, McKinney, Reid, Mollohan, and Conyers. We can go back and forth like this forever. Both parties have people in them who are ethically challenged. That is why Pelosi has seemingly dropped her culture of corruption theme. It wasn’t working, because there are Dems who fit that description as well.
August 3rd, 2006 at 5:53 pm[...] UPDATE: AP has more. Source: Court forces DeLay to stay on ballot. - Think [Feed] [...]
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:02 pm#37 Mr. Big
Don’t forget there is Allan Mollohan, and John Conyers who are also involved in alleged ethical problems as well. Face it, the Culture of Corruption thing could be applied to the Democrat party too, my friend.
You’re slinging around a lot of crap and innuendo. And more crap. Mollohan is the one who made the Republicans reverse the rule they passed that would have let an indicted majority leader (DeLay) keep his seat. Hefley (R-CO) defended him and said he would have done the same thing. The Republicans don’t want ethical people on the Ethics Committee. That’s why DeLay had Hefley removed.
There’s a world of difference between a few individuals acting on their own behalf and the network of corruption that permeates the Republican party. The K Street Project: the big pay-to-play scheme that DeLay and the Republicans forced on lobbyists. They put the squeeze on lobbyists and demanded payment for legislative favors and earmarks. It was DeLay’s idea to refuse to do business with lobbyists who were Democrats or who had any dealings with Democrats. So that really shut out the Democrats from being in a position to be bribed. They just don’t have the clout.
Just for starters, rather than me read all this stuff off to you, take a look at the sidebar on the right of this page, underneath Think Progress Highlights. Click on DeLay’s Dirty (Baker’s) Dozen. Tell me who on the Democratic side even comes close to that level of sleaze. If that’s not enough, you can google Bob Ney, Katherine Harris, Richard Pombo, Virgil Goode, John Doolittle, Roy Blunt, and John Boehner along with the word “corrupt”. Let me know when you’re through with those and I’ll give you some more.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:02 pmJimb said, “There’s a world of difference between a few individuals acting on their own behalf and the network of corruption that permeates the Republican party.”
There is no network of corruption that permeates the Republican party. It is not crimianl to be a Republican. You may think it is, but just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it so. There are bad apples in both parties. To try to say that this is not so is pure denial. This my party good, your party bad stuff is just silly. Take a look at how Harry Reid, John Murtha, and Maxine Waters allegedly used their positions of power to help their family members monetarily. There are bad apples in both parties. The culture of corruption thing wasn’t working for Pelosi, so she dropped the theme.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:11 pm.
Now that Lampson doesn’t need your money, why not Adopt-A-Sign from the local Democratic club in DeLay’s district? It’s a 53% GOP area on the edge of turning of blue, and the grassroots could use your help. For $10, they’ll put up a sign for you and send you a picture of it.
http://www.brazosriver.com/adopt…/ adoptasign.htm
You’ll certainly spend $10 on less important things this week…So help out some grassroots Dems to make up for all that Exxon gas you bought.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm#40
And of course I can bring up Jefferson, Kennedy, McKinney, Reid, Mollohan, and Conyers.
Here’s what you’ve got for Democrats:
Jefferson – likely bribery charges
Kennedy – nothing
McKinney – nothing
Reid – nothing
Mollohan – nothing
Conyers – nothing
Compared to Republicans:
Cunningham – convicted
Safavian – convicted
Abramoff – convicted
Taft – convicted
Allen – convicted
Tobin – convicted
Scanlon – pled guilty
Volz – pled guilty
Wade – pled guilty
Libby – indicted
DeLay – indicted
Fletcher – indicted
Noe – indicted
Colyandro – indicted
Ellis – indicted
Ney – unindicted co-conspirator
Buckham – unindicted co-conspirator
Some of the names you may not recognize. They’re co-conspirators with DeLay, Ney, etc. who are cooperating with investigators right now. They’re helping to build cases against several more Republicans in Congress. And, I’m not listing the ones who are just under investigation.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:24 pm“Culture of corruption” Applies to all of DC, corruption in DC is like oxygen to the rest of us.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:25 pmSorry for the bad URL….That’s:
http://www.brazosriver.com/adoptasign.htm
Thanks to anyone who helps!
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:25 pmJimb said: “Kennedy – nothing
McKinney – nothing
Reid – nothing
Mollohan – nothing
Conyers – nothing”
How in the world do you figure that? It is nothing to you because they are Democrats? That’s silly.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:30 pmThanks for the update! I will have to send some money to Tom today. Will you guys get angry when he is re-elected? I hear TX-22 uses Diebold machines that are only guarded by members of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:33 pm#43
There is no network of corruption that permeates the Republican party. It is not crimianl to be a Republican.
Look at the court documents. Do a little research. Look at all the Republicans working together. Look at the web that stretches from DeLay to Buckham and Rudy and Scanlon and Abramoff, to Reed, to the Marianas and forced prostitution and slave labor, to Ney and Volz, to HAVA, to Russian oil mafia and Russian banks, to Alexander Strategy Group and KORUSEC and the Heritage Foundation and the Malaysian government, and on and on it goes. That’s one web. Then there’s the one with Cunningham, Mitchell Wade and Brent Wilkes and MZM, to Katherine Harris and Virgil Goode, to Kyle “Dusty” Foggo and Porter Goss, to poker parties and hookers, to Shirlington Limo run by a career criminal with a DHS contract, and there’s more to that one, too. Shall we talk about messing around with elections? Tobin and phone-jamming? Sproul Associates and bogus voter registrations? Noe and his wife working Ohio?
It’s not criminal to be a Republican. But, it’s expected of you.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:47 pm#48
How in the world do you figure that? It is nothing to you because they are Democrats? That’s silly.
Tell me what they are if not nothings. Be specific. And don’t embellish.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:50 pm#49
Thanks for the update! I will have to send some money to Tom today.
Why? Isn’t your toilet working?
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:51 pmJimb, you know what they did. McKinney slugged a cop. Jefferson had $80k in his freezer. Reid accepted $$$Abramoff related money and did actions favorable to his clients. Kennedy drove drunk and crashed his car and pled guilty to DUI. Ted Kennedy drove a woman off a bridge. These are all examples of ethically challenged behavior of Democrats, and the reason Pelosi’s charges of only a Republican culture of corruption didn’t stick. There are bad apples in both parties.
August 3rd, 2006 at 6:56 pmYou know I was thinking of another political party that loved only having one candidate on the ballot. Oh that’s right this was the way things were done in the Soviet Union and Iraq. So the democrats have progressed themselves into the Communist and Bathist parties (golf clap).
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:11 pmRRS,
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:38 pmWhat argument are you trying to make? The Dems sued to KEEP him on the ballot, dumbass. Try reading the entire TP post before opening your mouth and inserting your whole leg.
“Mmffph, mmmffph, mmmhhff!”
“Activist liberal judges” may well have forced poor old Tom DeLay back into the race, but it was corruption, Abramoff, and shame that forced him to resign his seat in disgrace.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:39 pm#53 Mr. Big
McKinney slugged a cop. Jefferson had $80k in his freezer. Reid accepted $$$Abramoff related money and did actions favorable to his clients. Kennedy drove drunk and crashed his car and pled guilty to DUI. Ted Kennedy drove a woman off a bridge.
See, that’s what I meant about embellishing. Cynthia McKinney did not “slug” a cop. The only thing to say about Jefferson, besides that he is most likely guilty of accepting a bribe, is that a) he didn’t work in coordination with other Democrats and b) his fellow Democratic congressmen asked him to step down from his seat on the House Ways and Means Committee. If he were a Republican, he would probably have been protected, like they did with DeLay.Patrick Kennedy was not drunk. He admitted to having an addiction to pain killers and went into rehab. Ted Kennedy? It’s going on forty years pretty soon. If you’re not going to give that one a rest, I think we need to start talking about Laura Bush running over and killing her ex-boyfriend. And her husband’s desertion during time of war and his cocaine habit are fair game, too.
Aside from all that, you’re completely ignoring the rampant Republican corruption. You haven’t said anything about it. The disparity between the number of bad players on the Dems’ side and those on the GOP side is monstrous. There’s simply no comparison.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 pm55. good slam. RRS changes his arguments just to stay angry. You know RRS I was thinking about a party that wanted to promise america a change. I believe they had a contract. Whatever happend to them? Oh that’s right, they were hijacked.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:57 pm#54
You know I was thinking of another political party that loved only having one candidate on the ballot. Oh that’s right this was the way things were done in the Soviet Union and Iraq. So the democrats have progressed themselves into the Communist and Bathist parties
Oh, I see. The Democrats are to blame for DeLay’s resignation and his trying to game the system by pretending to run for re-election and then changing his mind after winning the primary so he could use his campaign funds for his legal defense. Did I get that right? And it’s the Democrats’ fault that the chair of the Texas Republican party mistakenly said that DeLay was ineligible to run in Texas? How do you think the Dems pulled it off? Did they bribe the chair? Bribe the judges? They had to have done something, because Lord knows the Republicans couldn’t be responsible for doing something wrong and stupid to screw themselves over.
Soviet Union and Iraq. Helluva spin there. What? Nazi Germany is passe now?
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:09 pmForcing DeLay to stay on the ballot is kind of risky, because the brain-dead Texans might re-elect him to the House, so far better for his filthy name to be left off the ballot!
August 3rd, 2006 at 11:42 pm#34 – I never said that. But then again, this is a post about Republicans, so why should I harp about Democrat partisans in a Republican post?
I recall that the regressives used to harp about Democrat partisans and progressives would always point to Republican partisans, then the regressives would say “Why are you changing the topic!?!?”
August 4th, 2006 at 8:27 am